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Brian T. Yates, Ph.D.

Dr. Yates consults on a variety of federally funded projects in health, alcohol, and drug addiction; media-based substance abuse prevention; mental health services for children and families; and multi-site studies of the costs, benefits, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit of adding consumer-operated services to traditional mental health services. He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed research publications. Most of his publications apply cost-effectiveness or cost-benefit analysis to the systematic evaluation and improvement of human services, and he has integrated psychological decision-making strategies and quasi-experimental design with concepts and methods adapted from economics and operations research in his model of Cost →Procedure →Process →Outcome Analysis.

Positions

  • Professor, Department of Psychology, American University

 

Education

  • Ph.D., 1976, Stanford University, Psychology

 

Relevant Publications

  • Yates, B. T., & Taub, J. (2003). Assessing the costs, benefits, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit of psychological assessment: We should, we can, and here's how. Psychological Assessment, 15, 478-495.
  • Yates, B. T. (2002). Roles for psychological procedures, and psychological processes, in cost-offset research: Cost → procedure → process → outcome analysis. In N. A. Cummings, W. T. O'Donohue, & K. E. Ferguson (Eds.), The impact of medical cost offset on practice and research: Making it work for you. (pp. 91-123). Reno, NV: Context Press.
  • Yates, B. T. (1999). Measuring and improving cost, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit for substance abuse treatment programs. Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH Publication Number 99-4518. http://www.nida.nih.gov/IMPCOST/IMPCOSTIndex.html
  • Yates, B. T. (1996). Analyzing costs, procedures, processes, and outcomes in human services: An introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Yates, B. T. (1994). Toward the incorporation of costs, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-benefit analysis into clinical research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62,729-736.

 

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