Catherine Stanger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

4301 West Markham Street, Slot 843
Little Rock, AR  72205
phone: 501.526.8444
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: Family Based Contingency-Management for Adolescent Alcohol Abuse. The major goals of this project are develop and test an innovative behavioral treatment for adolescents who abuse alcohol, and to begin to understand the mechanisms of change involved in the treatment process. Dr. Stanger also collaborates with Dr. Budney on the Behavioral Treatment of Adolescent Marijuana Abuse project and Computerized Treatment for Marijuana Abuse: Development and Efficacy Testing. Her interests include research on parenting interventions, substance abusing families, and adolescent substance abuse.

Family Based Contingency-Management for Adolescent Alcohol Abuse

Behavioral Treatment of Adolescent Marijuana Abuse  

Computerized Treatment for Marijuana Abuse: Development and Efficacy Testing

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.

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.  (2006).  Parent psychopathology, parenting, and child internalizing problems in substance-abusing families.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 97-106

Kamon J, Stanger C, Budney A, and Dumenci L. (2006). Relations between parent and adolescent problems among adolescents presenting for family-based marijuana abuse treatment. Drug and Alcohol Dependence (85) 244-254.

Rettew DC, Doyle AC, Kwan M, Stanger C, Hudziak JJ. (2006). Exploring the boundary between temperament and generalized anxiety disorder: A receiver operating characteristic analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20(7), 931-945.

Rettew DC, Stanger C, McKee L, Doyle A, Hudziak JJ.  (2006).  Interactions between child and parent temperament and child behavior problems.  Comprehensive Psychiatry, 47(5), 412-420.

Stanger C.  (2006). Latent growth mixture models: An important new tool for developmental researchers. Infant and Child Development, (15), 635-637

Budney, A., & Stanger, C. (2007).  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.