Research Interests:

• Eating Disorders/Obesity Area:
• 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 designing a study that will address body dissatisfaction prior to a 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 popular eating disorder measures (EAT, EDE-Q, EDI) in ethnic/racial minority populations, given that they were standardized (many years ago) on non-Hispanic White women.
• Examining the contributions and limitations of ecological momentary assessment.
• Exploring "healthy eating" and "dieting": what exactly do these mean to college students, and what kind of problems do they create?
• Substance Use Treatment Area:
• Determining the ways in which CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) can be culturally modified to better suit Native American populations.
• 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.

Profile:

Selected Publications

Books (selected)

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., & Meyers, R. J. (2004). Motivating substance abusers to enter treatment: Working with family members. New York: Guilford.

Meyers, R. J. & Smith, J. E. (1995). Clinical guide to alcohol treatment: The community reinforcement approach (211 pp). New York: Guilford.  

Articles in Refereed Journals (selected)

Eating Disorders/Obesity Area:

Serier, K. N., Smith, J. M., Finstad, E.M., Laframboise, D., Erickson, B., Moreshead, M., & Smith, J. E. (in press).  Perceived conflict and support among women with bulimia nervosa compared to women with depression and healthy controls: An experimental manipulation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Serier, K., N., Smith, J. E., & Yeater, E. (in press). Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in a non-clinical sample of non-Hispanic White and Hispanic women. Eating Behaviors.

Serier, K. N., Smith, J. E., Lash, D. N., Gianini, L. M., Harriger, J. A., Sarafin, R. E., & Wolfe, B. L. (2018). Obligatory exercise and coping in treatment-seeking women with poor body image. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity, 23, 331-338. 

McLaughlin, E., Smith, J. E., Serier, K., Smith, J., Santistevan, D., & Simmons, J. (2018). What does self-reported “dieting” mean? Evidence from a daily diary study of behavior. Appetite, 127, 79-86. 

Austin, J. L. Serier, K. N., Sarafin, R. E., & Smith, J. E. (2017). Body dissatisfaction predicts poor behavioral weight loss treatment adherence in overweight Mexican American women, Body Image, 23, 155-161. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Substance Use Treatment Area:

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Courses Taught

• PSY 335L: Clinical Psychology Lab
• PSY 332: Abnormal Behavior
• PSY 532: Psychpathology
• PSY 637: Empirically Supported Treatments

Current Graduate Student Lab Members

Jeremiah Simmons

Riley Sebastian

Kelsey Serier

Jamie Smith

 I am likely accepting a student for Fall 2020.  If you are interested in applying to work in my lab please email me your interests and your CV.