James Langenbucher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Office: BAS Room 309
Tel: (732) 445-0908
Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: lngbchr@rci.rutgers.edu
Current Research
  • socioeconomic research on addictions
  • addictions consultation in the general medical setting
  • the assessment and treatment of alcoholism in the elderly
Awards
Under construction
Education
  Ph.D Rutgers Clinical Psychology  
  M.S.   Clinical Psychology  
  B.A. University of California at Riverside Psychology  
Professional Service
2008-Ongoing
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Representative Publications

Hildebrandt, T., Langenbucher, J.W., Carr, S., & Sanjuan, P. (2007). Modeling population heterogeneity in appearance- and performance-enhancing drug (APED) use: Applications of mixture modeling in 400 regular APED users. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116(4), 717-733.

Langenbucher, J., Labouvie, E., Sanjuan, P., Kirisci, L., Bavly, L., Martin, C., & Chung, T. (2004). An application of Item Response Theory analysis to alcohol, cannabis and cocaine criteria in DSM-IV. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113(1), 72-80.

Langenbucher, J., Martin, C., Labouvie, E., Sanjuan, P.M., Bavly, L., & Pollock, N. (2000). Toward the DSM-V: The Withdrawal-Gate Model vs. the DSM-IV in the diagnosis of alcohol abuse and dependence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 799-809.

Langenbucher, J.W., Chung, T., Morgenstern, J., Labouvie, E., Nathan, P.E., & Bavly, L. (1997). Physiological alcohol dependence as a "specifier" of risk for medical problems and relapse liability in DSM-IV. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 58, 341-350.

McCrady, B.S., & Langenbucher, J.W. (1996). Alcoholism treatment and health care system reform. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 737-746. Langenbucher, J.W., & Chung, T. (1995). Onset and staging of DSM-IV alcohol dependence using mean age and survival/hazard methods. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104, 346-354.

Langenbucher, J.W., McCrady, B.S., Brick, J., & Esterly, R. (1993). Socioeconomic Evaluations of Addictions Treatment. Washington, DC: White House Printing Office.

Dr. Langenbucher has been since 1989 Principal Investigator of the Research Diagnostic Project, a multisite study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to advance the descriptive psychopathology and nosology of substance use disorders and associated conditions. His teaching interests are in adult experimental and descriptive psychopathology. From 1988-1994, Dr. Langenbucher was an advisor to the Substance Use Disorders Work Group of the DSM-IV Task Force. In 1992-93, he was a consultant to the Executive Office of the President, and is senior author of Socioeconomic Evaluations of Addictions Treatment, a major review of cost-of-illness, cost-benefit, cost-offset and cost-effectiveness research published by the White House Printing Office.