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Charles J. Holahan, Ph.D.
Professor

Email: holahan@psy.utexas.edu Phone: 471-3320 Office: SEA 3.202 See also Clinical Psychology Dr. Holahan will not be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2009.

Charles (Josh) Holahan received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His area of interest is health psychology, with a specialization in stress and coping. His research focuses on "stress resistance," which examines factors that discriminate between individuals who remain healthy versus those who become emotionally or physically ill in the context of life stressors. He has been awarded the Jeanne Holloway, President's Associates, and Raymond Dickson teaching awards at UT.

Selected publications:

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., & Cronkite, R. C.  (1999).  Resource loss, resource gain, and depressive symptoms:  A 10-year model.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 620-629. 

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., & Cronkite, R. C.  (2000).  Long-term posttreatment functioning among patients with unipolar depression:  An integrative model.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 226-232. 

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., Cronkite, R. C., & Randall, P. K.  (2001).  Drinking to cope, emotional distress, and alcohol use and abuse:  A 10-year model.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 62, 190-198.

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., Cronkite, R. C., & Randall, P. K.  (2003).  Drinking to cope and alcohol use and abuse in unipolar depression:  A 10-year model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 159-165. 

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., Cronkite, R. C., & Randall, P. K.  (2004).  Unipolar depression, life context vulnerabilities, and drinking to cope.   Journal of Consulting  and Clinical Psychology, 72, 269-275.

Holahan, C. J., Moos, R. H., Holahan, C. K., Brennan, P. L., & Schutte, K. K.  (2005).  Stress generation, avoidance coping, and depressive symptoms:  A 10-year model.  Journal of Consulting  and Clinical Psychology, 73, 658-666.