Kenneth M. Carpenter

TL;DR: The development and psychometric evaluation of a second version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), which assesses the construct referred to as, variously, acceptance, experiential avoidance, and psychological inflexibility, indicates the satisfactory structure, reliability, and validity of this measure.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between relative body weight and clinical depression, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts in an adult US general population sample was investigated, where the primary predictor was the body mass index (BMI) treated both continuously and categorically in logistic regression analyses.

TL;DR: A test-retest study was conducted of the AUDADIS in a clinical sample of 296 substance-using patients from substance- and psychiatrically-identified treatment settings, suggesting that it can be used in research comparing treated to community samples of individuals with alcohol and drug diagnoses.

TL;DR: The DSM-IV alcohol dependence and no-diagnosis comparisons were most consistent with the predictions of a risk-factor model, providing further evidence that drinking to cope with negative affect may have an etiological role in development of alcohol dependence.

TL;DR: These findings provide insight into the neurochemistry of treatment response and show that low dopamine transmission is associated with treatment failure, and suggest that the combination of behavioral treatment with methods that increase striatal dopamine signaling might serve as a therapeutic strategy for cocaine dependence.