Professional Interests 

• The intersections among co-occurring psychiatric and substance use and medical disorders, psychopathy and crime
• Evaluating the effectiveness of drug and psychiatric treatment programs
• Improving drug and psychiatric treatment for criminal justice and other populations
• See GAINS center web site
• See Criminal Justice and Mental Health Consensus web site
• Improving assessment of substance use and psychiatric disorders
• See National Comorbidity Survey web site

• Principal Investigator on the Jane Addams Substance Abuse Research Collaboration initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Principal Investigator on a study of co-occuring psychiatric, medical, and substance disorders among jail detainees funded by Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.
  
• Principal investigator on the Robert Wood Johnson Reclaiming Futures Study in Cook County 

• Research Methods in Social Work 
• Mental Health Policy
  
• Behavioral Healthcare for Criminal Justice Populations

Although I have chosen to focus on the research and teaching at this point in my career, I had extensive clinical training and practice experience while studying for my doctorate and beyond. I was trained in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy at Northwestern Hospital and Michael Reese Hospital while a graduate student. I saw both inpatients and outpatients and specialized in eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia) as well as therapy issues for young adults (ages 17-25). Following school, I worked as an independent practitioner in individual
psychotherapy for 7 years where my practice was limited to adult outpatient treatment.

Swartz, J. A., & Lurigio, A. J. (2007). Serious mental illness and arrest: The generalized mediating effects of substance use. Crime and Delinquency. In press.

Swartz, J. A. (2006). A pilot study of co-occurring psychiatric, substance use, and medical disorders among jail detainees in psychiatric treatment. Offender Substance Abuse Report. In press.

Lurigio, A. J., & Swartz, J. A. (2006). Mental illness in correctional populations: The use of standardized screening tools for further evaluation or treatment. Federal Probation. In press.

Swartz, J. A. (2006). Detecting serious mental illness among women in the criminal justice system. Women, Girls & Criminal Justice, 7(5), 69-72.

Swartz, J. A., & Lurigio, A. J. (2006). Screening for serious mental illness in populations with co-occurring substance use disorders: Performance of the K6 scale. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 31(3), 287-296.

Pimlott Kubiak, S., Arfken, C. L., Swartz, J. A., & Koch, A. L. (2006). Treatment at the front end of the criminal justice continuum: The association between arrest and admission into specialty substance abuse treatment. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention & Policy, 1, 1-20.

Swartz, J. A., & Lurigio, A. J. (2005). Detecting serious mental illness among substance abusers: use of the K6 screening scale. Journal of Evidence-based Social Work, 2(1-2), 113-135.

Swartz, J. A., & Lurigio, A. J.  (2005). Screening for serious mental illness among criminal offenders. Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 12, 137-161.

Swartz, J. A., Lurigio, A. J., & Weiner, D. A. (2004). Correlates of HIV-risk behaviors among prison inmates: Implications for tailored AIDS prevention programming. Prison Journal, 84(4), 472-485.

Swartz, J. A., & Lurigio, A. J. (2004). Psychiatric diagnosis, substance use and dependence, and arrests among former recipients of Supplemental Security Income for drug abuse and alcoholism. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 39(2), 19-38.

Swartz, J. A., Baumohl, J., & Lurigio, A. J.  (2004). Termination of Supplemental Security Income benefits for drug addiction and alcoholism: Results of a longitudinal study of the effects on former beneficiaries. Social Service Review, 78(1), 96-124.

Hanrahan, P., Luchins, D. J., Cloninger, L., & Swartz, J. (2004). Medicaid eligibility: Former Supplemental Security Income recipients with drug abuse or alcoholism disability. American Journal of Public Health, 94(1), 46-47.
 

Affiliations, Associations, & Consultations 

• American Psychological Association