Marsha Langer Ellison, PhD
Marsha Langer Ellison, PhD is Scientific Lead for the Social and Community Reintegration Research program (SoCRR) and a Health Research Scientist for the Center for Health Outcomes and Implementation Research (CHOIR) at the Bedford MA Veterans Administration Hospital. In the past four years, Dr. Ellison served as Principal Investigator in the areas of supported education services for returning Veterans with PTSD and in peer support services for homeless Veterans with co-occurring disorders. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has decades of funded research on recovery and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with mental illness. Presently, she is the Deputy Director for the Learning and Working During the Transition to Adulthood Research and Training Center. This Center conducts research on interventions that speed the recovery and community integration of youth and young adults with serious mental health conditions including those with first episode psychosis. Previously, Dr. Ellison was a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. During this time she conducted seminal research in the concepts of empowerment and recovery, and in the application of these concepts in mental health services. marsha.ellison@va.gov
Selected Publications:
Ellison, M.L., Mueller, L., Smelson, D., Corrigan, P., Bokhour, B., Torres-Stone, R., Najavits, L., Vessella, J., & Drebing, C. (2012). Supporting the education goals of Post 9/11 Veterans with self-reported PTSD symptoms: A needs assessment. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35 (3), 209 - 218.
Ellison, M.L., Klodnick, V., Bond G.R., Krzos, I., Kaiser, S.M., Fagan, M., Davis, M. (2015). Adapting Supported Employment for Emerging Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, Volume 42 (2), 206-222, DOI: 10.1007/s11414-014-9445-4.
Kirsch DJ, Pinder-Amaker SL, Morse, C, Ellison ML, Doerfler LA, Riba MB. (2014) Population-Based Initiatives in College Mental Health: Students Helping Students to Overcome Obstacles. Current Psychiatry Reports; 16, 525.
Russinova, Z., E.S. Rogers, Cook, K., Ellison, M.L., & Lyass, A. (2013). Conceptualization and measurement of mental health providers' recovery-promoting competence: The Recovery Promoting Relationships Scale (RPRS). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal; 36(1), 7-14.
Russinova, Z., Rogers, E.S., Ellison, M.L., Philippe Bloch, P., Lyass, A., & Wewiorski, N. (2013). Predictors of financial self-sufficiency among Social Security beneficiaries with psychiatric disabilities. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 38, 49-66.
Ellison, M.L., Rogers, E.S. Lyass, A., Massaro, J., Wewiorski, N. , Hsu, S., Anthony, W. A. (2011). Statewide Initiative of Intensive Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Outcomes and Relationship to Other Mental Health Service Use. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35(1), 9-20.
Russinova, Z., Rogers, E.S., Ellison, M.L., Lyass, A. (2011). Recovery-promoting professional competencies: Perspectives of mental health consumers, consumer-providers and providers. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 34(3), 177-185.
