Rachel R. Tambling

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

Primary Research Theme

People and the City

Secondary Research Themes

Healthy Cities

Research Interests

Dr. Tambling’s research is centered on intervention and service utilization in behavioral health. She is specifically interested in service initiation, client engagement, and clinical, intervention, and program evaluation outcomes. Dr. Tambling is also interested in health equity, and the ways in which social determinants of health impact behavioral health service utilization. She is interested in mental health and substance use treatment services help-seeking, utilization, and reimbursement. She is interested in research that explores ways to address barriers to health equity, including expanding the availability of family therapy interventions to populations who typically do not access or fail to benefit from therapy, and understanding the complex components of effective intervention. Dr. Tambling is also interested in the measurement of psychotherapeutic constructs and the ways in which measurement impacts outcomes of behavioral health services.

Recent Cities-Related Projects

  • The Ideal Care Model – An Innovative, Patient-Centered Approach to the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: This is an ongoing project in which funding was obtained to test an interventional model for diabetes management. The target population is urban dwelling (Hartford and New Haven) adults with Type II diabetes.

Selected Urban-Related Publications

Tambling, R. & Johnson, S. K. (Published online). Personal, familial, and service-related predictors of outcome in Intensive Family Preservation Services treatment. Journal of Social Service Research. DOI: 10.1080/01488376.2020.1861167

  • This is an investigation into the personal, familial, and service-related predictors of re-referral to Intensive Family Preservation Services treatment, a CDF-affiliated intervention program.

 

Anderson, S. R., Banford-Witting, A., Tambling, R., Ketring, S., & Johnson, L. N. (2019). Pressure to attend therapy, dyadic adjustment, and adverse childhood experiences: Direct and indirect effects on the therapeutic alliance in couples therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 46 (2). DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12394

  • This study examined the impact of ACEs (including community-level variables) and other factors on engagement in psychotherapy.