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.

Measured Steps vs. Delayed Treatment for High Risk Veterans in Primary Care (funded by the Office of Nursing Services, Veterans Administration). The purpose of this pilot study is to test the feasibility of MEASURED Steps, a manualized and innovative treatment, with veterans at risk for depression and alcohol abuse/dependence in primary care. The MEASURED Steps Group will be compared with a Delayed Treatment Group that will receive standard integrated primary care (in collaboration with Principal Investigator Deborah Finnell of UB’s School of Nursing and the Western New York VA Healthcare System).

Developing Web-delivered Coping Skills Training for Women with Alcoholic Partners (funded by NIAAA). This project develops a web-delivered coping skills training program for women with alcoholic partners. It will provide the foundation for a larger research effort evaluating this promising treatment delivery model with this population (in collaboration with Principal Investigator Robert G. Rychtarik, PhD and Co-investigator Chris Barrick, PhD).

Project STARTT (Stress Tension and Alcohol Relationships Today and Tomorrow) (funded by NIAAA). Evaluates different interventions to reduce the psychological and relationship distress among women living with an alcoholic or problem drinking partner who is not in treatment (in collaboration with Principal Investigator Robert G. Rychtarik, PhD). For more information, visit www.ProjectSTARTT.org.

Assessing families at a residential substance abuse facility (funded by the RIA Research Development Program). This pilot study assesses youth residing at a local residential substance abuse facility for youth aged 12-20, and their parents. In this survey, participants are assessed regarding their past and current psychosocial functioning, the youth’s substance use history, and their potential interest in a special training program for parents of youth with substance use issues.

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, PhD).

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, PhD, Gerard J. Connors, PhD, and Robert Whitney, MD, of UB's Family Medicine Department).