United States Department of Veterans Affairs
United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Center for Health Care Evaluation

CHCE Investigators

Christine Timko, Ph.D.

Christine Timko, Ph.D.

Brief Bio

  • Associate Director, VA HSR&D Center for Health Care Evaluation
  • Research Career Scientist, VA HSR&D
  • Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • MS, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research Interests

  • Facilitating continuing care and 12-step self-help group participation
  • Quality of care in substance abuse and psychiatric treatment
  • Course of treated and untreated substance use disorders and treatment careers
  • Impact of substance abuse and psychiatric disorders on the family

 

Publications

Timko, C., DeBenedetti, A., & Billow, R. (under review). Characteristics of homeless veterans who choose not to use housing services. American Journal of Community Psychology.
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Timko, C., DeBenedetti, A., & Billow, R. (2006). Intensive referral to 12-step self-help groups and six-month substance use disorder outcomes. Addiction, 101, 678-688.
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Timko, C., Chen, S., Sempel, J. M, & Barnett, P. G. (2006). Dual diagnosis patients in community or hospital care: 1-year outcomes and health care utilization and costs. Journal of Mental Health, 15, 163-177.
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Timko, C., Billow, R., & DeBenedetti, A. (2006). Determinants of 12-step group affiliation and moderators of the affiliation-abstinence relationship. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 83, 111-121.
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Chen, S., Barnett, P. G., Sempel, J. M., & Timko, C. (2006). Outcomes and costs of matching the intensity of dual diagnosis treatment to patients’ symptom severity. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 31, 95-105.
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Timko, C., Finney, J. W., & Moos, R. H. (2005). >The 8-year course of alcohol abuse: Gender differences in social context and coping. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29, 612-621.
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Timko, C., Dixon, K., & Moos, R. H. (2005). Treatment for dual diagnosis patients in the psychiatric and substance abuse systems. Mental Health Services Research, 7, 229-242.
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Timko, C., & Sempel, J. M. (2004). Intensity of acute services, self-help attendance, and 1-year outcomes among dual diagnosis patients. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65, 274-282.
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Timko, C. & Sempel, J. M. (2004). Short-term outcomes of matching dual diagnosis patients’ symptom severity to treatment intensity. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 26, 209-218.
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Timko, C., Sempel, J. M., & Moos, R. H. (2003). Models of standard and intensive outpatient care in substance abuse and psychiatric treatment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 30, 417-436.
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Timko, C., Lesar, M., Calvi, N., & Moos, R. H. (2003). Trends in acute mental health care: Comparing psychiatric and substance abuse treatment programs. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 30, 145-160.
Timko, C., Moos, R. H., Finney, J. W., & Connell, E. G. (2002). Gender differences in help-seeking and the 8-year course of alcohol abuse. Addiction, 97, 877-889.
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Timko, C., & Moos, R. H. (2002). Symptom severity, amount of treatment, and 1-year outcomes among dual diagnosis patients. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 30, 35-54.
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Timko, C., Cronkite, R. C., Berg, E., & Moos, R. H. (2002). Children of parents with unipolar depression: A comparison of stably remitted, partially remitted, and nonremitted parents and nondepressed controls. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 32, 165-185.
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Timko, C., Yu, K., & Moos, R. H. (2000). Demand characteristics of residential substance abuse treatment programs. Journal of Substance Abuse, 12, 387-403.
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Timko, C., Moos, R. H., Finney, J. W., & Lesar, M. D. (2000). Long-term outcomes of alcohol use disorders: Comparing untreated individuals with those in Alcoholics Anonymous and formal treatment. Journal of Studies Alcohol, 61, 529-540.
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Timko, C., Lesar, M., Engelbrekt, M., & Moos, R.H. (2000). Changes in services and structure among residential substance abuse treatment facilities. Psychiatric Services, 51, 494-498.
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Timko, C., Kaplowitz, M. S., & Moos, R. H. (2000). Children’s health and child-parent relationships as predictors of problem drinking parents’ long-term adaptation. Journal of Substance Abuse, 11, 103-121.

 

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