Amy Copeland

Associate Professor

Clinical Area

Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone:(225) 578-4117
Fax: (225) 578-4125


copelan@lsu.edu

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PRESENT POSITIONS:

Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Louisiana State University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Director, LSU Psychological Services Center

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., 1997, Clinical Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton.
Internship & Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-1998, University of California, San Francisco.

TEACHING:

Psyc 7927 – Psychotherapy & Behavior Change
Psyc 7929 – Cultural Diversity Issues in Psychotherapy
Psyc 7688/7689 – Clinical Practicum
Psyc 7020 – Measurement of Behavior
Psyc 3083 – Clinical & Counseling Psychology
Psyc 2000 – Introduction to Psychology
Psyc 2999 & 4999 - Research & Honors Research Projects

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research interests focus on cognitive and affective variables in substance use initiation, maintenance, cessation, and relapse. I am primarily interested in licit (tobacco/nicotine) and illicit (cocaine, methamphetamine) psychomotor stimulants. More specifically, my interests include: 1) weight concern, beliefs about weight control, beliefs about health consequences, and stimulant use; 2) smoking cessation and relapse prevention as it pertains to high-risk cues for relapse; 3) prevention of substance use; and 4) impaired decision-making in substance use and cessation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Copeland, A. L., Terlecki, M. A., & Hecht, G. S. (in press). Invited chapter, Nicotine use and weight-related issues in women. In J. E. Landow (Ed.), Smoking Cessation: Theory, Interventions, & Prevention. Nova Publishers.

Copeland, A. L., Diefendorff, J. M., Kendzor, D. E., Rash, C. J., Businelle, M. S., Patterson, S. M. & Williamson, D. A. (in press). Measurement of Smoking Outcome Expectancies in Children: Development of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire-Child. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Williamson, D. A., Copeland, A. L., Anton, S., Champagne, C., Han, H., Lewis, L., Martin, C., Newton, R., Sothern, M., Stewart, T. M., & Ryan, D. (in press). Wise Mind project: A school-based environmental approach for preventing inappropriate weight gain in children. Obesity.

Kendzor, D. E., Copeland, A. L., Stewart, T. M., Businelle, M. S., & Williamson, D. A. (2007). Weight-Related Concerns Associated with Smoking in Young Children. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 598-607.

Copeland, A. L., Martin, P. D., Rash, C., Kendzor, D. E., & Geiselman, P. J. (2006). Predictors of attrition from smoking cessation treatment among pre- and postmenopausal weight-concerned women. Eating Behaviors, 7, 243-251.

Copeland, A. L., Martin, P.D., Rash, C. J., Kendzor, D. E., & Geiselman, P. J. (2006). Smoking cessation for weight-concerned women: Group versus individually tailored, dietary and weight control follow-up sessions. Addictive Behaviors, 31, 115-127.

Copeland, A. L. & Carney, C. E. (2003). Smoking expectancies as mediators between dietary restraint and disinhibition, and smoking in college females. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 11, 247-251.

Copeland, A. L. & Brandon, T. H. (2002). Do desirability ratings moderate the validity of probability ratings on the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire-Adult (SCQ-A)? A reanalysis using regression. Psychological Assessment, 14, 353-359.

 

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