Research Interests:

• Determining why ethnic minority women prematurely drop out of weight management treatment, and how to address this dilemma. We have learned that two factors in particular lead to early termination: extremely poor body image and "familism" (family comes first). We ran focus groups to follow up on these issues, and we are beginning to design a study that will incorporate the implicated changes in a modified weight management intervention.
• Examining the factors in a mother-daughter relationship that appear to serve a protective role against poor body image and disturbed eating in the daughter.
• Exploring the use of standard eating disorder measures (EAT, EDE-Q, EDI) in ethnic minority populations, and examining whether these measures (which were developed many years ago in some cases) are still valid with Caucasian populations today.
• Exploring "healthy eating" and "dieting": what exactly do these mean to college students?
• Examining an online abbreviated version of a behavioral program, the Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA) with college students in an effort to see if they can add enjoyable, healthy activities to their week that compete with substance use.
• Determining whether a therapist's competence (skill) in delivering CRA affects the client's outcome in a substance abuse treatment program.
• Examining ethnic differences in high school students' substance use as related to resilience factors.

Selected Publications

Books

• Godley, S.H., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, M. D. (2016) The adolescent community reinforcement approach: A clinical guide for treating substance use disorders.  Chestnut Health Systems, Normal, IL.

• Smith, J. E., & Meyers, R. J. (2010). Community reinforcement and family training (CRAFT) therapist coding manual [Individual session version]. Bloomington, IL: Lighthouse Institute.

• Smith, J. E., Lundy, S. L., & Gianini, L. (2007). Community reinforcement approach (CRA) and adolescent community reinforcement approach (A-CRA) therapist coding manual. Bloomington, IL: Chestnut Health Systems Press. 

• Smith, J. E., & Meyers, R. J. (2004). Motivating substance abusers to enter treatment: Working with family members. New York: Guilford. [Note: translated into Finnish, German, Korean, Japanese] 

• Meyers, R. J. & Smith, J. E. (1995). Clinical guide to alcohol treatment: The community reinforcement approach (211 pp). New York: Guilford. [Note: translated into German, Dutch] 

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals:

• Godley, M. D., Passetti, L. L., Subramaniam, G. A., Funk, R. R., Smith, J. E., & Meyers, R. J. (2017) Adolescent community reinforcement approach implementation and treatment outcomes for youth with opiod problem use.  Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 174, 9-16.

• Campos-Melady, M., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., Godley, S. H., & Godley, M. D. (2017). The effect of therapists' adherence adn competence in delivering the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach on client outcomes.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31, 117-129.

• Smith, J. E., Erickson, S. J., Austin, J. L., Winn, J. L., Lash, D. N., & Amrhein, P. C. (2016). Mother-daughter relationship quality and body image in preadolescent girls. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 25, 2683-2694.

• Venner, K. L., Greenfield, B. L., Hagler, K. J., Simmons, J., Lupee, D., Homer, E., Yamutewa, Y., & Smith, J. E. (2016). Pilot outcome results of culturally-adapted evidence-based substance use disorder treatment with a Southwest Tribe. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 3, 21-27.

• McLaughlin, E. A., Campos-Melady, M., Smith, J. E., Serier, K. N., Belon, K. E., Simmons, J. D., & Kelton, K. (2016). The role of familism in weight loss treatment for Mexican American women. Journal of Health Psychology, 1-14.

• Heying, S. A., Witherington, D. C., Smith, J. E., & Gibbons, J. L. (2016). Posttraumatic distress and growth among Guatemalan war orphans in adulthood. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 5, 18-33.

• Stevens, C. J., Smith, J. E., & Bryan, A. D. (2016). A pilot study of women’s affective responses to common and uncommon forms of aerobic exercise. Psychology and Health, 31, 239-257.

• Lash, D. N., Smith, J. E., & Rinehart, J. K. (2016). Can the theory of planned behavior predict dietary intention and future dieting in an ethnically diverse sample of overweight and obese veterans attending medical clinics. Appetite, 99, 185-192.

• McLaughlin, E. A., Belon, K. E., Smith, J. E., & Erickson, S. J. (2015). Mothers’ and daughters’ beliefs about factors affecting preadolescent girls’ body satisfaction. Body Image, 13, 9-17.

• Belon, K. E., McLaughlin, E. A., Smith, J. E., Bryan, A. D., Witkiewitz, K, Lash, D. N., & Winn, J. L. (2015). Testing the measurement invariance of the Eating Disorder Inventory in non-clinical samples of Hispanic and Caucasian women. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 48, 262-270.

• Vigil, J. M., Strenth, C. R., Mueller, A. A., DiDomenico, J., Beltran, D. G., Coulombe, P., & Smith, J.E. (2015). The curse of curves: Sex differences in the associations between body shape and pain expression. Human Nature, 26, 235-254.

• Meyers, R. J., Roozen, H. G., Smith, J. E., & Evans, B. E. (2014). Reasons for entering treatment reported by initially treatment-resistant patients with substance use disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 43, 299-309.

• Godley, S. R., Hunter, B. D., Fernandez-Artamendi, S., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, M. D. (2014). A comparison of treatment outcomes for Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach participants with and without co-occurring problems. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 46, 463-471.

• Smith, J. E., Gianini, L. M., Garner, B. R., Malek, K. L., & Godley, S. H. (2014). A behaviorally-anchored rating system to monitor treatment integrity for community clinicians using the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 23, 185-199.

• Garner, B. R., Hunter, B. D., Smith, D. C., Smith, J. E., & Godley, M. D. (2014). The relationship between child maltreatment and substance abuse treatment outcomes among emerging adults and adolescents. Child Maltreatment, 19, 261-269.

• Godley, S. H., Smith, J. E., Passetti, L. L., & Subramaniam, G. (2014). The adolescent community reinforcement approach (A-CRA) as a model paradigm for the management of adolescents with substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Substance Abuse, 35, 352-363.

• Austin, J. L., Smith, J. E., Gianini, L., &  Campos-Melady, M. (2013). Attitudinal familism predicts weight management adherence in Mexican-American women. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 36, 259-269.

• Manuel, J. K., Austin, J. L., Miller, W. R., McCrady, B. S., Tonigan, J. S., Meyers, R. J., Smith, J. E., & Bogenschutz, M. P. (2012). Community reinforcement and family training: A pilot comparison of group and self-directed delivery. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 43, 129-136.

• Campos-Melady, M., & Smith, J. E. (2012). Memory associations between negative emotions and alcohol on the lexical decision task predict alcohol use in women. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 60-66. 

• Belon, K. E., Smith, J. E., Bryan. A. D., Lash, D. N., Winn, J. L., & Gianini, L. M. (2011). Measurement invariance of the Eating Attitudes Test-26 in Caucasian and Hispanic women. Eating Behaviors, 12, 317-320.

• Godley, S. H., Garner, B. R., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, R. J. (2011). A large-scale dissemination and implementation model. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 18, 68-84.

• Harriger, J. A., Calogero, R. M., Witherington, D. C., & Smith, J. E. (2010). Body size stereotyping and internalization of the thin ideal in preschool girls. Sex Roles, 63, 609-620.

• Garner, B. R., Godley, S. H., Funk, R. R., Dennis, M.L., Smith, J. E., & Godley, M. D. (2009). Exposure to adolescent community reinforcement approach (A-CRA) treatment procedures as a mediator of the relationship between adolescent substance abuse treatment retention and outcome. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 36, 252-264.

Courses Taught

• PSY 335L: Clinical Psychology Lab

• PSY 332: Abnormal Behavior

• PSY 637: Empirically Supported Treatments

Current Graduate Student Lab Members

Jeremiah Simmons

Kelsey Serier

Jamie Smith

** I plan to take a new student this year (to start in Fall 2018).