ROBERT STOUT

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974. Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Director, Decision Sciences Inst.

Butler Hospital

751-1314, x101

Addictions, mathematical psychology

Mental Health Treatment Outcomes

Major research interests include methods for studying longitudinal patterns in treatment outcome research, multivariate techniques for analyzing changes in symptom patterns over time, advanced uses of interactive computer systems in mental health care delivery systems. In general, we know very little about how mental health treatments affect behavior over extended periods of time, although there is growing evidence that in some situations treatment starts processes of change that continue for many months after the end of formal therapy. Studies that fail to look at long-term outcome patterns may overlook important treatment effects. Similarly, we have scarcely begun to tap the power of computer systems for mental health research, clinical assessment, and long-term case management. Opportunities are available in several on-going studies of alcohol treatment outcome.

Stout, R. L., Rubin, A., Zwick, W., Sywiak, W. & Bellino, L. (1999). Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of alcohol treatment: A rationale for extended case monitoring. Addictive Behaviors 24 (1), 17-35.

Stout, R.L. (in press, 2000). What is a drinking episode? Journal of Studies on Alcohol.