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  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

John F. Kelly is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, psychology, and health professions, with a significant emphasis on substance use and mental health.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as epidemiology, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

Key subfields of study are:

  • Epidemiology
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

The main topics covered in their work include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, opioid use disorder treatment, mental health and patient involvement, homelessness and social issues, mental health treatment and access, prenatal substance exposure effects, and digital mental health interventions.

Prominent topics of research are:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by John F. Kelly include:

  • Assessment of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Medication to Treat Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant Women in Massachusetts (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders (2022), published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-Step Facilitation Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Distillation of a 2020 Cochrane Review for Clinicians and Policy Makers (2020), published in Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug-related impairment in practice and policy (2020), published in Addiction
  • Online digital recovery support services: An overview of the science and their potential to help individuals with substance use disorder during COVID-19 and beyond (2020), published in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

John F. Kelly frequently collaborates with various co-authors, including Brandon G. Bergman, Bettina B. Hoeppner, Valerie A. Earnshaw, Alexandra Abry, and Lauren A. Hoffman.

Regular publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Addiction
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
  • Addictive Behaviors

John F. Kelly has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Resilience strategies for new teachers in high-needs areas

    Antonio J. Castro;John Kelly;Minyi Shih

  • The Effect of Depression on Return to Drinking: A Prospective Study

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Roger D. Weiss;Larry R. Muenz;Lisa M. Vagge

  • Does it matter how we refer to individuals with substance-related conditions? A randomized study of two commonly used terms

    John F. Kelly;Cassandra M. Westerhoff

  • Comparative utility of a single-item versus multiple-item measure of self-efficacy in predicting relapse among young adults

    Bettina B. Hoeppner;John F. Kelly;Karen A. Urbanoski;Valerie Slaymaker

  • Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs for alcohol use disorder.

    John F Kelly;Keith Humphreys;Marica Ferri

  • How do people recover from alcohol dependence? A systematic review of the research on mechanisms of behavior change in Alcoholics Anonymous

    John Francis Kelly;Molly Magill;Robert Lauren Stout

  • Lived Experience in New Models of Care for Substance Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Peer Recovery Support Services and Recovery Coaching.

    David Eddie;Lauren Hoffman;Corrie Vilsaint;Alexandra Abry

  • Determining the relative importance of the mechanisms of behavior change within Alcoholics Anonymous: a multiple mediator analysis

    John F. Kelly;Bettina Hoeppner;Robert L. Stout;Maria Elizabeth Pagano

  • The effects of transdermal nicotine on cognition in nonsmokers with schizophrenia and nonpsychiatric controls

    Ruth S Barr;Melissa A Culhane;Lindsay E Jubelt;Rana S Mufti

  • Spirituality in recovery: a lagged mediational analysis of alcoholics anonymous' principal theoretical mechanism of behavior change.

    John F. Kelly;Robert L. Stout;Molly Magill;J. Scott Tonigan

  • Prevalence and pathways of recovery from drug and alcohol problems in the United States population: Implications for practice, research, and policy.

    John F. Kelly;Brandon G. Bergman;Bettina B. Hoeppner;Corrie Vilsaint

  • Light drinking in pregnancy, a risk for behavioural problems and cognitive deficits at 3 years of age?

    Yvonne Kelly;Amanda Sacker;Ron Gray;John Kelly

  • A multivariate process model of adolescent 12-step attendance and substance use outcome following inpatient treatment.

    John F. Kelly;Mark G. Myers;Sandra A. Brown

  • Is Alcoholics Anonymous religious, spiritual, neither? Findings from 25 years of mechanisms of behavior change research

    John F. Kelly

  • Does Our Choice of Substance-Related Terms Influence Perceptions of Treatment Need? an Empirical Investigation with Two Commonly Used Terms

    John F. Kelly;Sarah J. Dow;Cara Westerhoff

  • Dropout from 12-step self-help groups: prevalence, predictors, and counteracting treatment influences.

    John F Kelly;Rudolf Moos

  • The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018

    Philip N. Howard;Bharath Ganesh;Dimitra Liotsiou;John Kelly

  • Substance use disorder patients who are mandated to treatment: characteristics, treatment process, and 1- and 5-year outcomes.

    John F. Kelly;John W. Finney;Rudolf Moos

  • Self-help for substance-use disorders: history, effectiveness, knowledge gaps, and research opportunities.

    John F. Kelly

  • A 3-year study of addiction mutual-help group participation following intensive outpatient treatment

    John F. Kelly;Robert Stout;Robert Stout;William Zywiak;Robert Schneider

  • The Effect of Depression on Return to Drinking

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Roger D. Weiss;Larry R. Muenz;Lisa M. Vagge

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Mark G. Myers
Mark G. Myers University of California, San Diego
Christopher W. Kahler
Christopher W. Kahler Brown University
Valerie A. Earnshaw
Valerie A. Earnshaw University of Delaware
Molly Magill
Molly Magill Brown University
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
Rudolf H. Moos
Rudolf H. Moos Stanford University
Christine Timko
Christine Timko Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
J. Scott Tonigan
J. Scott Tonigan University of New Mexico
Frank P. Deane
Frank P. Deane University of Wollongong

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