Associate Professor Keith Russell (Kinesiology) and Ph.D. student Nevin Harper recently published an article in Child and Youthcare Forum (with Nevin as lead author) titled "Catherine Freer Wilderness Therapy Expeditions: An exploratory case study of adolescent wilderness therapy, family functioning, and maintenance of change." Keith has also had a paper accepted by the Journal of Groups in Addictions and Recovery titled "Adolescent substance abuse treatment: Service delivery, research on effectiveness, and emerging treatment alternatives."

In addition, Keith just returned from the 2007 American Psychological Association Convention in San Francisco where he presented a paper titled "Stages of change and its relation to substance use frequency outcome in outdoor behavioral healthcare."