Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 278-293 , April 2009

Do drug treatment services predict reunification outcomes of mothers and their children in child welfare?

  • Christine E. Grella, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute on Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, 1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA. Tel.: +1 310 267 5451; fax: +1 310 473 7885.
    • ,
  • Barbara Needell, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Social Services Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    • ,
  • Yifei Shi, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute on Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA
    • ,
  • Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Semel Institute on Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA

Received 18 December 2007 ,Revised 19 May 2008 ,Accepted 22 June 2008.

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PII: S0740-5472(08)00113-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2008.06.010

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 278-293 , April 2009

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