Emeritus, Senior Research Scientist
Graduated Southern Illinois University, 1982
Specialty areas: adolescent treatment; continuing care; development; wide-scale implementation of evidence-based treatments
Dr. Susan H. Godley is an Emeritus Senior Research Scientist at Chestnut Health Systems. Since receiving her Doctorate in 1982 from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, she has served as Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Evaluator, or Project Director on more than 10 studies/projects spanning 25 years, including site PI for the Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) project (TI11321) that was responsible for the development and testing of the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), Co-PI of the Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) experiment (R01-AA010368) that used A-CRA after residential treatment, and PI of the Adolescent Outpatient and Continuing Care Study (AOCCS; R01-DA018183) that evaluated two different types of outpatient treatment with and without continuing care. She is lead author of the A-CRA treatment manual (Godley et al., 2001, 2016) and served as the first Director of Chestnut’s Evidence-Based Treatment (EBTx) Center from 2006 to 2016, which provides A-CRA training, coaching, certification, and technical assistance to provider organization.
Selected Publications:
Godley, S. H., White, W. L., Diamond, G., Passetti, L., & Titus, J. (2001). Therapist reactions to manual-guided therapies for the treatment of adolescent marijuana users. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 405–417. https://doi.org/10.1093/clipsy.8.4.405
Dennis, M. L., Godley, S. H., Diamond, G., Tims, F. M., Babor, T., Donaldson, J., Liddle, H., Titus, J. C., Kaminer, Y., Webb, C., Hamilton, N., & Funk, R. (2004). The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Study: Main Findings from Two Randomized Trials. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 27(3), 193–213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2003.09.005
Godley, S. H., Jones, N., Funk, R., Ives, M., & Passetti, L. L. (2004). Comparing outcomes of best-practice and research-based outpatient treatment protocols for adolescents. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 27(1), 35–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2004.10399722
Godley, S. H., Dennis, M. L., Godley, M. D., & Funk, R. R. (2004). Thirty-month relapse trajectory cluster groups among adolescents discharged from outpatient treatment. Addiction, 99(Suppl. 2), 129–139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00860.x
Godley, S. H., Godley, M. D., Karvinen, T., Slown, L. L., & Wright, K. L. (2006). The Assertive Continuing Care Protocol: A clinician's manual for working with adolescents after residential treatment for alcohol and other substance use disorders (2nd edition). Chestnut Health Systems.
Godley, M. D., Godley, S. H., Dennis, M. L., Funk, R. R., & Passetti, L. L. (2007). The effectiveness of assertive continuing care on continuing care linkage, adherence, and abstinence following residential treatment. Addiction, 102(1), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01648.x
Godley, S. H., Godley, M. D., Wright, K. L., Funk, R. R., & Petry, N. (2008). Contingent reinforcement of personal goal activities for adolescents with substance use disorders during post-residential continuing care. The American Journal on Addictions, 17(4), 278–286. https://doi.org/10.1080/10550490802138798
Godley, S. H., Garner, B. R., Passetti, L. L, Funk, R. R., Dennis, M. L., & Godley, M. D. (2010). Adolescent outpatient treatment and continuing care: Main findings from a randomized clinical trial. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 110(1-2), 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2010.02.003
Godley, S. H., Garner, B. R., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, M. D. (2011). A large-scale dissemination and implementation model. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 18(1), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2850.2011.01236.x
Godley, S. H., Hedges, K., & Hunter, B. (2011). Gender and racial differences in treatment process and outcome among participants in the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 25(1), 143–154. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022179
Garner, B. R., Godley, S. H., Dennis, M. L., Hunter, B. D., Bair, C. M. L., & Godley, M. D. (2012). Using pay-for-performance to improve treatment implementation for adolescent substance use disorders: Results from a cluster randomized experiment. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 166(10), 938–944. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.802
Godley, M. D., Godley, S. H., Dennis, M. L., Funk, R. R., Passetti, L. L., & Petry, N. M. (2014). A randomized trial of Assertive Continuing Care and contingency management for adolescents with substance use disorders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(1), 40–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035264
Godley, S. H., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, M. D. (2016). The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA): A clinical guide for treating substance use disorders. Chestnut Health Systems. The Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach: A Clinical Guide for Treating Substance Use Disorders: Godley RhD, Susan H, Smith PhD, Jane Ellen, Meyers PhD, Robert J, Godley PhD, Mark D: 9780998058009: Amazon.com: Books
Hunter, S. B., Han, B., Slaughter, M. E., Godley, S. H., & Garner, B. R. (2017). Predicting evidence-based treatment sustainment: Results from a longitudinal study of the Adolescent-Community Reinforcement Approach. Implementation Science, 12, 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0606-8
Hunter, S. B., Felician, M., Dopp, A. R., Godley, S. H., Pham, C., Bouskill, K., Slaughter, M. E., & Garner, B. R. (2020). What influences evidence-based treatment sustainment after implementation support ends? A mixed method study of the adolescent-community reinforcement approach. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 113, 107999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.107999
Selected Grants and Contracts:
Principal Investigator: Cannabis Youth Treatment Study Madison County (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 1997–2001)
Principal Investigator: Adolescent Treatment Models—Chestnut Health Systems Bloomington Outpatient Program (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 1999–2002)
Principal Investigator: Persistent Effects of Treatment-Adolescents (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2001–2002)
Co-Principal Investigator: Assertive Aftercare for Youth (National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1997–2008)
Project Director: Strengthening Adolescent Screening, Referral, and Treatment in Central Illinois (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2001–2006)
Principal Investigator: Adolescent Outpatient and Continuing Care Study (National Institutes on Diseases of Addiction, 2004–2009)
Director of Technical Assistance Contract for training and certifying clinicians and clinical supervisor in the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach and Assertive Continuing Care across 15 funded sites in the United States, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment Project (2006–2009)
Director of Technical Assistance Contract for training and certifying clinicians and clinical supervisor in the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach and Assertive Continuing Care for over 40 funded sites in the United States, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Assertive Adolescent and Family Treatment Project (2007–2010)
Appointments and Awards:
Expert Panel for the Washington Circle Subcommittee on Performance Measurement for Care of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders (2005)
The Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE) Research to Evidence-Based Practice 2010 Award (2010)
Related Links:
Susan Harrington Godley Google Scholar