Dr. Kadden is an attending in the Alcohol Drug Abuse, and Psychiatric Day Hospital Program at the UConn Health Center.
Clinical orientation is cognitive-behavioral.
Training interests include chemical dependence, cognitive-behavioral theory and intervention strategies, and motivational interviewing. Dr. Kadden's research focuses on treatment effectiveness for chemical dependence, especially patient-treatment matching. Measuring treatment process in cognitive-behavioral and interactional group therapies for adolescent substance abusers. Validity of the longitudinal, expert, all data procedure for psychiatric diagnosis in patients with psychoactive substance use disorders. Validity of the SCID in substance abuse patients.