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Kathleen M. Carroll

Kathleen M. Carroll

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
116
Citations
42952
World Ranking
684
National Ranking
415

Psychology

D-Index
117
Citations
43424
World Ranking
299
National Ranking
187

Medicine

D-Index
117
Citations
43506
World Ranking
4235
National Ranking
2318

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Kathleen M. Carroll was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in epidemiology, applied psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The main areas of study included substance abuse treatment and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, opioid use disorder treatment, cannabis and cannabinoid research, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

The scientist contributed numerous publications in venues such as:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • JAMA Network Open

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kathleen M. Carroll were:

  • "Combined Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Alcohol or Substance Use Disorders," 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • "The search for mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy for alcohol or other drug use disorders: A systematic review," 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "The state of clinical outcome assessments for cannabis use disorder clinical trials: A review and research agenda," 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • "A feasibility study providing substance use treatment in the Black church," 2020, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • "The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development," 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science

Kathleen M. Carroll frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Brian D. Kiluk
  • Charla Nich
  • Corey R. Roos
  • Theresa Babuscio
  • Lara A. Ray

In addition to journal articles, they published a book titled : in 2020, which was published by eBooks.

Best Publications

  • A Stage Model of Behavioral Therapies Research: Getting Started and Moving on From Stage I

    Bruce J. Rounsaville;Kathleen M. Carroll;Lisa S. Onken

  • Reenvisioning Clinical Science: Unifying the Discipline to Improve the Public Health

    Lisa S. Onken;Kathleen M. Carroll;Varda Shoham;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Psychiatric diagnoses of treatment-seeking cocaine abusers.

    Bruce J. Rounsaville;Susan Foley Anton;Kathleen Carroll;Douglas Budde

  • We Don't Train in Vain: A Dissemination Trial of Three Strategies of Training Clinicians in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Diane E. Sholomskas;Gia Syracuse-Siewert;Bruce J. Rounsaville;Samuel A. Ball

  • Meta‐Analysis of Therapist Effects in Psychotherapy Outcome Studies

    Paul Crits-Christoph;Kathryn Baranackie;Julie S. Kurcias;Aaron T. Beck

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex and medication-resistant auditory hallucinations.

    Ralph E. Hoffman;Keith A. Hawkins;Ralitza Gueorguieva;Nash N. Boutros

  • Behavioral therapies for drug abuse.

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Lisa S. Onken

  • Motivational Interviewing to Improve Treatment Engagement and Outcome in Individuals Seeking Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Multisite Effectiveness Study

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Samuel A. Ball;Charla Nich;Steve Martino

  • One-year follow-up of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence : delayed emergence of psychotherapy effects

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Bruce J. Rounsaville;Charla Nich;Lynn T. Gordon

  • Efficacy of disulfiram and cognitive behavior therapy in cocaine-dependent outpatients: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Lisa R. Fenton;Samuel A. Ball;Charla Nich

  • Mindfulness training for smoking cessation: results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Judson A. Brewer;Sarah Mallik;Theresa A. Babuscio;Charla Nich

  • Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy for Ambulatory Cocaine Abusers

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Bruce J. Rounsaville;Lynn T. Gordon;Charla Nich

  • Matching alcoholism treatments to client heterogeneity

    J. Allen;R. F. Anton;T. F. Babor;J. Carbonari

  • Treatment of cocaine and alcohol dependence with psychotherapy and disulfiram.

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Charla Nich;Samuel A. Ball;Elinore Mccance

  • The effects of gender, age, ethnicity, and liver cirrhosis on cytochrome P450 enzyme activity in human liver microsomes and inducibility in cultured human hepatocytes.

    Andrew Parkinson;Daniel R Mudra;Cory Johnson;Anne Dwyer

  • Behavioral impulsivity predicts treatment outcome in a smoking cessation program for adolescent smokers.

    Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin;Brady Reynolds;Amy M. Duhig;Anne Smith

  • A general system for evaluating therapist adherence and competence in psychotherapy research in the addictions.

    Kathleen M Carroll;Charla Nich;Rachel L Sifry;Kathryn F Nuro

  • Computer-Assisted Delivery of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Addiction: A Randomized Trial of CBT4CBT

    Kathleen M. Carroll;Samuel A. Ball;Steve Martino;Charla Nich

  • Effects of Prototypical Microsomal Enzyme Inducers on Cytochrome P450 Expression in Cultured Human Hepatocytes

    Ajay Madan;Richard A. Graham;Kathleen M. Carroll;Daniel R. Mudra

  • The therapeutic alliance and its relationship to alcoholism treatment participation and outcome

    Gerard J. Connors;Kathleen M. Carroll;Carlo C. DiClemente;Richard Longabaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce J. Rounsaville
Bruce J. Rounsaville Yale University
Charla Nich
Charla Nich Yale University
Brian D. Kiluk
Brian D. Kiluk Yale University
Samuel A. Ball
Samuel A. Ball Yale University
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Steve Martino
Steve Martino Yale University
Kathleen T. Brady
Kathleen T. Brady Medical University of South Carolina
Nancy M. Petry
Nancy M. Petry University of Connecticut
Sudie E. Back
Sudie E. Back Medical University of South Carolina
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania

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