RICHARD
L. HOUGH,
Ph.D.
Department of
Psychiatry
RESEARCH PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE, UNM PSYCHIATRY CENTER FOR RURAL AND COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969
M.Div., Iliff School of Theology, 1963
B.A., Texas Christian University, 1959
e-mail: rhough@salud.unm.edu
Areas of Specialization. Over my career, my main interests have been behavioral health services and epidemiologic research; racial/ethnic and geographic disparities; and services evaluation research.
Prior to moving to New Mexico in 2001, I spent 18 years in San Diego where I was:
▪ Co-Director of a NIMH funded Child and Adolescent Services
Research Center (CASRC) for 11 years;
▪ Principal Investigator on a study of patterns of care for children
and adolescents in five public sectors of care that has, to date,
yielded over 50 published manuscripts;
▪ Co-investigator on the National Vietnam Veteran Readjustment
Study that received the International Society for Traumatic Stress
Studies Outstanding Research Accomplishment of the Year
Award in 1991;
▪ Principal Investigator on several SAMHSA-funded demonstration
projects evaluating innovative behavioral health service programs
for homeless, mentally ill and substance abusing populations.
From 1978 through 1984 I was at UCLA and served as the Director of the Health Services Research Center at Brentwood VA Psychiatric Hospital and as the Principal Investigator for the Los Angeles site of the NIMH epidemiologic Catchment Area research program.
Since moving to UNM I have been most involved in developing behavioral health services research in the Department of Psychiatry Center for Rural and community Behavioral Health and the development of the New Mexico Consortium for Behavioral Health Training and Research (NM-CBHTR). I have also been involved in research on the services delivery consequences of there organization of New Mexico behavioral health into a single Behavioral Health Purchasing Collaborative; the development of an interactive behavioral health risk assessment protocol for use by primary care clinicians and a study of the course of ADHD in an adolescent population.
MMentoring a number of very talented young faculty members as they begin to develop their own research programs has been a particularly enjoyable part of my work at UNM.
Selected Publications:
(from over 160)
1. Hough RL, Landsverk JL, Karno M, et al. (1987). Utilization of health
and mental health services by Los Angeles Mexican Americans and
Nonhispanic Whites. Archives of General Psychiatry 44:702-709.
2. Burnam MA, Hough RL, Escobar JI, et al. (1987). Current psychiatric
disorders: Mexican Americans and Nonhispanic Whites in Los
Angeles. Archives of General Psychiatry 44:687-694.
3. Karno M, Hough RL, Timber DM, et al. (1987). Lifetime prevalence of
specific psychiatric disorders among Mexican Americans and
Nonhispanic Whites in Los Angeles. Archives of General Psychiatry
44:695-701.
4. Vega WA, Kolody B, Hough RL, Figueroa G (1987). Depressive
symptomatology in northern Mexico adults. American Journal of Public
Health 77:1215-1218.
5. Kulka RA, Schlenger WE, Fairbank JA, Hough RL, et al (1990).
Trauma and the Vietnam War Generation: Report of findings from the
National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. New York:
Brunner/Mazel.
6. Hough RL, Canino GJ, Abueg FR, Gusman FD (1996). PTSD and
related stress disorders among Hispanics. Pp. 301-340 in Marsella AJ,
et al. (eds). Ethnocultural Aspects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Issues, research and clinical applications. Washington DC: American
Psychological Association.
7. Garland AF, Hough RL, McCabe KM, et al. (2001). Prevalence of
psychiatric disorders in youth across five sectors of care. Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 40: 409-418.
8. Hough RL, Hazen AL, Soriano FI et al. (2002). Mental health services
for Latino adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric Services
53:1556-1562.
9. Barrio C, Yamada AM, Hough RL et al. (2003). Ethnic disparities in
use of public mental health case management services among
patients with Schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services 54:1264-1270.
10. Hazen AL, Hough RL, Landsverk JA, Wood P (2004). Use of mental
health services by youths in public sectors of care. Mental Health
Services Research 6:213-226.
11. Schlenger WE, Kulka RA, Fairbank JA, Hough RL, Jordan BK,
Marmar CR, Weiss DS (2007). The psychological risks of Vietnam:
The NVVRS perspective. Journal of Traumatic Stress 20:467-479.
12. Willging CE, Tremaine L, Hough RL, Reichman JS, Adelsheim S,
Meador K, Downes B (2007). “We never used to do things this way”:
Behavioral health reform in New Mexico. Psychiatric Services 58:
1529-1531.
13. Lindamer LA, Lebowitz BD, Hough RL, Garcia P, Aguirre A, Halpain
MC, Depp C, Jeste DV (2008). Public-Academic partnerships:
Improving care for older persons with schizophrenia through an
Academic-County Partnership. Psychiatric Services 59:236-239.
14. Yamada AM, Harding CM, Hough RL (2009). A retrospective study of
delayed receipt of initial psychiatric services in a tri-ethnic community
sample of adults with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research
108:305-306
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