Carroll Hughes, PhD

Adjunct Professor
Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Counseling
Graduate Program: Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-4325
Office Fax: 214-648-4455

carroll.hughes@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Carroll W. Hughes, PhD, ABPP, joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 1989 as a full professor, and is currently active in the doctoral Clinical Psychology department where he teaches Statistics and Research Methods to graduate students and serves as dissertation chairs. He also teaches psychiatry residents and Child Fellows. He has directed or served on over 80 dissertation committees. Currently, his research focuses on exercise to treat depressed adolescents, dissemination of research information for pediatric psychiatry into the public sector, the impact of maternal depression on children and adolescents, and psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in pediatric depression and ADHD. He is also involved in the development of treatment algorithms for pediatric depression and ADHD, as well as the development of rating scales for pediatric psychiatry. Dr. Hughes has over 100 publications involving psychiatric disorders mostly in children and adolescents. Dr. Hughes formerly served as the Director of Psychology at Terrell State Hospital in Terrell, Texas for 12 years. There, he was the supervisor of a 32-member department and APA-approved internship program.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Missouri-Columbia (1973)

Research Interests

Effects of maternal depression on children and adolescents
Implementation of treatment algorithms for pediatric depression in the community
Pediatric depression: Exercise to treat depression
Pharmacological treatment of depression in children and adolescents
Treatment-resistant depression

Publications

Featured
Effect of structured interviews on evaluation time in pediatric community mental health settings.

Hughes CW, Emslie GJ, Wohlfahrt H, Winslow R, Kashner TM, Rush AJ. , Journal of Psychiatric Services , September 2005; (56(9)):1098-1103.

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Remission of maternal depression reduces psychopathology in their children: A STAR*D Child report.

Weissman MM, Pilowsky DJ, Wickramaratne PJ, Ardesheer T, Wisniewski S, Fava M, Hughes CW et al. , Journal of the American Medical Association , March 2006; (in press)

Featured
A revised anchored version of the BPRS-C for childhood psychiatric disorders

Hughes CW, Rintelmann J, Emslie GJ, et al , J Child Adolesc Psychopharm , 2001; ((11)1):77-93

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Structured interview and uniform assessment improves diagnostic reliability

Hughes CW, Rintelmann J, Mayes T, Emslie GJ, Pearson G, Rush AJ , J Child Adolesc Psychopharm , 2000; (10(2)):119-131

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The Texas Childhood Medication Algorithm Project: Report of the Texas Consensus Conference Panel on Medication Treatment of Childhood Major Depression Disorder

Hughes CW, Emslie GJ, Crismon ML, et al , J Amer Acad Child Adolesc Psychiat , 1999; (38):1442-1454

Texas Children’s Medication Algorithm Project: Update from Texas Consensus Conference Panel on Medication Treatment of Childhood Major Depressive Disorder

Hughes, CW, Emslie, GJ, Crismon, ML, et al. , J. Amer. Acad. Child Adolesc Psychiatry , June 2007; (46(6)):667-686

The Texas Children`s Medication Algorithm Project (CMAP): A Revision of the Algorithm for Medication Treatment of Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Pliszka SR, Crismon ML, Hughes CW, et al. , Journal of the American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , June 2006; (45(6))

Switching to another SSRI or to venlafaxine with or without cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with SSRI-Resistant depression

Brent D, Emslie GJ, Clarke GC, Wagner KD, Asarnow JR, Keller M, et al. Hughes, CW et al. , Journal of the American Medical Association , February 2008; (299(8)):901-913

Fluoxetine versus placebo in preventing relapse of major depression in children and adoelscents

Emslie GJ, Kennard BD, Nightingale-Teresi J, Carmody T, Hughes CW, et al , American Journal of Psychiatry , February 2008;

Fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and their combination for adolescents with depression: Treatment fo Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) randomized controlled trial.

Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study Team , Journal of the American Medical Association , 2004; (292):807-820

Honors/Awards

APA Fellow

Society of Clinical Psychology (2008)

APA Fellow

Division of Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse (2007)

Phi Kappa Phi

(1981)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Psychological Association

APA Society for Clinical Psychologists

Dallas Psychological Association

National Register Professional Psychologists

Texas Psychological Association