Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Research)

Overview

Dr. Houck is a staff psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the Director of the Clinical Child Psychology Specialty Program for postdoctoral training in the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium's Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program. He is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1996. He obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Florida in 2002. He completed his internship at the Children's Hospital of Orange County in Orange, California and a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. He conducts research on factors related to adolescent risk behaviors, especially sexual behaviors and dating violence risk, and the role of emotion regulation in health behavior interventions. In addition to serving as a co-investigator on projects integrating emotion regulation into adolescent interventions, he is currently a principal investigator on three NIH-funded projects, including 1) examining the relationship between respiratory sinus arrhythmia and substance use in early adolescence, 2) testing the efficacy of a web-based parent-adolescent intervention to prevent dating violence, and 3) developing a web-based emotion regulation intervention to reduce sexual risk. Dr. Houck also provides clinical services to children and adolescents with co-occurring psychological and medical problems, as well as to those affected by family illness.

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