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Christopher Houck, PhD

Staff Psychologist

Christopher Houck, PhD, is a staff psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. Previously, he was a research associate at Rhode Island Hospital.

Dr. Houck received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and a doctorate degree in clinical psychology with a concentration in clinical child/ pediatric psychology at the University of Florida. He completed an internship in clinical psychology at Children’s Hospital of Orange County in California and a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at Brown University’s Clinical Psychology Training Consortium.

Research Interests

Dr. Houck conducts research on factors that influence adolescent risk behaviors, especially sexual behaviors and substance use. His work focuses on the role of emotion regulation in health behaviors, including the development of prevention interventions that teach emotion regulation skills to middle schoolers with the goal of reducing risk.

Locations

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Education

  • Fellowship:  The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Medical School:  University of Florida, Gainesville

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Swenson, R.R., Houck, C.D., Barker, D., & Brown, L.K. (in press).Prospective analysis of the transition to sexual experience and changes in sexual self-esteem among male and female adolescents attending therapeutic schools. Journal of Adolescence.
  • Tolou-Shams, M., Houck, C.D., Conrad, S., Tarantino, N., Stein, L., & Brown, L.K. (in press). HIV prevention for juvenile drug court offenders: A randomized controlled trial focusing on affect management. Journal of Correctional Health Care.
  • Houck, C.D., Nugent, N., Lescano, C.M., Peters, A., Brown, L.K. (2010). Sexual abuse and sexual risk behavior: Beyond the impact of psychiatric problems. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 35, 473-483. PMID 19966316, PMCID: PMC2910940.
  • Lescano, C.M., Houck, C.D., Brown, L.K., Doherty, G., DiClemente, R.J., Fernandez, M.I., Pugatch, D., & Schlenger, W.E., Silver, B.J., and Project SHIELD Study Group. (2009). Correlates of heterosexual anal sex among at-risk adolescents and young adults. American Journal of Public Health, 99, 1131-1136. PMID 19008522.
  • Houck, C.D., Lescano, C., Brown, L.K., Tolou-Shams, M., Thompson, J. and Project SHIELD. (2006). “Islands of risk”: Identifying subtypes of adolescents at risk for HIV. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31, 619-629.

Areas of Expertise

  • HIV Prevention

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