RIA: Principal Investigator - Neil B. McGillicuddy, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Neil B. McGillicuddy, Ph.D.

Psychology

Primary Research Areas

Parental interventions for families with an adolescent substance abuser; interventions for partners of addicted persons; adolescent drug and alcohol use; treatment for adolescent alcohol and drug abusers.

Current Projects

Treatment Settings for Alcoholics: A Field Extension (funded by NIAAA). Replication and extension into community field settings of the investigators' prior work on matching clients to inpatient versus outpatient alcoholism treatment (in collaboration with Robert G. Rychtarik, Ph.D., Gerard J. Connors, Ph.D., and Robert Whitney, M.D., of UB's Family Medicine Department).

On-going Research

Skill Training for Parents of Adolescent Drug Abusers (funded by NIDA). Evaluating the relative efficacy of skill training and 12 step facilitation interventions for parents of adolescent substance abusers not in treatment (in collaboration with Co-investigator Robert G. Rychtarik, Ph.D.).

Representative and Recent Publications

McGillicuddy, N. B., Rychtarik, R. G., Morsheimer, E. T., & Burke, M. R. (2007). Agreement between parent and adolescent reports of adolescent substance use. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 16, 59-78.

McGillicuddy, N. B. (2006). A review of substance use research among those with mental retardation. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 12, 41-47.

Rychtarik, R. G., & McGillicuddy, N. B. (2006). Preliminary evaluation of a Coping Skills Training Program for those with a pathological-gambling partner. Journal of Gambling Studies, 22, 165-178.

Rychtarik, R. G., & McGillicuddy, N. B. (2005). Coping skill training and 12-step facilitation for women whose partner has alcoholism: Effects on depression, the partner’s drinking, and partner physical violence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 249-261.

McGillicuddy, N. B., Rychtarik, R. G., & Morsheimer, E. T. (2004). Psychometric evaluation of the Parent Situation Inventory (PSI): A role-play measure of coping in parents of substance-using adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 16, 386-390.

McGillicuddy, N. B., Rychtarik, R. G., Duquette, J. A., & Morsheimer, E. T. (2001). Development of a skill training program for parents of substance-abusing adolescents. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 20, 59-68.

Rychtarik, R. G., Connors, G. J., Whitney, R. B., McGillicuddy, N. B., Fitterling, J. M., & Wirtz, P. W. (2000). Treatment settings for persons with alcoholism: Evidence for matching clients to inpatient vs. outpatient care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 277-289.

McGillicuddy, N. B., & Blane, H. T. (1999). Substance use in individuals with mental retardation. Addictive Behaviors, 24, 869-878.

Rychtarik, R. G., & McGillicuddy, N. B. (1998). Assessment of Appetitive Disorders: Status of Empirical Methods in Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use. In Behavioral Assessment: A Practical Handbook (Fourth Edition). New York: Pergamon Press.

Rychtarik, R. G., McGillicuddy, N. B., Connors, G. J., & Whitney, R. B. (1998). Participant selection biases in a randomized clinical trial of alcoholism treatment settings and intensities. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22, 969-973.