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Training > Psychology Training Faculty > Michael McCart bio 

Michael R. McCart, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Family Services Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).  He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2006.  He completed a clinical internship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at MUSC’s National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center.  Dr. McCart's research interests focus on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based interventions for disruptive behavior disorders, substance abuse, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adolescents. Dr. McCart is currently working on NIDA-funded grants evaluating interventions for reducing substance use and risky sexual behavior among youth involved in juvenile drug court.  He is also involved in a services research project evaluating the effects of Multisystemic Therapy as a dispositional alternative for youth involved in the juvenile justice system in New York City.  In addition, Dr. McCart is conducting a NARSAD-funded study that evaluates whether D-Cycloserine augments the effects of exposure therapy for pediatric PTSD.

Select Honors/Awards:

2008National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award
2007National Institute of Mental Health Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) Summer Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Select Publications:

  • McCart, M.R., & Henggeler, S.W. (in press). Evidence-based interventions for adolescent substance use. In P. Korsmeyer & H.R. Kranzler (Eds.), Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol, and addictive behavior, 3rd edition. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale.
  • McCart, M.R., & Smith, D.W. (in press). Help seeking among victims of crime: A review of the empirical literature. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
  • Letourneau, E.J., Henggeler, S.W., Borduin, C.M., Schewe, P.A., McCart, M.R., Chapman, J.E., & Saldana, L. (in press), Multisystemic therapy for juvenile sexual offenders: 1-year results from a randomized effectiveness trial. Journal of Family Psychology.
  • Henggeler, S.W., Letourneau, E.J., Chapman, J.E., Borduin, C.M., Schewe, P.A., & McCart, M.R. (in press). Mediators of change for multisystemic therapy with juvenile sex offenders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
  • McCart, M.R., Ogden, T., & Henggeler, S.W. (in press). Youth who have broken the law. In. A. Ben-Arieh, J. Cashmore, G.S. Goodman, J. Kampmann, & G.B. Melton (Eds.). Handbook of Child Research. London, England: Sage Publications.
  • McCart, M.R., Fitzgerald, M., Acierno, R., Resnick, H.S., & Kilpatrick, D.G. (in press).   Evaluation and acute intervention with victims of violence. In. P.M. Kleespies (Ed.), Evaluating and managing behavioral emergencies: An evidenced-based resource for the mental health professional. Guilford Press.
  • McCart, M.R., Sawyer, G., & Smith, D.W. (2008). Developmental issues in PTSD diagnosis. In D.L. Delahanty (Ed.), Posttraumatic stress disorder across the lifespan. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Amstadter, A., McCart, M.R., & Ruggiero, K. (2007). Psychosocial interventions for adult victims of crime: A review of the empirical literature. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 38, 640-651
  • McCart, M.R., Smith, D.W., Saunders, B.E., Kilpatrick, D.G., Resnick, H.S., & Ruggiero, K.J. (2007). Do urban adolescents become desensitized to community violence? Data from a national survey. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 434-442.
  • McCart, M.R., Priester, P., Davies, W.H., & Azen, R. (2006). Differential effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy and behavioral parent-training for antisocial youth: A meta-analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 34, 527-543.

Select Presentations:

  • Danielson, C.K. & McCart, M.R. (2008, January). Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT): Targeting substance use and re-victimization in sexually assaulted adolescents. Two-part workshop presented at the 22nd Annual San Diego Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment, San Diego, California.
  • McCart, M.R., Davies, W.H., Phelps, L.F., & Melzer-Lange, M.D. (2007, November). Reducing violence/aggression among assaulted urban youth. Poster presented at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

         

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