Stella Resko
Professor, Phd Director and CADUS Coordinator
Expert in substance use treatment and prevention, and interpersonal violence
5447 Woodward Avenue
Detroit MI, 48202
Office #073
313-577-4445
Stella Resko
Biography
Stella Resko is a professor jointly appointed to Social Work and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development. The broad goals of her research are to prevent the initiation and escalation of substance use and violence. Much of her current research is focused on drug overdose prevention and substance use treatment, prevention, and recovery activities. Her work has focused on families affected by substance use, stigma related to substance use, and issues surrounding cannabis legalization. Resko is currently the Co-Principal Investigator for the evaluation of Michigan's State Opioid Response grants. She is the director of Wayne State's social work doctoral program and the graduate certificate in alcohol and drug use studies. Resko is a fellow of the Society for Social Work & Research and a member of the editorial board for Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, Social Work Research, and Journal of Addictive Diseases. In 2018, Dr. Resko was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan.
Resko received her Ph.D. in social work from the Ohio State University in 2007 and completed her post-doctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She previously worked at Maryhaven, a community-based substance use treatment program that participated in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network and on interdisciplinary research teams that developed and tested the effectiveness of brief interventions.
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Degrees and Certifications
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Addiction Research Center
- Ph.D., Social Work, Ohio State University
- M.S.W., Ohio State University
- B.S.S.W., Ohio State University
Teaching Interests
- Social work research & statistics
- Substance misuse
Areas of Expertise
METHODS EXPERTISE
- Surveys and web-based data collection
- Community-based research and evaluation
- Advanced quantitative methods (e.g. latent variable and multilevel models)
TARGET POPULATION EXPERTISE
- Adolescents & Emerging Adults
- Women & Families
- Adults
SUBSTANTIVE AREA EXPERTISE
- Substance use treatment and prevention
- Public perceptions and attitudes toward cannabis and opioids
- Families affected by substance misuse
- Interpersonal violence (e.g. intimate partner violence, youth violence, weapon-related violence)
- Motivational interviewing and brief interventions
Courses taught by Stella Resko
Fall Term 2025 (future)
Winter Term 2025 (current)
- SW9050 - Social Work PhD First Year Seminar
- SW9240 - Social Work Education
- SW9650 - Preparing for the Job Search