Staff
Research Staff
Douglas L. Polcin, Ed.D
Senior Scientist
Email: Phone: 510-597-3440
Education:
Ed.D. Counseling Psychology, Boston's Northeastern University
M.S. Clinical Psychology, San Francisco State University
Primary Research Area:
Peer helping, motivational enhancement therapy, criminal justice mandated treatment, the roles of coercion and confrontation in treatment outcome, bridging treatment and research, and spirituality.
Current Projects:
- Measuring Confrontation During Recovery (Principal Investigator)
Recently/Selected Completed Projects:
- An Evaluation of Sober Living Houses (Principal Investigator)
- Coercion to enter Treatment from Probation Officers.(Principal Investigator)
NIAAA R03 AA12358
This study investigates criminal justice probation officers' use of coercion as a means of improving alcohol treatment utilization among those on probation. - Intensive Motivational Interviewing for Methamphetamine Dependence (Principal Investigator)
Awards & Activities:
- Adjunct faculty member at John F. Kennedy University (2002 - Present)
- Adjunct Faculty at the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (2008 - Present)
- NIAAA Training Program Post-doctoral Fellow, Alcohol Research Group and UC Berkeley SPH (1996 - 1998)
Selected Research Publications:
Polcin, D. L. (In Press) Communal living settings for adults recovering from substance abuse. Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.
Polcin, D. L., Henderson, D M (2008) A clean and sober place to live: philosophy, structure, and purported therapeutic factors in sober living houses. J. Psychoactive Drugs, 40(2), 153-59.
Polcin, D. L., Beattie, M (2007) Relationship and institutional pressure to enter treatment: differences by demographics, problem severity, and motivation. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68(3), 428-36.
Polcin, D. L., Galloway, G. P., Bostrom, A., & Greenfield, T. K. (2007) Factor analysis of the Alcohol and Drug Confrontation Scale (ADCS). Addict. Behav., 32(10), 2274-80.
Polcin, D. L. (2006) Reexamining confrontation and Motivational Interviewing. Addict. Disord. Their Treat., 5(4), 201-09.
Polcin, D. L. (2006) What about Sober Living Houses for parolees?. Criminal Justice Studies, 19(3), 291-300.
Polcin, D. L., Galloway, G P, Greenfield, T. K. (2006) Measuring confrontation during recovery from addiction. Subst. Use Misuse, 41, 369-92.
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