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D-Index
60
Citations
12654
World Ranking
3558
National Ranking
2002

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Mark D. Litt is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine and psychology, with significant contributions in pediatrics, epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, general health professions, and physiology.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics related to health and behavioral sciences, including:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Mark D. Litt has contributed to numerous publications, with a strong presence in specific scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Substance Use & Misuse
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Recent selected papers authored or coauthored by Mark D. Litt address issues such as pain-related stigma and coping strategies among adolescents with chronic pain, as well as substance use and health behaviors. Notable publications include:

  • "There's Nothing Wrong With You": Pain-Related Stigma in Adolescents With Chronic Pain (2021) in Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • "If It Ever Really Hurts, I Try Not to Let Them Know:" The Use of Concealment as a Coping Strategy Among Adolescents With Chronic Pain (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology
  • The association between temporomandibular disorders signs and symptoms, bruxism, and health variables: A cross-sectional study (2024) in CRANIO®
  • The new normal: Changes in drinking norms from college to postcollege life (2020) in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • Prospective predictors of electronic nicotine delivery system initiation in tobacco naive young adults: A machine learning approach (2023) in Preventive Medicine Reports

Mark D. Litt frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common coauthors include:

  • William T. Zempsky
  • Howard Tennen
  • Emily O. Wakefield
  • Rebecca M. Puhl
  • Vaishali Belamkar

In 2008, Mark D. Litt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • Alcohol cue reactivity, negative-mood reactivity, and relapse in treated alcoholic men.

    Ned L. Cooney;Mark D. Litt;Priscilla A. Morse;Lance O. Bauer

  • Matching alcoholism treatments to client heterogeneity

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

  • Matching alcoholics to coping skills or interactional therapies: posttreatment results.

    Ronald M. Kadden;Ned L. Cooney;Herbert Getter;Mark D. Litt

  • Self-efficacy and perceived control: cognitive mediators of pain tolerance

    Mark D. Litt

  • The role of self-efficacy in the treatment of substance use disorders

    Ronald M. Kadden;Mark D. Litt

  • Coping and cognitive factors in adaptation to in vitro fertilization failure.

    Mark D. Litt;Howard Tennen;Glenn Affleck;Susan Klock

  • Project MATCH secondary a priori hypotheses

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

  • Sources of stress and dissatisfaction in experienced high school teachers

    Mark D. Litt;Dennis C. Turk

  • Cognitive behavioural coping skills therapy manual: a clinical research guide for therapists treating individuals with alcohol abuse and dependence,

    Ronald M Kadden;Carroll Kathleen;Dennis M Donovan;Ned L. Cooney

  • Matching Alcoholics to Coping Skills or Interactional Therapies: Two-Year Follow-Up Results.

    Ned L. Cooney;Ronald M. Kadden;Mark D. Litt;Herbert Getter

  • Types of alcoholics, II. Application of an empirically derived typology to treatment matching.

    Mark D. Litt;Thomas F. Babor;Frances K. DelBoca;Ronald M. Kadden

  • Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) with treated alcoholics: Methodological problems and potential solutions.

    Mark D. Litt;Ned L. Cooney;Priscilla Morse

  • Changing network support for drinking: network support project 2-year follow-up.

    Mark D. Litt;Ronald M. Kadden;Elise Kabela-Cormier;Nancy M. Petry

  • Coping skills and treatment outcomes in cognitive-behavioral and interactional group therapy for alcoholism.

    Mark D. Litt;Ronald M. Kadden;Ned L. Cooney;Elise Kabela

  • Reactivity to alcohol-related stimuli in the laboratory and in the field: predictors of craving in treated alcoholics.

    Mark D. Litt;Ned L. Cooney;Priscilla Morse

  • Initiation and maintenance of exercise behavior in older women: predictors from the social learning model.

    Mark D. Litt;Alison Kleppinger;James O. Judge

  • Abstinence Rates Following Behavioral Treatments for Marijuana Dependence

    Ronald M. Kadden;Mark D. Litt;Elise Kabela-Cormier;Nancy M. Petry

  • Reactivity to alcohol cues and induced moods in alcoholics.

    Mark D. Litt;Ned L. Cooney;Ronald M. Kadden;Larry Gaupp

  • Therapist effects in three treatments for alcohol problems

    J.P. Allen;M.E. Mattson;W.R. Miller;J.S. Tonigan

  • Cognitive mediators of stressful experience: Self-efficacy and perceived control

    Mark D. Litt

  • Matching alcoholism treatments to client heterogeneity

    J. P. Allen;M. E. Mattson;W. R. Miller;J. S. Tonigan

  • Matching alcoholics to coping skills or interactional therapies

    Mark D. Litt

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald M. Kadden
Ronald M. Kadden University of Connecticut Health Center
Ned L. Cooney
Ned L. Cooney Yale University
Howard Tennen
Howard Tennen University of Connecticut
Nancy M. Petry
Nancy M. Petry University of Connecticut
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis M. Donovan University of Washington
Carlo C. DiClemente
Carlo C. DiClemente University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Richard Longabaugh
Richard Longabaugh Brown University
William R. Miller
William R. Miller University of New Mexico
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University

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