RIA: Principal Investigator - Ronda L. Dearing, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Ronda L. Dearing, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychology

Primary Research Areas

Help-seeking and access to substance abuse treatment; shame and guilt; addiction treatment outcome; relations between views about substance abuse treatment and subsequent treatment entry.

Current Projects

Help-Seeking for Alcohol Problems: A Prospective Study (funded by NIAAA). Exploring problem drinkers' attitudes about alcohol-related problems and alcohol treatment. Investigating how these attitudes and other factors relate to subsequent treatment entry (in collaboration with Gerard J. Connors, Ph.D. and Kimberly S. Walitzer, Ph.D.).

Impulse Control as a Mechanism of Change in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependence (funded by NIAAA). Multi-modal assessment of impulse control as a mechanism of change before, during, and after cognitive behavioral treatment for alcohol dependence (in collaboration with Principal Investigator Rebecca J. Houston, Ph.D. and Co-investigators Gerard J. Connors, Ph.D. and Gregory G. Homish, Ph.D.).

Investigating the relations of shame-proneness and guilt-proneness to alcohol and drug problems (in collaboration with June Tangney, Ph.D, George Mason University.)

Representative and Recent Publications

Parks, K., Hequembourg, A., & Dearing, R. L. (in press). Women’s social behavior when meeting new men: The influence of alcohol and childhood sexual abuse. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Maisto, S. A., Connors, G. J., & Dearing, R. L. (2007, in press). Alcohol use disorders. Gottingen: Hogrefe & Huber.

Stuewig, J., Tangney, J. P., Mashek, D., Forkner, P., & Dearing, R. (in press). The moral emotions, alcohol dependence, and HIV risk behavior in an incarcerated sample. Substance Use and Misuse.

Dearing, R. L., & Houston, R. J. (2007). Promoting a team approach to medication management. [Review of the book The therapist’s guide to psychopharmacology: Working with patients, families, and physicians to optimize care.]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52, Article 31.

Walitzer, K. S., & Dearing, R. L. (2006). Gender differences in alcohol and substance use relapse. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 128-148.

Dearing, R. L., Maddux, J. E., & Tangney, J. P. (2005). Predictors of psychological help seeking in clinical and counseling psychology graduate students. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 36, 323-329.

Dearing, R. L., Stuewig, J., & Tangney, J. P. (2005). On the importance of distinguishing shame from guilt: Relations to problematic alcohol and drug use. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 1392-1404.

Dearing, R. L., Barrick, C., Dermen, K. H., & Walitzer, K. S. (2005). Indicators of client engagement: Influences on alcohol treatment satisfaction and outcomes. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 19, 71-78.

Tangney, J. P., Boone, A., & Dearing, R. (2005). Forgiving the self: Conceptual issues and empirical findings. In E. L. Worthington, Jr. (Ed.), Handbook of forgiveness (pp. 143-158). New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Tangney, J. P., & Dearing, R. L. (2002). Gender differences in morality. In R. F. Bornstein and J. M. Masling (Eds.), Empirical studies in psychoanalytic theories: Vol. 10. The psychodynamics of gender and gender role (pp. 251-269). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Tangney, J. P., & Dearing, R. L. (2002). Shame and Guilt. New York: Guilford Press.