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Ruth Gassman

  • Executive Director, Indiana Prevention Resource Center
  • Associate Professor, Applied Health Science Department

Education:

  • Ph.D. at Rutgers University, 1995
  • M.A. at University of Iowa
  • B.S. at University of Iowa

Contact Information:

(812) 855-1237
[send e-mail]
501 N Morton Street, Suite 110

Background:

  • Postdoctoral research fellowship in public health at the University of California, Berkeley

  • Grant, Predictors of Screening and Brief Intervention, NIAAA R29 AA11713

  • Project Director for Indiana State Treatment Needs Assessment Project

  • Former Associate Scientist, Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research, Indiana University, Dept. of Sociology

  • Experience as a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clinician

  • Certified Prevention Professional Through the Indiana Association of Prevention Professionals

Ruth Gassman
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Research:

Alcohol and drug health services, including screening and brief intervention for drug and alcohol abuse, evaluation of services, and education of health care professionals.

Publications:

Agley, J. & Gassman, R. (2008). A state based model of prevention: Indiana's example. Health Promotion Practice, 9(2), 199-204.

Gassman, R. A. (2007). Practitioner-level predictors of alcohol problem detection and management activities. Journal of Substance Use, 12(3), 191-202.

Gassman, R. A. & Weisner, C. (2005). Community providers' views of alcohol and drug problems. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 5(4), 101-115.

Babor, T. F., Higgins-Biddle, J. C., Higgins, P. S., Gassman, R. A. & Gould, B. E. (2004). Training medical providers to conduct alcohol screening and brief intervention. Substance Abuse, 25(1), 17-26.

Gassman, R. A. (2003). Medical specialization, profession, and mediating beliefs that predict stated likelihood of alcohol screening and brief intervention: Targeting educational interventions. Substance Abuse, 24(3), 141-156.

Gassman, Ruth A., Demone, Harold W., & Wechsler, Henry (2002, August). College students' drinking: master's in social work compared with undergraduate students. Health & Social Work, 27(3), 184.

Gassman, R. A., Demone, H. W., Albilal, R. (2001). Alcohol and other drug content in core courses: Encouraging substance abuse assessment. Journal of Social Work Education, 37(1), 137-145.

Gassman, Ruth A. (1997). Social work student characteristics and their views of alcoholic clients: Designing educational interventions. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 42(2), 19-31

Courses Recently Taught:

HPER H318 Drug Use in American Society