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MSU Denver Experts Guide
Addictive Behavior/Addictions
Brian Bagwell
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Professor
Expertise: Workplace violence, critical incident stress management, trauma, treating claustrophobic firefighters, and perception of threat and deescalation of violence strategies for first responders, employers and mental health clinicians.
Annie Butler
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Chair and Professor, Director of the Center for High Risk Youth Studies
Expertise: Ethics, LGBTQ issues, High-risk adolescents and youth, Gang issues, Gang culture, Gang indoctrination, Transition from gang life, Addictions and recovery, Drugs and school districts, Underage drinking, Addictions (Substance abuse and behavioral addictions such as gambling and sex), Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (a trauma therapy), Grief, Domestic violence, Dating violence, Multicultural
Larry Curry
Department: Social Work
Title: Retired Faculty
Expertise: Child and family preservation, Addictive behaviors, Child welfare
Scott DeMuro
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Professor Emeritus
Expertise: Addictions and treatment
Anne Hatcher
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Professor Emerita
Expertise: Alcohol and drug addiction, Counseling substance abusers, Nutrition and addiction, Pharmacology of drugs and alcohol, Ethics in addiction counseling
Travis Heath
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Associate Professor
Expertise: Anything psychology: Addiction, Relationships, Therapeutic change, Psychopathology, Sex and gender, Sports psychology, Communication, etc.
Tricia Hudson-Matthew
Department: Human Services and Counseling
Title: Associate Professor and Director, Center for Addiction Studies
Expertise: Mental health, domestic violence, self-esteem, addiction and substance abuse, motivational interviewing techniques and grief and loss, couples counseling
Linda Lockwood
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Professor
Expertise: Brain development, Drug effects on brain, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience, Brain disorders, Stress
Harvey Milkman
Department: Psychological Sciences
Title: Professor Emeritus
Expertise: Abnormal psychology, Broncomania, Cravings and addictions, Drug addiction, Sportsmania
Susie Ryder
Department: Social Work
Title: Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Field Education
Expertise: Therapy with children, adolescents, couples and families, Supervision, Parenting, Solution focused brief therapy, School social work, Substance abuse, Suicide prevention
Erin Seedorf
Department: Health Professions
Title: Assistant Professor
Expertise: Public health, Population health, Public health policy, Local public health, Community engagement/advocacy
