Dr. Hien's career has been devoted to studying and treating urban women and families. Over the past sixteen years, her team of interdisciplinary clinicians and scientists have studied the effects of exposure to interpersonal violence and adverse outcomes on women and their children, as well as tested trauma treatment models for traumatized populations with comorbid addictive disorders in single and multi-site studies. They have examined relationships between victimization, perpetration and the intergenerational manifestations of these linkages, and have used our understandings to (1) characterize high-risk, low-income populations with regard to interpersonal victimization and links to substance abuse, (2) provide evidence of the association of maternal aggressive and antisocial behavior and substance use behaviors, (3) examine developmental factors associated with interpersonal violence exposures and onset of addictive disorders; and (4) examine efficacy of treatments for traumatic exposure, PTSD and AOD comorbidity. They have also established a specialty clinical treatment program, the Women’s Health Project Treatment and Research Center, in the Department of Psychiatry at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center that serves as a training program for social work interns, psychology pre- and post-doctoral fellows and psychiatry residents.

Research Interests:

• Substance use
• Co-occurring disorders
• Trauma/PTSD Interventions
• Gender specific interventions

• 2007-2010: NIDA U10 Long Island Regional Node of NIDA’s CTN (PI: Nunes, Co-PIs: Tross & Hien) Clinical Trials Network, Long Island Node
• 2005-2010: Combined Treatment for Alcohol Dependent Women with PTSD (PI: Hien, NIAAA R01)
• 2003-2008: Women’s Treatment for Trauma and Substance Use Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial (PI: Hien, NIDA Clinical Trials Network)
• 2001-2006: Cocaine Abuse, Self-Regulation, and Maternal/Child Aggression (PI: Hien NIDA R01)
• Combined Treatment for Alcohol Dependent Women with PTSD (5 year study funded by NIAAA)

Hien, D. A., Miele, G. M., Cohen, L. C., Litt, L. & Campbell, A. N. (In press). Reclaiming Pandora: Integrating Trauma Services for Women in Addictions Treatment. New York, NY: American Psychological Association Press.

Cohen, L. C., Hien, D. A., Wasserman, G., & Batchelder, S. (In press). Intergenerational trauma: Parenting deficits among mothers with child sexual abuse and PTSD. Child Maltreatment.

Back, S., Waldrop, A., Hien, D. & Brady, K. (In press). Evidenced-based time-limited treatment of co-occurring substance use disorders and civilian-related PTSD. In A. Roberts (ed.) Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention.

Brady, K., Hien D. A., Haynes, L., & Killeen, T. (In press). PTSD and addiction comorbidity. In E. Nunes, J. Selzer & P. Levounis (Eds.) Substance Dependence and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders: Best Practices for Diagnosis and Treatment. Civic Research Institute Press.

Greenfield, S. F., Brooks, A. J., Gordon, S., Green, C. A., Hegedus, A., Kropp, F., Ghiroli, M., Gordon, M., McHugh, K., Hien, D. A., & Miele, G. M. (2007). Substance abuse treatment entry, retention and outcomes in women: A review of the literature. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 86, 1-21.

Cohen, L. R., & Hien, D. A. (2006). Can Complex PTSD inform our thinking about substance abusing women? Findings of a psychotherapy outcome study. Psychiatric Services, 57,100-106.

Hien, D. A., Cohen, L. R., & Campbell, A. N. (2005). Is traumatic stress a vulnerability factor for women with substance use disorders? Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 813-823.

Hien, D. A., Cohen, L. R., Litt, L., Miele, G. M. & Capstick, C. (2004). Promising empirically supported treatments for substance-using women with PTSD: A randomized clinical trial comparing Seeking-Safety with Relapse Prevention. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 1426-1432.

Litt, L., Hien, D. A., & Levin, D. (2003). Adult Antisocial Behavior and Affect Regulation among Primary Crack/Cocaine Using Women, Psychology of Women’s Quarterly, 27, 143-152.

Hien, D. A., & Miele, G. M. (2003). Emotion-focused coping as a mediator of maternal cocaine abuse and antisocial behavior, Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 17(1), 49-55.

Hien, D. A., Nunes, E. V., Levin, F. R., & Fraser, D. (2000). PTSD and short-term outcome in early methadone treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 19, 31-37.