Lloyd A Goldsamt

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Lloyd A Goldsamt

PhD

Senior Research Scientist

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Lloyd A. Goldsamt, PhD, is a senior research scientist at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State. He has conducted NIH-funded research and community-based evaluations for more than 25 years. His primary research area is HIV and STI prevention among high-risk youth populations, including men who have sex with men, male sex workers, and injection drug users. Dr. Goldsamt is also on the faculty of the Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute and the Associate Director of the Dissemination Core at the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research in the NYU School of Global Public Health.

Dr. Goldsamt has conducted training and program evaluations locally and nationally, focusing on drug courts and community-based organizations working to prevent HIV and drug abuse. He is currently the Evaluator for the Brooklyn Treatment Court, an Evaluator on an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) project developing nationwide Juvenile Drug Court Learning Collaboratives, and an Evaluation Consultant for the OJJDP Opioid Affected Youth Initiative.

Dr. Goldsamt holds a PhD and MA in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

PhD, Clinical Psychology - State University of New York at Stony Brook
MA - State University of New York at Stony Brook
BA - University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Interpersonal and intrapersonal focus in cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic—interpersonal therapies: A preliminary analysis of the sheffield project

Kerr, S., Goldfried, M. R., Hayes, A. M., Castonguay, L. G., & Goldsamt, L. A. (1992). Psychotherapy Research, 2(4), 266-276. 10.1080/10503309212331333024
Abstract
Abstract
Using a coding system designed to assess therapists’ in-session focus, we conducted a preliminary investigation of the differential emphasis placed on client’s intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning with interim data collected from an outcome study of a cognitive—behavioral (prescrip-tive) therapy and psychodynamic—interpersonal (exploratory) therapy. Consistent with theory, exploratory therapists made more interpersonal links relative to intrapersonal links. Contrary to theoretical expectation, there was a tendency for prescriptive therapists to place more of a focus on interpersonal, rather than intrapersonal, links. A between-group com-parison revealed that there was no difference between the therapies in their emphasis on intrapersonal or interpersonal links. However, only in exploratory therapy were there positive correlations approaching statis-tical signilicance between the focus on interpersonal links and clienfs improvement in self-esteem and social adjustment. There was also a marginally significant positive correlation between prescriptive therapists’ focus on intrapersonal links and symptom improvement. Although the findings suggest differential mechanisms of change across these two therapeutic orientations, the results should be interpreted cautiously until they can be replicated with a larger sample.

Does Affect Induce Self-Focused Attention?

Wood, J. V., Saltzberg, J. A., & Goldsamt, L. A. (1990). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(5), 899-908. 10.1037/0022-3514.58.5.899
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Abstract
Despite growing evidence that depression is linked with self-focused attention, little is known about how depressed individuals become self-focused or, more generally, about what arouses self-focus in everyday life. Two experiments examined the hypothesis that affect itself induces self-focused attention. In Experiment 1, moods were manipulated with an imagination mood-induction procedure. Sad-induction Ss became higher in self-focus than did neutral-induction Ss. Experiment 2 replicated this effect for sad moods by means of a musical mood-induction procedure and different measures of self-focus. However, Experiment 2 failed to support the hypothesis that happy moods induce self-focus. The results have implications for mood-induction research, self-focused attention, and recent models of depression.