Current Title & Duties
Scott M. Hyman, Ph.D.
Professor - Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
Addiction Psychology Concentration Coordinator
Project Director: HRSA Graduate Psychology Education Program
Biography
Dr. Scott M. Hyman received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Binghamton University in 1998 and his PhD in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in 2003 after completing his clinical internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology-Boston VA Healthcare System.
From 2003 to 2009, Dr. Hyman held academic appointments at The Yale University School of Medicine, first as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a faculty rank Associate Research Scientist. He was a member of the Yale Stress Center and Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Stress, Self-Control, and Addiction (IRCSSA), which conducts cutting edge, interdisciplinary research to examine the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying human responses to stress and the role of self-control in driving unhealthy and addictive behaviors. His scholarly work has been primarily concerned with understanding the links between stress, traumatic stress, coping styles, drug cravings, and the course of substance use disorders, and he has authored numerous articles and book chapters in these and other areas including publications in The American Psychologist, The APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and The American Journal of Psychotherapy. In addition to his scholarly activities, he also functioned as a clinician, educator, and supervisor providing psychotherapy to substance dependent and dually diagnosed individuals at the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit (SATU) of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and teaching medical students and psychology trainees at Yale University. From 2013-2016, he served as a Research Scientist within the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine directing NIH-funded medication trials for substance addictions. He has been a Professor in the Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program at Albizu University from 2009 to the present and serves as the program’s Addiction Psychology Concentration Coordinator.
He is the recipient of a NIH Loan Repayment Award for Clinical Researchers, a NIDA Women and Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award, a NIH T32 Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), and two Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants to train doctoral psychology students in the evaluation and treatment of substance use disorders in integrated care settings.
Research / Research Interests
Stress and trauma effects on drug cravings and the course of addictive disorders; medications development for addictive disorders; cognitive-behavioral and motivational interventions for psychological trauma/PTSD and addictive disorders.
Academics, Education, Certifications
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Clinical Internship
The Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology- VA Boston Healthcare System
Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology
Nova Southeastern University, Center for Psychological Studies
Master of Science in Clinical Psychology
Nova Southeastern University, Center for Psychological Studies
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Binghamton University- State University of New York
Recent Publications
- Hyman, S.M. (2023). Opioid addiction and the lifesaving treatments available. South Florida Business Journal.
Hyman, S.M., Richardson, G.B., Andres-Hyman, R.C. & Fox, H.C. (2020) Substance use disorder. In Shackelford & Weekes-Shackelford (Eds). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.
Hyman, S.M. (2019). Integration of movement competency training to optimize behavioral interventions for child obesity: Comment on Wilfley et al. (2018). American Psychologist, 74, (5), 617-619.
Hermes, G., Hyman, S.M., Fogelman, N. Kosten, T.R., & Sinha, R. (2019). Lofexidine in combination with oral naltrexone for opioid use disorder relapse prevention: A pilot randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study. The American Journal on Addictions, 28, 480-488.
Hyman, S.M., & Gold, S.N. (2017). Anesthetizing open wounds: Substance addiction in male survivors of sexual victimization. In R. Gartner (Ed). Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma. (pp. 142-157). New York: Routledge.
Najavits, L.M., Hyman, S.M., Ruglass, L.M., Hien, D.A., & Read, J.P. (2017). Substance use disorder and trauma. In S. Gold, C. Dalenberg, & J. Cook. (Eds.), APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology (pp. 195-213). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Smith, J. Hyman, S.M., & Ruiz, J., Andres-Hyman, R.C., & Davidson, L. (2016). Applying recovery principles to the treatment of trauma. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 47(5), 347-355
Mejia, M., Hyman, S.M., Behbahanni, S. & Farell-Turner, K. (2016). Death anxiety and ageist attitudes are related to trainees’ interest in working with older adults. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education. 1-16.
Balsamo, D.N., Douaihy, A., Cornelious, J.R., Daley, D.C., Kirisci, L., Hyman, S.M. & Salloum, I. (2016). Differential impact of depressive and manic mood states on alcohol craving in co-morbid bipolar-alcoholism: Preliminary findings. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 15(3), 107-110.
Hyman, S.M. Khazai, L., Botros, M. Torres, Y. Miao, F., Cornelius, J., Mezzich, J. & Salloum, I. (2015). Gender comparisons on quality-of-life and co-morbid alcohol dependence and major depression. International Journal of Person- Centered Medicine, 5(1), 34-37.
Kostolitz, A. Hyman, S.M., & Gold, S.N. (2014). How ineffective family environments can compound maldevelopment of critical thinking skills in childhood abuse survivors. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23, 690-707.
Hyman, S.M. & Andres-Hyman, R.C. (2013). A strength-based exercise-training model of psychotherapy: Can principles derived from exercise and sport physiology guide behavioral prescriptions for physical and mental wellness? American Journal of Psychotherapy, 67(4), 367-383.
Andres-Hyman, R.C. & Hyman, S.M. (2013). An overview of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nova Law Review (Wounds of War: The Symposium Edition), 37(3), 617-630.
Ycaza, A., Hyman, S.M., & Behbahani, S. (2012). Relationships between personality characteristics and death awareness in a graduate student sample. Existential Analysis, 23(2), 278-287.
Hyman, S.M., Gold, S.N. & Sinha, R. (2010). Coping with stress and trauma in young adulthood. J. Grant & M. Potenza (Eds). Young Adult Mental Health, (pp. 143-157), Oxford University Press.
Hyman, S.M., Hong, K., Dabre, Z., Comegys, D., Kimmerling, A., & Sinha, R. (2009). A stress-coping profile of opioid dependent individuals entering naltrexone treatment: A comparison with healthy controls. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23(4), 613-619.
Hyman, S.M & Sinha, R. (2009). Stress-related factors in cannabis use and misuse: Implications for prevention and treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 36, 400-413.
Hyman, S.M., Paliwal, P., Chaplin, T., Mazure, C., Rounsaville, B. & Sinha, R. (2008). Severity of childhood trauma is predictive of cocaine relapse outcomes in women but not men. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 92, 208-216.
Paliwal, P, Hyman, S.M., & Sinha, R. (2008). Craving predicts time to cocaine relapse: Further validation of the now and brief versions of the Cocaine Craving Questionnaire. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 93, 252-259.
Hyman, S.M., Fox, H., Hong, K., Doebrick, C. & Sinha (2007). Stress and drug-cue induced craving in opioid dependent individuals in naltrexone treatment. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15(2), 134-43.
Hyman, S,M., Paliwal, P. & Sinha, R. (2007). Childhood maltreatment, perceived stress, and stress-related coping in recently abstinent cocaine dependent adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(2), 233-238.
Hyman, S,M., Garcia, M., & Sinha, R. (2006). Gender specific associations between types of childhood maltreatment and the onset, escalation, and severity of substance use in cocaine dependent adults. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 32, 655-664.
Hyman, S.M., Garcia, M., Kemp, K., Mazure, M., & Sinha, R. (2005). A gender specific psychometric analysis of the early trauma inventory short form in cocaine dependent adults. Addictive Behaviors, 30(4), 847-852.
Gold, S.N., Hyman, S.M., & Andres, R.C. (2004). Family of origin environments in two clinical samples of survivors of intra-familial, extra-familial, and both types of childhood sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 1199-1212.
Guttman, L.M., Sobell, L., Prevo, M., Toll, B., Gutwein, C., Sobell, M., & Hyman, S.M. (2004). Outcome research methodology of smoking cessation trials (1994-1998). Addictive Behaviors, 29, 441-463.
Hyman, S.M. & Schneider, B.A. (2004). The short-term treatment of a long-term interpersonal avoidance. Clinical Case Studies, 3(4), 313-332.
Hyman, S.M., Gold, S.N., & Cott, M., (2003). Forms of social support that moderate PTSD in childhood sexual abuse survivors. Journal of Family Violence, 18(5), 295-300.
