Faculty & Staff
Education
1991
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School
Teaching
Dr. Stevens coordinates and lectures in the second-year Psychiatry course and also teaches in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention II , Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine III and IV, the Complex Interviewing Skills Modules of the Primary Care Clerkship, the Psychosocial Case Conference, and in the Family Medicine Residency program. Topics taught include medical interviewing skills, anxiety disorders, adherence and principles of behavioral change, smoking cessation, sexual health and dysfunction, and psychiatric aspects of pain.
Research Interest
Dr. Stevens is currently involved in collaborative research focusing on AIDS-related issues. Her clinical interests are in the areas of anxiety disorders and behavioral medicine, and her clinical activities have included inpatient and outpatient consultation services to medical patients, smoking cessation consultation, and providing psychological services to adult outpatients.
Publications
Stevens, V. M., Redwood, S. K., Neel, J. L., Bost, R. H., Van Winkle, N. W., & Pollak, M. H. (2004). Behavioral Science (Rapid Review Series). St. Louis: Mosby.
Neel, J., Stevens, V., Stewart, J. (2002) Obsessive-compulsive disorder: identification, neurobiology, and treatment. JAOA, 102 (2): 81-86.
Stevens, V.M., Neel, J.L., & Baker, D.L. (2000). Psychosis and nonadherence in an HIV-seropositive patient. AIDS Reader, 10(10), 596-601.
Stevens, V.M., Pollak, M. & Neel, J. (1998). Skills for promoting effective behavioral change. Academic Medicine, 73(5), 576-577.
Stevens, V.M., Pollak, M., & Neel. J. (1998, October). Training medical learners in behavioral counseling. Presented at the Nineteenth Forum for the Behavioral Sciences in Family Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Hutchinson, K.E., Stevens, V.M., & Collins, F.L. (1996). Cigarette smoking and the intention to quit among pregnant smokers. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 19(3), 307-316.
