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
(2022 Dec 5)
AIDS Behav
Xu Q, McMann T, Godinez H, Nali MC, Li J, Cai M, Merenda C, Lee C, Araojo R, Mackey TK
(2022 Nov 29)
Microbiol Resour Announc
McIntosh T, Kucerova Z, Katz LS, Lilley CM, Rowe LA, Unoarumhi Y, Batra D, Burnett E, Smikle M, Lee C
(2022 Nov 28)
Psychol Addict Behav
Walukevich-Dienst K, Calhoun BH, Fairlie AM, Cadigan JM, Patrick ME, Lee CM
(2022 Nov 18)
Vaccine
McCormick DW, Hagan LM, Salvatore PP, Magleby R, Lee C, Sleweon S, Nicolae L, Dixon T, Banta R, Ogle I, Young C, Dusseau C, Ogden C, Browne H, Michael Metz J, Chen MH, Solano MI, Rogers S, Burgin A, Sheth M, Bankamp B, Tamin A, Harcourt JL, Tate JE, Kirking HL, COVID-19 Surge Diagnostics Laboratory Teams
(2022 Nov 21)
Toxins (Basel) 14(11):
Cunningham BR, Wharton RE, Lee C, Mojica MA, Krajewski LC, Gordon SC, Schaefer AM, Johnson RC, Hamelin EI
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