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Yifrah Kaminer is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and has a research focus spanning medicine and psychology, with 22 publications in medicine and 15 in psychology. Their work primarily addresses clinical psychology, emergency medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of issues related to youth mental health and substance use, including:

  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Suicide and self-harm studies
  • Substance abuse treatment and outcomes
  • Poisoning and overdose treatments
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research
  • Opioid use disorder treatment
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Kaminer's recent papers include:

  • "Feasibility of an Integrated Treatment Approach for Youth with Depression, Suicide Attempts, and Substance Use Problems," 2021, published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • "Temporal dynamics of the relationship between change in depressive symptoms and cannabis use in adolescents receiving psychosocial treatment for cannabis use disorder," 2020, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
  • "Adaptive Treatment for Youth With Substance Use and Depression: Early Depression Response and Short-term Outcomes," 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Presentation and validation of the Abbreviated Self Completion Teen-Addiction Severity Index (ASC T-ASI): A preference-based measure for use in health-economic evaluations," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Determining Youth Intentional Fatal Drug Intoxication: The Case for a Psychological Autopsy to Complement the Medical Examiner's Report," 2020, Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse

The prominent publication venues where Kaminer frequently publishes include:

  • American Journal on Addictions
  • Adolescent Psychiatry
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Current Psychiatry
  • Mental Health and Addiction Research

Kaminer collaborates often with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • Rebecca H. Burke
  • John F. Curry
  • Vivian Reckers-Droog
  • Werner Brouwer
  • Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen

Best Publications

  • The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) Study: main findings from two randomized trials.

    Michael Dennis;Susan H. Godley;Guy Diamond;Guy Diamond;Frank M. Tims

  • Comorbidity of substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders in adolescents.

    Oscar G. Bukstein;David A. Brent;Yifrah Kaminer

  • The Cannabis Youth Treatment (CYT) experiment: Rationale, study design and analysis plans.

    Michael Dennis;Janet C. Titus;Guy Diamond;Guy Diamond;Jean Donaldson

  • Patterns of affective comorbidity in a clinical population of dually diagnosed adolescent substance abusers.

    Oscar G. Bukstein;Lilly J. Glancy;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Cognitive-behavioral coping skills and psychoeducation therapies for adolescent substance abuse

    Yifrah Kaminer;Joseph A Burleson;Ronit Goldberger

  • Adolescent substance abuse.

    Yifrah Kaminer;Ralph E. Tarter

  • The Teen-Addiction Severity Index: Rationale and Reliability

    Yifrah Kaminer;Oscar Bukstein;Ralph E. Tarter

  • On the learning curve: the emerging evidence supporting cognitive-behavioral therapies for adolescent substance abuse.

    Holly Barrett Waldron;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Psychotherapies for adolescent substance abusers : A pilot study

    Yifrah Kaminer;Joseph A. Burleson;Caryn Blitz;Jennifer Sussman

  • Comparison between Treatment Completers and Noncompleters among Dually Diagnosed Substance-Abusing Adolescents

    Yifrah Kaminer;Ralph E. Tarter;Oscar G. Bukstein;Mostefa Kabene

  • Efficacy of stimulants for cognitive enhancement in non-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder youth: a systematic review

    Kara Simone Bagot;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Adolescent Initiation of Cannabis Use and Early-Onset Psychosis

    Kara Simone Bagot;Robert Milin;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Self-efficacy as a predictor of treatment outcome in adolescent substance use disorders.

    Joseph A. Burleson;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth

    Yifrah Kaminer;Andreés Martin

  • Drug abuse severity in adolescents is associated with magnitude of deviation in temperament traits.

    Ralph E. Tarter;Susan B. Laird;Mostefa Kabene;Oscar Bukstein

  • Efficacy of outpatient aftercare for adolescents with alcohol use disorders: a randomized controlled study.

    Yifrah Kaminer;Joseph A. Burleson;Rebecca H. Burke

  • Validation of the Adolescent Drug Use Screening Inventory: Preliminary findings.

    Ralph E. Tarter;Susan B. Laird;Oscar G. Bukstein;Yifrah Kaminer

  • Alcohol & drug abuse: adolescent substance abuse treatment: where do we go from here?

    Yifrah Kaminer

  • Adolescent substance abuse: Psychiatric comorbidity and high-risk behaviors.

    Yifrah Kaminer;Oscar G. Bukstein

  • Challenges and opportunities of group therapy for adolescent substance abuse: A critical review

    Yifrah Kaminer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken C. Winters
Ken C. Winters Oregon Research Institute
Guy S. Diamond
Guy S. Diamond Drexel University
Ralph E. Tarter
Ralph E. Tarter University of Pittsburgh
Carl Feinstein
Carl Feinstein Stanford University
Christine McCauley Ohannessian
Christine McCauley Ohannessian Florida State University
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Howard A. Liddle
Howard A. Liddle University of Miami
Susan H. Godley
Susan H. Godley University of Miami
John F. Curry
John F. Curry Duke University
Mark D. Godley
Mark D. Godley Chestnut Health Systems

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