James A. Cranford,
Ph.D.
Dr.
Cranford is a Research Assistant Professor at the University
of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC), Department
of Psychiatry. Dr. Cranford was a Research Fellow on the Center's
NIAAA funded training grant. He received his Ph.D. in Social/Personality
Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany
and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Quantitative Training
for Mental Health Research at New York University and in the
Substance Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program at the
University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC).
Dr. Cranford's research focuses on (1) short- and long-term
developmental trajectories of substance use disorders, mood
and anxiety disorders, and their co-occurrence in children,
adolescents, and adults; (2) differences between alcoholic
and nonalcoholic couples in the short- and long-term effects
of marital interaction on drinking behavior, negative and
positive affect, and marital stability; and (3) application
of daily process and other longitudinal statistical methods
to studies of stress, affect, and substance use.
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