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Training > Psychology Training Faculty > Josh Smith 

Joshua P. Smith, Ph.D.    

Dr. Smith is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs (CDAP) in MUSC's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Psychology with Academic Distinction from Sam Houston State University, and he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Cincinnati in the Clinical Health Psychology track. He completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Charleston Consortium Psychology Internship Program at MUSC. Dr. Smith's research interests include psychopathology and treatment models of co-occurring anxiety and alcohol use disorders, gender issues in help-seeking, motivational interviewing and other brief interventions for substance use disorders, and psychological measurement. His clinical work represents a blend of his research interests, and includes program development as Coordinator of  CDAP Clinical Specialty Projects. This work involves developing and integrating empirically-based treatments for substance use and co-occurring disorders into CDAP's extant substance use treatment programming.

Select Honors/Awards:

2008       Scientist-Practitioner Award, Charleston Consortium 
                     Clinical Psychology Internship Program
2008       Research Society on Alcoholism Student Merit Award
2008       Anxiety Disorders Association of America Career Development Travel Award
2006       Graduate Student of the Year Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Social and 
                      Behavioral Sciences, Graduate Student Governance Association, 
                      University of Cincinnati
    

Select Publications

·        Tran, G.Q., & Smith, J.P. (2003). Behavioral assessment in the measurement of treatment outcome. In M. Hersen (Ed.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
·        Tran, G.Q., Anthenelli, R.M., Smith, J.P., Corcoran, K.J., & Rofey, D.L. (2004).
Alcohol use, cognitive correlates of drinking and change readiness in hazardous
drinkers with low and high social anxiety. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65, 715-724.
·        Smith, J.P. & Tran, G.Q. (2007). Development and validation of the Worry-Reduction Alcohol Expectancy Scale. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 2383-2390.
·        Smith, J.P. & Tran, G.Q. (2007). Does negative affect increase change readiness in
undergraduate drinking behavior? Addictive Behaviors, 32, 2281-2285.
·        Tran, G Q., Smith, J. P., Goldsmith, A. A., & Thompson, R. T. (2007). Current research in
the anxiety and alcohol research program: Anxiety-alcohol relationships in college hazardous drinkers. Anxiety Disorders: A Quarterly Report, 4, 4-8.
·        Heffner, J.L., Blom, T., Camerota, E., Sansone, L., Bodie, L., Smith, J., Lin, S., Drake, M., Meyer, C., & Anthenelli, R.M. (2007). Interrelated effects of substance use diagnosis, race, and smoking severity on abstinence initiation in dually-dependent male smokers: Results of a retrospective chart review. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 1, 191-197.
·        Tran, G.Q., & Smith, J.P. (2008). Comorbidity of social anxiety and alcohol use
disorders: Review of psychopathology research findings. In P. Conrod and S. Stewart (Eds.), Anxiety and substance use disorders: The vicious cycle of co-morbidity. New York, NY:
Springer.
·        Smith, J.P., Tran, G.Q., & Thompson, R.D. (2008). Can the Theory of Planned Behavior help explain men’s psychological help-seeking? Evidence for a mediation effect and clinical implications. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 9, 179-192.
·        Smith, J.P., Goldsmith, A.A., & Thompson, R.D. (in press). Gender issues in substance abuse prevention and treatment. In G. L. Fisher & N.A. Roget (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
·        Smith, J. P., & Book, S. W. (2008). Anxiety and substance use disorders: A review. Psychiatric Times, 25 (Supplement), 19-23.

Select Presentations

·        Smith, J.P., Tran, G.Q., Penko, S.M., & Stewart, S. (2002, August). Does negative affect enhance change readiness in undergraduate drinking behavior? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
·        Smith, J.P., & Tran, G.Q. (2002, November). The relationship between generalized
anxiety symptoms and heavy drinking in negative affect situations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior
Therapy, Reno, NV.
·        Tran, G.Q., Smith, J.P., Rofey, D.L., & Corcoran, K.J. (2002, November). Social anxiety and alcohol use problems in college drinkers. In C.L. Randall and G.Q. Tran (Co-chairs), Comorbidity of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorders: A lifespan approach to preventive interventions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, NV.
·        Smith, J.P., Liu, W., Leahy, M., Camerota, E., Sansone, L., Bodie, L., & Anthenelli,
R.M. (2004, February). Smoking cessation among African-American men in residential substance abuse rehabilitation: A pilot study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Scottsdale, AZ.
·        Tran, G.Q., Smith, J.P., & Angkaw, A.C. (2004, June). Heavy drinking in socially
anxious college students: A test of social cognitive theory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Vancouver, British Columbia.
·        Smith, J.P., Tran, G.Q., & Angkaw, A.C. (2004, November). Development and validation of the Worry-Reduction Alcohol Expectancy Scale. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group, New Orleans, LA.
·        Anthenelli, R.M., Smith, J.P., Blom, T., Lin, S., Camerota, E., Sansone, L., Bodie, L. (2005, March). Concurrent treatment of tobacco, alcohol and cocaine dependence:  Effects of race and smoking severity on smoking cessation outcome. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Prague, CZ.
·        Sansone, N., Smith, J.P., & Tran, G.Q. (2006, October). Psychometric evaluation of the Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index when used with college students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Ohio Psychological Association (OPA), Columbus, OH.
·        Smith, J.P., Tran, G.Q., & Sansone, N. (2006, November). Alcohol-related problems
among college men. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association  for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Chicago, IL.
·        Smith, J.P., Tran, G.Q., & Thompson, R.T. (2007, November). Investigation of a basic model of men’s psychological help-seeking: Evidence for a mediation effect and clinical implications. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Men’s Mental and Physical Health Special Interest Group, Philadelphia, PA.
·        Smith, J. P., Tran, G. Q., & Goldsmith, A. A. (2007, November). Worry-reduction alcohol expectancies in the relationship between generalized anxiety and hazardous drinking: Mediation effect and classification ability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Philadelphia, PA.
·        Tran, G. Q., Smith, J. P., & Corcoran, K. J. (2007, November). Development and pilot outcome data for the Brief Intervention for Socially Anxious Drinkers. In L. Ham (Chair), Drinking to Cope with Anxiety: Understanding the Mechanisms and Clinical Implications for College Students. Paper presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
·        Smith, J. P., & Book, S. W. (2008, July) Comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorders among individuals seeking outpatient substance abuse treatment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Washington, D.C.

Complete CV upon request.

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