Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with Richard Jessor

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Richard Jessor, Ph.D., Sc.D., is Distinguished Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Research Professor of Behavioral Science; and Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Faculty, Health and Society Program. One of the founders of the university's Institute of Behavioral Science in 1959, he served as its Director from 1980 to 2001 and currently directs its Health and Society Program. For the past fifty-seven years, he has also been a professor in the CU Department of Psychology; he is the longest-serving faculty member at the university. From 1987 to 1997, he directed the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Adolescent Development Among Youth in High-Risk Settings. His areas of research include adolescent and young adult development, the social psychology of risk behavior, health behavior, and psychosocial aspects of poverty. Jessor has been consultant to numerous organizations, including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Academy of Sciences, Health and Welfare, Canada, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the Population Council, and others. He has been awarded fellowships by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Social Science Research Council, and, in 1995-96, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He has served as a member of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, the National Research Council Committee on Child Development Research and Public Policy, and the National Research Council's Panel on High-Risk Youth and, from 2001 to 2005, its Panel on The Transition to Adulthood in Developing Countries.Jessor's research has been continuously funded by federal and private agencies for over four decades. He has authored or edited more than 130 publications, including ten books. In 2003, he was designated a "Highly Cited Researcher" by the Institute for Scientific Information in the "Social Science: General" category. And in 2005, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine Award from the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Sources: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder. https://ibs.colorado.edu/people/richard-jessor/ Accessed 04 Feb 2023.