Steven Y. Sussman , Ph.D. Professor Dr. Steve Sussman is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. He conducts research in the prediction, prevention, and cessation of tobacco and other drug abuse and in the utility of empirical program development methods. He is first author on the book Developing School-Based Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Programs (1995), based on his previous research in that arena. He is also the editor of Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice (2001), a leading text in this arena, and he is the lead author on the upcoming text The Social Psychology of Drug Abuse (with Susan L. Ames).
He was the principal investigator of Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT). Project TNT is a tobacco-use prevention and cessation project among young teens that is being disseminated nationally by the Centers for Disease Control as a "Program That Works" and by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention as a model program. It is also recognized as a model program by the Department of Education of the State of California, Sociometrics Inc., and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
His other projects including Project EX, a successful adolescent tobacco-use cessation program that was tested through use of a large, true field experimental design, and Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), which is a drug abuse prevention project for older teens. Project TND is now considered a model program by the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention, Health Canada, Sociometrics Inc., and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has published over 160 articles, chapters, or books in the arena of drug use and abuse.
Sussman received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1976 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical-social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981 and 1984.
Research Interests
Dr. Sussman's primary research interest is in drug abuse prevention and cessation. He has twelve years' experience in school-based adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention and cessation research, and has investigated the psychosocial predictors of drug use development, cessation, and relapse prevention. He is also interested in empirically based program development, and in differentiating the effects of condition credibility versus information content for eliciting successful program effects.
Degrees
University of Illinois, Chicago, PHD, 1984
University of Illinois, Chicago, MA, 1981
Residencies
Psychology Resident, Mississippi Medical Center & VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS., 1983 - 84
Fellowships
University of Mississippi & VA Medical Centers, 1983 - 1984
Professional Experience
Outside Review Board, Representative Research in Social Psychology., 1982 - 84
Instructor, Hinds Junior College, Jackson, MS., 1984 -
Consultant, Dept. of Psychology, UIC, & WMAQ-TV, Chicago., 1984 - 85
Researcher, Brentwood VA Medical Center, Behavioral Medicine Program., 1984 - 86
Research Associate, Health Behavior Research Institute, Univ. of Southern California., 1984 - 86
Asst.Prof.of Research, Inst. for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research, USC , 1986 - 88
Consultant, Minnesota Dept. of Health., 1987 -
Consultant, J of Comp in Health Care., 1989 -
Consultant, Antelope Valley Unified High School District, Redondo Beach High School District., 1990 -
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Sussman, S., Dent, C.W., Stacy, A.W. Burton, D., & Flay, B.R.Developing school-based tobacco use prevention and cessation programs.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1995.
Sussman, S., & Ames, S.L. (2001).Social Psychology of Drug Use and Abuse Stephen Sutton, Editor of series, London: Open University Press.
Sussman, S. (Editor). (2001). Handbook of program development in health behavior research and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Mestel-Rauch JS, Johnson CA, Hansen WB, Flay BR. Adolescent nonsmokers, triers, and regular smokers' estimates of cigarette smoking prevalence: When do overestimations occur and by whom? J Appl Soc Psychol 1988;18: 537-551.
Sussman S. Two social influence perspectives of tobacco use development and prevention. Health Educ Res: Theory Prac 1989;4:213-223.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Brannon BR, Glowacz KM, Gleason LR, Hansen WB, Johnson CA, Flay BR. The television, school, and family smoking prevention/cessation project: IV. Controlling for program success expectancies across experimental and control conditions. Addict Behav 1989;14:601-610.
Stacy AW, Flay BR, Sussman S, Brown KS, Santi S, Best LA. Validity of alternative self-report indices of smoking among adolescents.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Burciaga C, Raynor A, Turner GE, Charlin V, Craig S, Hansen WB, Burton D, Flay BR. Peer group association and adolescent tobacco use. J Abnorm Psychol 1990;99: 349-352.
Sussman S. Curriculum development in school-based prevention research. Health Educ Res: Theory Prac 1991;6: 339-351.
Sussman S, Burton D, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Flay BR. Use of focus groups in developing an adolescent tobacco use cessation program: Collective norm effects. J Appl Soc Psychol 1991;21:1772-1782.
Stacy AW, Sussman S, Dent CW, Burton D, Flay BR. Moderators of peer social influence in adolescent smoking. J Pers Soc Psychol Bull 1992;18:163-172.
Simon TR, Sussman S, Dent CW, Burton D, Flay BR. Correlates of exclusive or combined use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco among adolescents. Addict Behav 1993;18:623-634.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Sun P, Craig S, Simon TR, Burton D, Flay BR. Project towards no tobacco use one-year behavior outcomes. Am J Pub Health 1993;83:1245-1250.
Sussman S, Dent CW, McAdams LA, Stacy AW, Burton D, Flay BR. Group self-identification and adolescent cigarette smoking: A one-year prospective study. J Abnorm Psychol 1994;103:576-580.
Flay BR, Hu FB, Siddiqui O, Day LE, Hedeker D, Petraitis J, Richardson J, Sussman S. Differential influence of parental smoking and friends' smoking on adolescent initiation of smoking and escalation of smoking. J Health Soc Behav 1994;35:248-265.
Sussman S, Stacy AW. Five methods of assessing school-level daily use of cigarettes and alcohol by adolescents at continuation high schools. Eval Rev 1994;18:741-755.
Simon TR, Stacy AW, Sussman S, Dent CW. Sensation seeking and drug use among high risk Latino and Anglo adolescents. Per Ind Diff 1994;17:1083-1090.
Lopes C, Sussman S, Galaif E, Crippens DL. The impact of a videotape on smoking cessation among African-American women Am J Health Promot 1995;9:257-260.
Dent CW, Sussman S, Stacy AW, S. Craig, S, Burton D, Flay BR. Two-year behavior outcomes of Project Towards No Tobacco Use. J Clin Consult Psychol 1995;63:676-677.
Dent CW, Galaif ER, Sussman S, Stacy AW. Use of the "theme study" as a means of curriculum development in continuation high schools. J Drug Educ 1996:26:377-393:996.
Sussman S, Simon TR, Glynn S, Stacy AW. What does "high risk" mean?: A psycINFO scan of the literature. Behav Ther 1996;27:53-65.
Sussman S, Petosa R, Clark P. The use of empirical curriculum development to improve prevention research. Am Behav Scientist 1996;39:838-852.
Sussman S. Development of a school-based drug abuse prevention curriculum for high-risk youths. J Psychoactive Drugs 1996;28:169-182.
Simon TR, Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Burton D, Flay BR. Predictors of misreporting tobacco use initiation among adolescents. Eval Rev 1996;20:552-567.
Simon TR, Dent CW, Sussman S. Correlates of self-reports of in-school weapon carrying among high schools in southern California. Violence and Victims 1997;12:277-289.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Galaif ER. The correlates of substance abuse and dependence among adolescents at high risk for drug abuse. J Subst Abuse 1997;9:241-255.
Galaif ER, Chou C, Sussman S, Dent CW. Depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use among continuation high school students. J Youth Adol 1998;27:275-299.
Stoddard JL, Johnson CA, Sussman S, Dent C, Boley-Cruz T. Tailoring outdoor tobacco advertising to minorities in Los Angeles County. J Health Comm 1998:3:137-146.
Sussman S, Dent CW, Severson HH, Burton D, Flay BR. Self-initiated quitting among adolescent smokers. Prev Med 1998:27:A19-A28, 1998.
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