Research Interests:

• Body Image/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.
• Using EMA (Ecological Momentary Assessment) to examine intuitive eating.
• Examining the personal and relational impact of varying responses to "Fat Talk" in the context of female friendship.
• Understanding the relationship between nutritional preferences, actual food consumption, and body image.
• Exploring the role of media use and upward social comparisons in a biopsychosocial model of body dissatisfaction.
• 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.
• 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.
• Looking at trajectories for symptom change in a clinical sample of adolescents with comorbid problems (substance use and mental health issues), and the role that perceived social support may play.

Profile:

Selected Publications

Books (selected)

Smith, J. E., & Meyers, R. J. (in press). The CRAFT treatment manual: Working with family members of people with substance use problems. New York: Guilford Press.

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.

Articles in Refereed Journals (recent)

Body Image/Eating Disorders/Obesity Area:

Sahlan, R. N., Serier, K. N., & Smith, J. E. (in press). Exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) and measurement invariance of the Farsi version of the Children’s Eating Attitudes Test (F-ChEAT) among Iranian preadolescents across gender and age. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. 

Smith, J. M., Serier, K. N., McLaughlin, E. A., Witkiewitz, K., Sebastian, R., M., & Smith,  J.E. (2022). Development and psychometric evaluation of an empirically-derived daily checklist of weight control: Consumption-reduction strategies and health-focused strategies in college students. The Journal of American College Health, 70, 1577-1583. 

Belon, K. E., Serier, K. N., VanderJagt, H., & Smith, J. E. (2022). What is healthy eating? Exploring profiles of intuitive eating and nutritionally healthy eating in college women. American Journal of Health Promotion. DOI: 10.1177/08901171211073870 

Serier, K.N., Peterson, K. P., VanderJagt, H., Sebastian, R. M., Mullins, C.R., Medici, J., Smith, M., & Smith, J.E. (2021). Factor analytic support for the EDE-Q7 among American Indian/Alaska Native undergraduate women. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01335-w 

Serier, K. N., Sebastian, R. M., Smith, J. M., Mullins, C.R., & Smith, J. E. (2021). The Bulimia Test-Revised (BULIT-R): Psychometric properties in a non-clinical sample of White and Latina college women.  Eating Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101493 

McEntee, M. L., Serier, K. N., Smith, J. M., & Smith, J. E. (2021). Measurement validity of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) at the intersection of sex and ethnicity in an undergraduate sample. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 84, 102-111. 

Smith, J. M., Serier, K. N., Belon, K. E., Sebastian, R. M., & Smith, J.E. (2020). Evaluation of the relationships between dietary restraint, emotional eating, and intuitive eating moderated by sex. Appetite.              https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104817 

Smith, J. M., Smith, J. E., McLaughlin, E. A., Belon, K. E., Serier, K. N., Simmons, J. D.,Kelton, K., Arroyo, C., & Delaney, H. D. (2020). Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in Native American, Hispanic, and White college women. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity, 25, 347–355 

Serier, K. N., Belon, K. E., Smith, J. M., & Smith, J. E. (2019). Psychometric evaluation of the Power of Food Scale in a diverse sample: Measurement invariance across gender, ethnicity, and weight status. Eating Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.101336 

Serier, K. N., Smith, J. M., Finstad, E.M., Laframboise, D., Erickson, B., Moreshead, M., & Smith, J. E. (2019). 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, 38, 28-49. 

Serier, K., N., Smith, J. E., & Yeater, E. (2018). 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, 31, 53-59.

 Serier, K. N., Smith, J. E., Lash, D. N., Gianini, L. M., Harriger, J. A., Sarafin, R. E., & Wolfe, 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). Whatdoes 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. 

McLaughlin, E. A., Campos-Melady, M., Smith, J. E., Serier, K. N., Belon, K. E., Simmons, J. D., & Kelton, K. (2017). The role of familism in weight loss treatment for Mexican American women. Journal of Health Psychology, 22, 1510-1523.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

Substance Use Treatment Area:

Simmons, J.D., Smith, J. E., Erickson, S. J., & Warner, T. D. (2021). A factor analytic approach to understanding health risk behaviors and resilience among multi-racial/ethnic adolescents in New Mexico. Ethnicity and Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2021.1925227

Venner, K., Serier, K., Sarafin, R., Greenfield, B., Hirchak, K., Smith, J. E., & Witkiewitz, K. (in press). Culturally tailored evidence-based substance use disorder treatments are efficacious with an American Indian Southwest tribe: An open-label pilot-feasibility randomized controlled trial. Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15191 

Welsh, J. W., Passetti, L. L., Funk, R. R., Smith, J. E., Meyers, R. J., & Godley, M. D. (2019). Treatment retention and outcomes with the adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach in emerging adults with opioid use, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 51, 431-440.

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

Kirsten Peterson

Hayley VanderJagt

Catalina Pacheco