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Steven Belenko is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with a substantial number of publications addressing general health professions and epidemiology. Other subfields include clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as economics and econometrics.

Research topics covered extensively by Steven Belenko include health policy implementation science, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and community health and development. Additional key topics involve child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, opioid use disorder treatment, mental health and patient involvement, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Angela A. Robertson
  • Danica K. Knight
  • Katherine S. Elkington
  • Faye S. Taxman
  • Michael L. Dennis

Steven Belenko's work is often published in several recurrent venues, including:

  • Health & Justice
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
  • CrimRxiv

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Using structured implementation interventions to improve referral to substance use treatment among justice-involved youth: Findings from a multisite cluster randomized trial", 2022, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • "Augmenting substance use treatment in the drug court: A pilot randomized trial of peer recovery support", 2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • "The Missing Link(age): Multilevel Contributors to Service Uptake Failure Among Youths on Community Justice Supervision", 2021, Psychiatric Services

Other notable recent papers include works authored by collaborators but relevant to the shared field of study such as "The comparative effectiveness of Core versus Core+Enhanced implementation strategies in a randomized controlled trial to improve substance use treatment receipt among justice-involved youth" (2022, BMC Health Services Research) and "Using implementation interventions and peer recovery support to improve opioid treatment outcomes in community supervision: Protocol" (2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment).

Best Publications

  • Research on drug courts: a critical review 2001 update

    Steven Belenko

  • Estimating drug treatment needs among state prison inmates

    Steven Belenko;Jordon Peugh

  • Alcohol, drugs and sexual function: a review.

    Jordon Peugh;Steven Belenko

  • Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment

    Faye S. Taxman;Steven R. Belenko

  • Treating substance use disorders in the criminal justice system.

    Steven Belenko;Matthew Hiller;Leah Hamilton

  • Program Retention and Perceived Coercion in Three Models of Mandatory Drug Treatment

    Douglas Young;Steven Belenko

  • Predicting retention in a residential drug treatment alternative to prison program.

    Michelle A Lang;Steven Belenko

  • The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Services Cascade: A new framework for measuring unmet substance use treatment services needs among adolescent offenders.

    Steven Belenko;Danica Knight;Gail A. Wasserman;Michael L. Dennis

  • Assessing Released Inmates for Substance-Abuse-Related Service Needs

    Steven Belenko

  • The Challenges of Integrating Drug Treatment into the Criminal Justice Process

    Steven Belenko

  • HIV risk behaviors, knowledge, and prevention education among offenders under community supervision: A hidden risk group

    Steven Belenko;Sandra Langley;Susan Crimmins;Michael Chaple

  • The Effects of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders on Institutional Misconduct Among Female Inmates

    Kimberly A. Houser;Steven Belenko;Pauline K. Brennan

  • Delivering more effective treatment to adolescents: Improving the juvenile drug court model

    Steven Belenko;TK Logan

  • THE CHALLENGES OF CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN DRUG TREATMENT COURT SETTINGS

    Steven Belenko

  • Treating adolescent substance abuse problems in the juvenile drug court

    Steven Belenko;Richard Dembo

  • Juvenile Justice—Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS): a cluster randomized trial targeting system-wide improvement in substance use services

    Danica K. Knight;Steven Belenko;Tisha R. A. Wiley;Angela A. Robertson

  • Substance-Involved Women Inmates: Challenges to Providing Effective Treatment

    Jordon Peugh;Steven Belenko

  • Predicting Recidivism for Released State Prison Offenders: Examining the Influence of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics and Spatial Contagion on the Likelihood of Reincarceration

    Gerald J. Stahler;Jeremy Mennis;Steven Belenko;Wayne N. Welsh

  • Crack and the evolution of anti-drug policy

    Steven R. Belenko

  • Drug use and sexually transmitted diseases among female and male arrested youths

    Richard Dembo;Steven Belenko;Kristina Childs;Jennifer Wareham

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Dembo
Richard Dembo University of South Florida
Ken C. Winters
Ken C. Winters Oregon Research Institute
Carl G. Leukefeld
Carl G. Leukefeld University of Kentucky
Paul E. Greenbaum
Paul E. Greenbaum University of South Florida
John K. Cochran
John K. Cochran University of South Florida
Kevin G. Lynch
Kevin G. Lynch University of Pennsylvania
Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Craig E. Henderson
Craig E. Henderson Sam Houston State University
Shannon Gwin Mitchell
Shannon Gwin Mitchell Friends Research Institute
Jessica M. Sales
Jessica M. Sales Emory University

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