Dr. Robinson is an Research Assistant Professor, carrying
out research funded by the NIAAA, Metanexus Institute, and
Fetzer Institute on spiritual and religious change associated
with recovery from alcohol problems. She was recently awarded
an NIAAA R01 to study long-term changes in spirituality after
individuals enter treatment for alcohol dependence, as well
as a Metanexus Institute grant to study experiences of spiritual
transformation in early recovery. Dr. Robinson is also working
with treatment centers on ways of incorporating meditation
into depression and substance abuse treatment. She was an
NIAAA post-doctoral fellow at the UM Addiction Research Center,
working with Dr. Brower on insomnia and relapse to alcohol
in a sample of treatment seekers and initiating a program
of research on the role of spirituality in recovery from substance
abuse and dependence. She has more than 20 years of social
science research experience, from surveys to experimental
designs and secondary data analysis, on such topics as correlates
of anxiety and gender differences in hostility among substance
abuse treatment seekers, to family stress and coping with
mental illness, gender and schizophrenia, and supportive health
education. Dr. Robinson's Ph.D. is in Psychology and Social
Work from the University of Michigan, as is her MSW and MPH.
She has taught seminars to psychiatry residents at the University
of Michigan and MSW courses at the University of Michigan,
Eastern Michigan University, Case Western Reserve University
and SUNY-Buffalo.
