Michael D. Brubaker is Professor of Counseling and Associate Director in the School of Human Services in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Licensed to practice chemical dependency counseling in Ohio, he is also a Nationally Certified Counselor. He received his Ph.D. in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida, his M.S. in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University, his M.Div. from Emory University, and his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Richardson is an interdisciplinary researcher focused on evaluating the validity of theoretical constructs, developmental theories, and scores derived from psychosocial measures. His research program has four overlapping strands. With support from the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA029762), the first strand attends to substance use disorder and recovery, developing and evaluating etiological theories and related measures, with an increasing focus on alcohol use. The second strand is comprised of evaluations of evolutionary-developmental theories of individual differences in high-risk traits and behaviors such as substance use. The third focuses on reducing bias in measures used to assess diverse groups by (a) directly identifying and addressing bias in certain instruments, and (b) refining and promoting the uptake of the methods for identifying item biases. The fourth uses twin and family designs to conduct tests of developmental theories using controls for unobserved familial confounds.
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