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
- Project RELATE
- Alcohol-focused Support of Survivors In Sororities Training (ASSIST)
- THRIVE Study
- 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
(2024 Mar 15)
J Mol Diagn
Sippert E, Volkova E, Rippee-Brooks M, Denomme GA, Flegel WA, Lee C, Araojo R, Illoh O, Liu Z, Rios M, Collaborative Study Group
(2024 Mar 15)
J Clin Neurosci 122(): 93-102
Wang AJ, Lee CK, Blanch M, Talati PA, Gray ST, Bleier BS, Scangas GA, Holbrook EH, Curry WT
(2024 Mar 10)
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
Ricciuto A, Liu K, El-Matary W, Amin M, Amir AZ, Aumar M, Auth M, Di Guglielmo MD, Druve Tavares Fagundes E, Rodrigues Ferreira A, Furuya KN, Gupta N, Guthery S, Horslen SP, Jensen K, Kamath BM, Kerkar N, Koot BGP, Laborda TJ, Lee CK, Loomes KM, Mack C, Martinez M, Montano-Loza A, Ovchinsky N, Papadopoulou A, Perito ER, Sathya P, Schwarz KB, Shah U, Shteyer E, Soufi N, Stevens JP, Taylor A, Tessier ME, Valentino P, Woynarowski M, Deneau M, Pediatric PSC Consortium
(2024 Jun)
Addict Behav 153(): 108004
Litt DM, Zhou Z, Fairlie AM, Graupensperger S, Cross A, Kannard E, Lee CM, Lewis MA
(2024 Mar)
Clin Transl Sci 17(3): e13741
Dagenais S, Lee C, Cronenberger C, Wang E, Sahasrabudhe V
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