Catherine Stanger, Ph. D.
Associate Professor

4301 West Markham Street, Slot 843
Little Rock, AR  72205
phone: 501-686-5204
fax: 501-526-7816
cstanger@uams.edu

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University, 1990
M.S., Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University, 1987
B.S., Psychology, Georgetown University, 1983

Catherine Stanger has been with the Center for Addiction Research since 2005, where she is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a research scientist in the Center for Addiction Research.  She is the Principal Investigator of a NIDA-funded research grant: Preventing Problems among Children of Substance Abusers.  This project will test a parenting intervention for substance abusing mothers.  Dr. Stanger also collaborates with Dr. Budney on the Behavioral Treatment of Adolescent Marijuana Abuse project, testing a family based contingency management intervention for adolescent substance abuse.  Her interests include research on parenting interventions, substance abusing families, and adolescent substance abuse.

Preventing Problems among Children of Substance Abusers  R21 DA016606

Stanger, C., Kamon, J., Dumenci, L., Higgins, S., Bickel, W., Elk, R., Grabowski, J., Amass, L. (2002). Predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems among children of cocaine and opiate dependent parents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 66, 199-212.

Stanger, C., Dumenci, L., Kamon, J., & Burstein, M. (2004). Parenting and children’s externalizing problems in substance abusing families.  Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 590-600. (pdf 2.51 MB)

Kamon, J.L., Budney, A.J. & Stanger, C.S. (2005).  A contingency
management intervention for adolescent marijuana abuse and conduct
problems.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, 44, 513-521.

Vandrey, R., Budney, A.J., Kamon, J.L., & Stanger, C. (2005).
Cannabis withdrawal in adolescent treatment seekers. Drug and Alcohol
Dependence, 78(2), 205-210.

Burstein, M., Stanger, C., Kamon, J., & Dumenci, L.  (in press).  Parent 
psychopathology, parenting, and child internalizing problems in 
substance-abusing families.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Budney, A., & Stanger, C. (in press).  Contingency management for
Marijuana (Cannabis) Abuse and Dependence.  In S. Higgins,
K. Silverman, & S. Heil (Eds).  Contingency Management in the treatment
of Substance Use Disorders: A science-based treatment innovation. 
New York: Guilford.