Dr. DiClemente is co-developer of the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change, and author of numerous scientific publications on motivation and behavior change with a variety of health and addictive behaviors. He has conducted funded research for the past 40 years with funding from NIH Institutes, SAMSHA, and Foundations. He published the second edition of his book Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover in 2018. He has co-authored several professional books, The Transtheoretical Model, Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change (second edition), and Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages of Change Therapy Manual (Second Edition) and a self-help book, Changing for Good.
For his work, he has received awards from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, as well as a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. In 2019 he received the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Jack Mendelson Honorary Lecture Award and the Alfred Wellner Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Register of Health Services Psychologists. In 2022 he was given the Senator Harold Hughes Memorial award for outstanding leadership in translating research into practice and helping to bridge Alcohol research, treatment, prevention, and policy making communities by NIAAA.
Dr. Carlo DiClemente received his Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and currently is a consultant, presenter and trainer for several projects at the University of Maryland and the Home Visiting Training Center at UMBC.
