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The Gevirtz School
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara

Merith Cosden


Select Publications:

Cosden, M., Baker, A., Benki, C., Sarah, P., Sara, W. & Sullivan, K. (2010). Consumers' perspectives on successful and unsuccessful experiences in a Drug Treatment Court. Substance Use and Misuse, 45, 1033-1049.

Consumer study (click to open)

Cosden, M., Patz, S. & Smith, S. (2009). Do problems in information processing affect the process of psychotherapy for adults with LD or ADHD? Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 24, 165-173. 

Greenwell, A. & Cosden, M. (2009). The Relationship between Fatalism, Dissociation, and Trauma Symptoms in Latinos.  Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 10, 334-345.

Walker, S. & Cosden, M. (2007).  Reliability of college student self-reported drinking behavior.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 33, 405-409.

Cosden, M.A., Basch, J., Campos, E., Greenwell, A., Barazani, S. & Walker, S. (2006).  Effects of Motivation and Problem Severity on Court-Based Drug Treatment. Crime & Delinquency, 52, 599-618. 

Cosden, M, Ellens, J., Schnell, J. & Yamini-Diouf, Y. (2005).  Efficacy of a Mental Health Treatment Court with Assertive Community Treatment.  Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 199-214.

Cosden, M., Brown, C. & Elliott, K. (2002).  Developing self-understanding and self-esteem in children with learning disabilities (pp. 33-53).  In Bernice Wong and Mavis Donahue (Eds.), The Social Dimension of Learning Disabilities.  Erlbaum: New Jersey

Cosden, M. (2001).  Risk and resilience for substance abuse among adolescents and adults with learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34, 352-358.

Ko, S. & Cosden, M. (2001).  Do elementary school-based abuse prevention programs work? A high school follow-up. Psychology in the Schools, 38, 57-66.

Cosden, M., Elliott, K., Noble, S. & Kelemen, E. (1999).  Self-understanding and self-esteem in children with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 22, 279-291.

Cosden, M. & Cortez-Ison, E. (1999).  Sexual abuse, parental bonding, social support and program retention for women in substance abuse treatment.  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 16, 149-155.

Morrison, G. & Cosden, M. (1997).  Risk, resilience and adjustment of individuals with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 20, 43-60.

Cosden, M. & McNamara, J. (1997).  Self-concept and perceived social support among college students with and without learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly, 20, 2-12.

Rothman, H. & Cosden, M. (1995).  The relationship between self-perception of a learning disability and achievement, self-concept and social support.  Learning Disability Quarterly, 18, 203-214.

Kloomok, S. & Cosden, M. (1994).  Self-concept in children with learning disabilities: The relationship between global self-concept, academic ‘discounting,’ nonacademic self-concept, and perceived social support.  Learning Disability Quarterly, 17, 140-154.