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David L. Rabiner

David L. Rabiner

Associate Director for Program Evaluation Services, Center for Child and Family Policy; Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Phone: (919) 660-5720
Fax: (919) 660-5726
E-mail: drabiner@duke.edu
Office: 242 Sociology-Psychology Building
Mailing Address: 9 Flowers Drive Durham, NC 27708-0086
CV: Curriculum Vitae pdf

 

David Rabiner currently serves as the director of Program Evaluation Services at the Center for Child and Family Policy, the faculty advisor for the School Research Partnership Office, and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Rabiner's work focuses on ADHD and interventions to improve academic performance in children with attention difficulties. He has recently completed a study of two different computerized interventions for elementary school students with attention difficulties and a study of the misuse and abuse of ADHD medications among college students. He also has longstanding interests in improving the quality of care received by children with ADHD and in the relationship between children's social experience and their social cognitive functioning. Current projects include a longitudinal study of children with ADHD and a newly launched study to provide classroom behavior management training to elementary school teachers in two rural counties. These projects are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Education.

Rabiner has created a Web site where he makes available a number of ADHD/ADD resources. Everyone is welcome to visit the site and to sign up for "Attention Research Update," a monthly e-newsletter in which Rabiner reviews new studies on ADHD/ADD that are published in leading medical and psychology journals. The Web site: www.helpforadd.com.

Education:

  • PhD Duke University - 1987
  • A.B., Magna cum Laude Brown University, Providence, RI - 1980

Publications (More Publications)

  1. A.L. Green & D.L. Rabiner (2012) What do we really know about college students with ADHD? Neurotherapeutics
  2. D.B. Henry & The Multisite Violence Prevention Group (2012) Mediators of Effects of a Selective Family Focused Violence Prevention Approach for Middle School Students. Prevention Science
  3. H.R. White & D.L. Rabiner, Editors (2011) College Student Drinking and Drug Use: Multiple Perspectives on a Complex Problem.
  4. D.W. Murray, D.L. Rabiner, & K. Hardy (2011) Teacher Management Practices for 1st Graders with Attention Problems. Journal of Attention Disorders
  5. McCabe, S.E., Cranford, J.A., Teter, C.J., Rabiner, D.L., & Boyd, C.J (2011) Use, misuse and diversion of scheduled prescription medications by college students

Presentations

  1. "Evaluating and managing ADHD in a primary care setting", Invited presentation to the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, Asheville, NC, 1997
  2. Presented findings from Project CLASS on the instability of elevated teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms and the implications of this instability for the assessment of ADHD, Annual meeting of the Institute for Education Sciences, Washington, D.C., June, 2009
  3. presented intervention trial results, biannual International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopatholgy in Seattle., June, 2009
  4. New developments in the assessment and treatment of ADHD., ADD Clinic, Duke University Medical Center, May, 2011
  5. College students nonmedical ADHD medication use: Are students treating themseleves for attention difficulties?, Webinar for Washington State College Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention., October 21, 2010