
Christine Lee, PhD
Personal Statement
The transition to adulthood is the developmental period when alcohol use, marijuana use, and their associated consequences reach their lifetime peak. My scholarly interests focus on the etiology and prevention of substance use behaviors and consequences during adolescence and young/early adulthood. I have developed a highly successful portfolio of work bridging developmental, social, and motivational theory with applied prevention and intervention techniques to strategically address high-risk behaviors during the transition to adulthood.
My research addresses important questions regarding how recent marijuana legislation in Washington State impacts young adult marijuana use and consequences; what motivates young adults to engage in alcohol and marijuana use; how alcohol expectancies, alcohol use and consequences are linked in a natural feed-forward process that maintains high-risk behaviors; how developmental transitions and event timing influence use; and what are efficacious prevention and intervention strategies and for whom and under what conditions are these most effective.
Department Affiliations
- Reducing barriers to accessing mental health care using a web-based program for young adults
- COVID-19 Student Survey
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Outreach Communications Support
- Development of an interactive, web-based drinking to cope intervention and tools to assess coping skill utilization
- Affective Dynamics Associated with Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Outcomes among a High-risk Sample of Young Adults
- Project Reflect
- Young Adult Riding and Driving Study (YARD)
- Harm reduction in the context of social distancing
- Project ACE
- Project Transitions
- The Teen Identity Project (TIP)
- Project AMPS
- Project SAM Transitions
Recent Publications
(2023 Mar 20)
Pediatr Transplant
Batsis I, Elisofon S, Ferguson M, Jonas M, Kimball B, Lee C, Mitchell P, Fawaz R
(2023 Mar 16)
J Psychopathol Clin Sci
Dyar C, Lee CM, Rhew IC, Kaysen D
(2023 Feb 21)
Addict Behav 142(): 107670
Duckworth JC, Graupensperger S, Schultz NR, Gilson MS, Fairlie AM, Patrick ME, Lee CM
(2023 Mar 23)
J Clin Microbiol 61(3): e0014223
Walters C, Chen J, Stroika S, Katz LS, Turnsek M, Compère V, Im MS, Gomez S, McCullough A, Landaverde C, Putney J, Caidi H, Folster J, Carleton HA, Boncy J, Lee CC
(2023 Mar 3)
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 72(9): 223-226
Haston JC, Miko S, Cope JR, McKeel H, Walters C, Joseph LA, Griswold T, Katz LS, Andújar AA, Tourdot L, Rounds J, Vagnone P, Medus C, Harris J, Geist R, Neises D, Wiggington A, Smith T, Im MS, Wheeler C, Smith P, Carleton HA, Lee CC
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