Dr. Scott M. Hyman, a licensed clinical psychologist, earned his Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University in 2003 after completing his pre-doctoral internship at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology/Boston VA Healthcare System (Rotations included the VA Outpatient Clinics, Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program, Crisis Stabilization Clinic, and National Center for PTSD). From 2003 to 2009, Dr. Hyman was at the Yale University School of Medicine, first as a NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA T32) postdoctoral fellow and then as a faculty level 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 a number of research articles and book chapters in these areas. In addition to his scholarly activities, he also functioned as a clinician, educator, and supervisor providing psychotherapy to substance dependent individuals at the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit (SATU) of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and teaching medical students and supervising psychology interns at Yale University. From 2013-2016, he served as a Research Scientist within the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at The University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine directing 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 has also served as the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) Chairperson.

Clinical Psychology; Stress, Self-Control, and Addiction