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Shelly F. Greenfield

Shelly F. Greenfield

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
12459
World Ranking
2146
National Ranking
1033

Overview

Shelly F. Greenfield is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans medicine and psychology, with a focus on public health, epidemiology, pediatrics, clinical psychology, and general health professions. The scientist's work often addresses substance abuse treatment and outcomes, opioid use disorder treatment, prenatal substance exposure effects, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, digital mental health interventions, menstrual health and disorders, and child abuse and trauma.

Greenfield has published extensively, including in the following frequent venues:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • American Journal on Addictions
  • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine

Selected recent papers by Greenfield include:

  • "Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle in Adult Women: A Comprehensive Review" (2022) published in Harvard Review of Psychiatry
  • "Substance Use Disorders in Global Mental Health Delivery: Epidemiology, Treatment Gap, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Treatments" (2020) published in Harvard Review of Psychiatry
  • "Telemedicine for treating mental health and substance use disorders: reflections since the pandemic" (2021) published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Opioid Use Disorder in Women and the Implications for Treatment" (2020) published in Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice
  • "Patients' perceptions of telehealth services for outpatient treatment of substance use disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021) published in American Journal on Addictions

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Dawn E. Sugarman
  • R. Kathryn McHugh
  • Alisa B. Busch
  • Roger D. Weiss
  • Davida M. Schiff

The main fields of study with publication counts associated with Greenfield's work are medicine (108 publications) and psychology (40 publications). Within these, key subfields include public health, environmental and occupational health (41 publications), epidemiology (28), pediatrics, perinatology and child health (21), clinical psychology (20), and general health professions (13).

The primary topics explored throughout Greenfield's research include substance abuse treatment and outcomes (50 publications), opioid use disorder treatment (38), prenatal substance exposure effects (36), maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum (18), digital mental health interventions (14), menstrual health and disorders (8), and child abuse and trauma (8).

Best Publications

  • Substance abuse treatment entry, retention, and outcome in women: a review of the literature.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Shelly F. Greenfield;Audrey J. Brooks;Susan M. Gordon;Carla A. Green

  • Sex and gender differences in substance use disorders.

    R. Kathryn McHugh;R. Kathryn McHugh;Victoria R. Votaw;Dawn E. Sugarman;Shelly F. Greenfield

  • Substance abuse in women.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Sudie E. Back;Katie Lawson;Kathleen T. Brady

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

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

  • Treatment of patients with substance use disorders, second edition. American Psychiatric Association.

    Herbert D Kleber;Roger D Weiss;Raymond F Anton;Tony P George

  • A randomized trial of integrated group therapy versus group drug counseling for patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence

    Roger D. Weiss;Margaret L. Griffin;Monika E. Kolodziej;M.P.H. Shelly F. Greenfield

  • Beyond drug use: a systematic consideration of other outcomes in evaluations of treatments for substance use disorders

    Stephen T. Tiffany;Lawrence Friedman;Shelly F. Greenfield;Deborah S. Hasin

  • The relationship of self-efficacy expectancies to relapse among alcohol dependent men and women: a prospective study.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Michael R. Hufford;Lisa M. Vagge;Larry R. Muenz

  • Gender differences in a clinical trial for prescription opioid dependence

    R. Kathryn McHugh;R. Kathryn McHugh;Elise E. DeVito;Dorian Dodd;Kathleen M. Carroll

  • Women and alcohol use disorders

    Shelly F. Greenfield

  • Concurrent validity of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and AUDIT zones in defining levels of severity among out-patients with alcohol dependence in the COMBINE study.

    Dennis M. Donovan;Daniel R. Kivlahan;Daniel R. Kivlahan;Suzanne R. Doyle;Richard Longabaugh

  • Group therapy for patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence: results of a pilot study.

    Roger D. Weiss;Margaret L. Griffin;Shelly F. Greenfield;Lisa M. Najavits

  • Medication Compliance Among Patients With Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Disorder

    Roger D. Weiss;Shelly F. Greenfield;Lisa M. Najavits;Jose A. Soto

  • Patterns and predictors of treatment seeking after onset of a substance use disorder

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Patricia A. Berglund;Jorge J. Caraveo-Anduaga

  • The effect of comorbid substance use disorders on the course of bipolar disorder: a review.

    Mauricio Tohen;Shelly F. Greenfield;Roger D. Weiss;Carlos A. Zarate

  • The Women's Recovery Group Study: a Stage I trial of women-focused group therapy for substance use disorders versus mixed-gender group drug counseling.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Shelly F. Greenfield;Elisa M. Trucco;R. Kathryn McHugh;Melissa Lincoln

  • Gender differences in cocaine dependent patients: a 6 month follow-up study

    Roger D. Weiss;Roger D. Weiss;Jose Martinez-Raga;Margaret L. Griffin;Margaret L. Griffin;Shelly F. Greenfield;Shelly F. Greenfield

  • Validity of Substance Use Self-Reports in Dually Diagnosed Outpatients

    Roger D. Weiss;Lisa M. Najavits;Shelly F. Greenfield;Jose A. Soto

  • Treatment of patients with substance use disorders: Second edition

    Herbert D. Kleber;Roger D. Weiss;Raymond F. Anton;Tony P. George

  • Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle in Adult Women: A Comprehensive Review

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  • Childhood abuse in first-episode psychosis.

    Shelly F. Greenfield;Stephen M. Strakowski;Mauricio Tohen;Susan C. Batson

  • The Effect of Depression on Return to Drinking

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

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Kathryn McHugh
R. Kathryn McHugh Harvard University
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice Harvard University
Margaret L. Griffin
Margaret L. Griffin Harvard University
Lisa M. Najavits
Lisa M. Najavits University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Aimee N. C. Campbell
Aimee N. C. Campbell Columbia University Medical Center
Elizabeth A. Stuart
Elizabeth A. Stuart Johns Hopkins University
Ellen Meara
Ellen Meara Harvard University
Colleen L. Barry
Colleen L. Barry Johns Hopkins University
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee Boston Children's Hospital
Robert Gallop
Robert Gallop West Chester University

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