Education
Post-doctoral – Center for Health Services Research, Brown University, Providence, RI
Ph.D. in Social Welfare, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, MO
MSW, Boston College School of Social Work, Chestnut Hill, MA
BA, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
Background
In 1990, Dr. Rice joined the faculty at the Center on Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS), Brown University as an Assistant Professor (Research). He held a joint appointment with the Department of Human Behavior and Psychiatry. While at CAAS, Dr. Rice was a faculty mentor for the post-doctoral training program on early intervention and treatment for substance abuse.
Dr. Rice moved to the School of Social Work at SUNY-Buffalo in 1997, were he taught research methods, and social welfare policy courses in both the MSW and Ph.D. programs. He joined the faculty at FIU in 2000. Dr. Rice is a licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Courses
He teaches research methods, advanced statistical techniques, social welfare policy, and addiction treatment classes in the MSW and Ph.D. programs.
Research
Dr. Rice is currently Principal Investigator of Research Training Core of the Center for Research on US Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (CRUSADA – http://crusada.fiu.edu) and Principal Investigator of Development of a Culturally Congruent Latino Residential Treatment. These projects receive funding through the National Center on Minority Health Disparities (NCMHD). In 2008, Dr. Rice completed work on “Predicting the Trajectories of Abstinence/Drinking Dyads” a research project funded through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). He has been Principal or Co-Principal Investigator for six other externally funded research grants. While small in scope these research efforts have all contained some aspect of brief motivationally based intervention with health related behaviors, principally substance abuse. Three of these projects were specifically designed to promote the adoption of brief intervention techniques by Social Workers.
Selected Publications:
Rahill, G., Pinto-Lopez, E.,Vanderbeist, A, & Rice, C., (2009). What is a relapse? A Contemporary Exploration of Treatment of Alcoholism. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 9, 245-262.
Dillon, F., Ortiz, M.F., Rice, C., Rojas, P., & Duan, R. (2009). Validating the multidimensional measure of cultural identity scales for Latinos among Latina mothers and daughters. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 15(2), 191-201
Pinto, E., Rice, C., Weddle, D.O., & Rahill, G.J. (2008). The relationship among cardiovascular risk factors, dietary patterns, alcohol consumption, and ethnicity among women aged 50 years and above. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 108, 248-256.
De La Rosa, M., Rice, C., & Rugh, D. (2007). Understanding Latino family attitudes in relation to Latino gang members’ substance abuse: A content analysis. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(4), 1-18.
Rice, C. (2007). Retest reliability of self-reported daily drinking: Form 90. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68, 615 – 618.
De La Rosa, M., Rugh, D., & Rice, C. (2006). An analysis of risk domains associated with drug use transitions of active Latino gang members. Journal of Addictive Disease, 25(4), 81- 90.
Rice, C. (2006). Misperception of college drinking norms: ethnic/race differences. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 14 (4), 17-30
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