Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Carlo DiClemente received his M.A. in Psychology at the New School for Social Research and his Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Rhode Island.

Dr. DiClemente is the co-developer of the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change with Dr. James Prochaska.  Dr. DiClemente is the author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters on motivation and behavior change and the application of this model to a variety of problem behaviors. Dr. DiClemente is a co-author of a self-help book based on this model of change, Changing for Good and several professional books, The Transtheoretical Model, Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change, and Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages of Change Therapy Manual.  He has recently completed a new book, Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover published by Guilford Press.  His current projects include brief interventions for problem drinking in medical settings, adolescent and adult dietary change and health risk reduction, and addiction prevention and treatment.

For the past 25 years he has conducted funded research in health and addictive behaviors.  He has directed an outpatient alcoholism treatment program and serves as a consultant to private and public treatment and prevention programs.  He was recently given the 2002 Distinguished Contribution to Scientific Psychology award by the Maryland Psychological Association and named to receive the Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  He is the current president of the Division on Addictions (50) in the American Psychological Association.