Amy Cohn
Dr. Amy Cohn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, with a joint appointment in the Department of Criminology. Before joining MHLP, Dr. Cohn was a Research Associate at the Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS) at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2007 and graduated from the Postdoctoral Training Consortium of Brown Medical School in 2008, specializing in addictions treatment research. She was also the recipient of a National Research Service Award fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to pursue advanced research training in alcohol treatment and outcomes at CAS. Dr. Cohn’s research focuses on examining risk factors that influence the co-morbid presentation of affective disorders, addiction, intimate partner violence (victimization and perpetration), and help-seeking through the use of new technology and daily process methodology. She is specifically interested in the implementation of Interactive Voice Response technology to identify mechanisms of behavior change in the following areas : (1) the influence of affective vulnerability and psychiatric co-morbidity on the course and treatment of addictive behaviors; (2); the role of daily alcohol use risk factors (negative affect, life stressors) on problematic alcohol use, legal consequences from alcohol use, and alcohol help-seeking in under-served and untreated populations of problem drinkers; and (3) gender differences in the co-occurrence of alcohol use and perpetration/victimization of intimate partner violence and sexual assault in clinical and non-clinical samples. For the past two years, Dr. Cohn has been President of the Men’s Mental and Physical Health Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and is currently collaborating with faculty in the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Center of Alcohol Studies to examine cognitive vulnerability to alcohol use and cravings that arise in response to cue-induced mood among problem drinkers. In addition, Dr. Cohn is co-investigator on a collaborative research grant (PI: Liliane Windsor) through the Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers University to understand the role of alcohol and drug use among low-income urban African-Americans. Dr. Cohn has expertise in the design, implementation, and delivery of empirically-based treatments for substance and alcohol use problems, including Motivational Enhancement Therapy, brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation, and group and individual manual-based CBT for alcohol use disorders for women.
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