Carlo C. DiClemente is internationally recognized as co-creator (with James Prochaska, Ph.D.) of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, a model that identifies stages of change and other factors that predict treatment outcomes and allows many more people to enter treatment programs at earlier stages of readiness. Dr. DiClemente is the author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters on motivation and behavior change and the application of this model to a variety of problem behaviors. Dr. DiClemente is a co-author of a self-help book based on this model of change, Changing for Good and several professional books, The Transtheoretical Model, Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change, and Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages of Change Therapy Manual. His most recent book on Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover was published in 2003. He has directed an outpatient alcoholism treatment program and served as a consultant to private and public treatment programs.

For the past 20 years he has conducted funded research in health and addictive behaviors and is a member of the Project MATCH and Project COMBINE clinical trial research groups. He has presented this model of intentional behavior change in training workshops both here in the United States and in many other countries. His current research interests include smoking initiation and cessation, alcoholism and substance abuse treatment, dual diagnosis, early intervention with problem drinkers, pregnancy smoking cessation, and initiation of health protection and health threatening behaviors.

Dr. DiClemente was given the 2002 Award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution to Psychology by the Maryland Psychological Association and has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division on Addiction.

DiClemente was one of five individuals selected to receive The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award in 2002.

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