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Richard Velleman is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields including psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, epidemiology, general health professions, social psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientist's primary research topics include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, homelessness and social issues, mental health treatment and access, behavioral health and interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cannabis and cannabinoid research, and gambling behavior and treatments.

Recent publications by Richard Velleman cover a range of issues related to mental health, substance use, and treatment interventions. Notable papers include:

  • Scaling Up Parenting Interventions is Critical for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals, 2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Alcohol use among adolescents in India: a systematic review, 2022, Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • Closing the treatment gap for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, 2022, Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • Interventions to increase help-seeking for mental health care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review, 2023, PLOS Global Public Health
  • The systematic development of a mobile phone-delivered brief intervention for hazardous drinking in India, 2021, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Richard Velleman has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Abhijit Nadkarni
  • Urvita Bhatia
  • Miriam Sequeira
  • Vikram Patel
  • Ankur Garg

Their publications are commonly found in journals such as Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Drug and Alcohol Review, PLoS ONE, and Drugs Education Prevention and Policy.

Best Publications

  • The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

    Vikram Patel;Benedict Weobong;Helen A Weiss;Arpita Anand

  • The role of the family in preventing and intervening with substance use and misuse: a comprehensive review of family interventions, with a focus on young people

    Richard D. B. Velleman;Lorna J. Templeton;Alex G. Copello

  • Family interventions in the treatment of alcohol and drug problems

    Alex G. Copello;Richard D. B. Velleman;Lorna J. Templeton

  • Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health.

    Jim Orford;Richard Velleman;Guillermina Natera;Lorna Templeton

  • The Experiences of Affected Family Members: a Summary of Two Decades of Qualitative Research

    Jim Orford;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello;Lorna Templeton

  • Family members affected by a close relative's addiction: The stress-strain-coping-support model

    Jim Orford;Alex Copello;Richard Velleman;Lorna Templeton

  • Prospective study of post-traumatic stress disorder in children involved in road traffic accidents

    Paul Stallard;Richard Velleman;Sarah Baldwin

  • Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Alex Copello;Carol Atkinson

  • Understanding and modifying the impact of parents’ substance misuse on children

    Richard Velleman;Lorna Templeton

  • Risk and Resilience: Adults Who Were the Children of Problem Drinkers

    Richard Velleman;Jim Orford

  • Coping and psychological distress in children involved in road traffic accidents

    P. Stallard;R. Velleman;J. Langsford;S. Baldwin

  • The families of problem drug users: a study of 50 close relatives

    Richard Velleman;Gerald Bennett;Tony Miller;Jim Orford

  • Family members of relatives with alcohol, drug and gambling problems: a set of standardized questionnaires for assessing stress, coping and strain.

    Jim Orford;Lorna Templeton;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello

  • Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial

    Abhijit Nadkarni;Benedict Weobong;Helen A Weiss;James McCambridge

  • Pain in cognitively impaired, non-communicating children

    P Stallard;L Williams;S Lenton;R Velleman

  • Ways of coping and the health of relatives facing drug and alcohol problems in Mexico and England

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello

  • A Randomised Controlled Trial to Determine the Effectiveness of an Early Psychological Intervention with Children Involved in Road Traffic Accidents.

    Paul Stallard;Richard Velleman;Emma Salter;Imogen Howse

  • Tolerate, engage or withdraw: a study of the structure of families coping with alcohol and drug problems in South West England and Mexico City

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Jill Davies;Adriana Nava

  • Alcohol, Drugs and the Family: Results from a Long-Running Research Programme within the UK

    Richard Velleman;Lorna Templeton

  • Improving the scalability of psychological treatments in developing countries: an evaluation of peer-led therapy quality assessment in Goa, India.

    Daisy R. Singla;Benedict Weobong;Abhijit Nadkarni;Neerja Chowdhary

  • A Treatment Package to Improve Primary Care Services for Relatives of People with Alcohol and Drug Problems

    A Copello;L Templeton;M Krishnan;J Orford

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Orford
Jim Orford University of Birmingham
Paul Stallard
Paul Stallard University of Bath
Christopher G. Fairburn
Christopher G. Fairburn University of Oxford
Sona Dimidjian
Sona Dimidjian University of Colorado Boulder
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Amanda L. Baker
Amanda L. Baker University of Newcastle Australia
G. Terence Wilson
G. Terence Wilson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christine Godfrey
Christine Godfrey University of York
Róbert Urbán
Róbert Urbán Eötvös Loránd University
Matthew R. Sanders
Matthew R. Sanders University of Queensland

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