ISAP Researchers' Profiles

Mitchell Karno, Ph.D.

Mitchell Karno (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997) is Associate Research Psychologist in UCLAs Department of Psychiatry and is the Director of Alcohol Studies at ISAP.

Dr. Karno's primary research areas include patient-treatment matching, mechanisms of action in psychotherapy treatment for alcoholism, and screening for alcohol problems. Dr. Karno is Principal Investigator for multiple studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, including a study to assess which types of therapist interventions are most and least effective for different patients during alcohol treatment, and a study to examine factors associated with help-seeking and change in substance use in the general population. Before his arrival at UCLA in 2004, Dr. Karno was Assistant Professor at Brown Universitys Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies and was Associate Editor of the journal Substance Abuse.

Education and Training

• University of California, San Diego, B.A., Psychology, 1991
• University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A., Psychology, 1993
• University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1997
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Post-Doc, Alcohol Research, 1997-2000

Specialties

• Alcoholism treatment
• Patient-treatment matching
• Mechanisms of action of treatment

Contact Info

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025
karno@ucla.edu

Selected Publications

Karno, M. & Konecni, V. (1992).  The effects of structural interventions in the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony in G Minor K.550 on aesthetic preference.  Music Perception,  10(1), 63-72.

Konecni, V. & Karno, M.  (1994).  Empirical investigations of the hedonic and emotional effects of musical structure.  Musik Psychologie, 11, 119-137.

Neufeldt, S., Karno, M., & Nelson, M. (1996).  A qualitative study of experts’ conceptualization of supervisee reflectivity.  Journal of Counseling Psychology,  43(1), 3-9.

Beutler, L.E., Kim, E., Davison, E., Karno, M., & Fisher, D. (1996).  Research contributions to improving managed health care outcomes.  Psychotherapy,  33, 197-206.

Furlong, M., Karno, M., and Fortman, J. (1998).  A general assessment procedure to measure children’s schema acquisition.  Australian Journal of Psychology, 50(2), 1-5.

Karno, M. & Beutler, L. (1998).  (Abstract) What’s in a name?  Going beyond name-brand psychotherapy comparisons in patient-treatment matching.   Alcoholism:  Clinical and Experimental Research, 22(3), 36A, 197.

Beutler, L.E. & Karno, M. (1999).  Psychotherapy research:  Basic or applied?  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55(2), 171-180.

Karno, M. & Longabaugh, R. (1999).  (Abstract) General and alcohol-specific support as predictors of post-treatment alcohol use. Alcoholism:  Clinical and Experimental Research, 23(5), 82A, 457.

Karno, M., Granholm, E., and Lin, A. (2000) Factor structure of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in a mental health clinic sample.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61(5), 751-758.

Floyd, A., Hoffmann, N., & Karno, M. (2001).  Diagnostic specificity, Alcoholics Anonymous attendance, and aftercare in alcoholism treatment outcome studies:1990-1997.  Substance Use and Misuse, 36(4), 399-419.

Karno, M. & Longabaugh, R.  (2002). (Abstract)  Emotion focus in alcohol treatment and patient distress.  Alcoholism:  Clinical and Experimental Research,  26(5), 39A, 203.

Karno, M.P, Beutler, L.E., & Harwood, T.M. (2002).  Interactions between psychotherapy procedures and patient attributes that predict alcohol treatment effectiveness:  A preliminary report.  Addictive Behaviors, 27, 779-797.

Karno, M.P.  &  Longabaugh, R.  (2003) (Abstract).  A multidimensional matching index to predict alcohol treatment effectiveness.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27(5), 110A, 626.

Karno, M.P. & Longabaugh, R. (2003).  Patient depressive symptoms and therapist focus on emotional material:  A new look at Project MATCH.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 64(5), 607-615.

Karno, M.P. & Longabaugh, R. (2004).  What do we know?  Process analysis and the search for a better understanding of Project MATCH’s anger-by-treatment matching effect.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65, 501-512.

Longabaugh, R., Donovan, D.M., Karno, M.P., McCrady, B.S., Morgenstern, J., & Tonigan, J.S. (2005). Active ingredients: How and why evidence-based alcohol behavioral treatment interventions work. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 29(2), 235-247.

Karno, M.P.& Longabaugh, R. (2005).  Less directiveness by therapists improves drinking outcomes of reactant clients in alcoholism treatment.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73(2), 262-267.

Karno, M.P. & Longabaugh, R. (2005). An examination of how therapist directiveness interacts with patient anger and reactance to predict alcohol use. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 66, 825-832.

Karno, M.P. (in press). A Case Study of Mediators of Treatment Effectiveness. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

Last updated - 06/22/2007

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