Simon Adamson
Associate Professor
Psychological Medicine
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
DipClinPsych MSc (Dist) (Cant) PhD (Otago)
Research Interest
esearch interest is in the description, identification and treatment of addictive disorders. In particular he has an interest in treatment outcome, having examined issues of treatment effectiveness treatment efficacy prediction of treatment outcome different methods of measuring outcome.
Publications
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Foulds, J. A., Mulder, R. T., Newton-Howes, G., Adamson, S. J., Boden, J. M., & Sellman, J. D. (2016). Personality predictors of drinking outcomes in depressed alcohol-dependent patients. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 51(3), 296-301. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agv122
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Adams, P. J., Sellman, D., Newcombe, D., Adamson, S., White, S., Deering, D., & Todd, F. (2017). Postgraduate alcohol and other drug practitioner training in New Zealand: Significant influences. Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs. Advance online publication. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2017.78.468
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Dale, V., Heather, N., Adamson, S., Coulton, S., Copello, A., Godfrey, C., … on behalf of the UKATT Research Team. (2017). Predicting drinking outcomes: Evidence from the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT). Addictive Behaviors. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.02.023
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Amer Nordin, A. S., Adamson, S. J., & Sellman, J. D. (2017). Food addiction does not explain weight gain in smoking cessation. Journal of Smoking Cessation. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1017/jsc.2017.4
