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Publications and Presentations on Health, Religion and Spirituality by Staff and Affiliated Scholars:

     Kristeller, J. (in press). Finding the Buddha/Finding the Self: Seeing with the Third Eye. In Seth Segal (Ed.) Encountering Buddhism. SUNY Press. Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology.

     Kristeller, J. (forthcoming) Meditation and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. Under contract with Guilford Press. Sole authored book.

     Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2006, July).  Identifying mediators of the relationship between religiousness and alcohol use: Beliefs, meaning, and perceptions of peer drinking.  Paper presented at the International Network on Personal Meaning Conference:  Meaning and Addiction, Vancouver, British Columbia. 

     Johnson, T. J., Aten, J., Madsen, M., & Bennett, P. (2006, July).  Alcohol use and meaning in life among survivors of hurricane Katrina.  Paper presented at the International Network on Personal Meaning Conference:  Meaning and Addiction, Vancouver, British Columbia. 

     Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2006, February).  Measuring Students' experience of college as threatening or supporting their religious beliefs:  Relationships to meaning, purpose, and other correlates.  Paper presented at the Institute on College Student Values, Tallahassee, Florida.

     Kristeller, J., & Johnson, T. J. (2005). Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality, Zygon:  Journal of Religion and Science, 40, 391-407. 

     Leigh, J, Johnson, T. J., Bowen, S., & Marlatt, G. A. (2005, November).  Spirituality, mindfulness and substance abuse - Study II.  Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

     Kristeller, J., Sheets, V., Johnson, T, Frank, E. (2005, April). Understanding and addressing the spiritual concerns of cancer patients. Paper presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meetings. Boston, MA.

     Johnson, T. J. (2005, March).  Explaining the connection between religiousness/spirituality and alcohol problems.  Paper presented at the conference:  Addiction and Spirituality:  Scientific, Theological, & Clinical Perspectives.  Terre Haute, Indiana.

     Halberda, R., Johnson, T. J., & Kaskutas, L. A. (2005, March). Helping behavior, well-being, and alcohol use in college students Paper presented at the conference:  Addiction and Spirituality:  Scientific, Theological, & Clinical Perspectives.  Terre Haute, Indiana.

     Maddux, J., Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2005, March).  Religiousness and alcohol use in college students:  Patterning of relationships by race.  Paper presented at the conference:  Addiction and Spirituality:  Scientific, Theological, & Clinical Perspectives.  Terre Haute, Indiana.

  Johnson, T. J., Kristeller, J., Sheets, V. L (2004). Religiousness and Spirituality in College Students: Separate Dimensions with Unique and Common Correlates. Proceedings of the Institute on College Student Values: Soul Searching: Trends and Patterns in College Student Spirituality. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Available here.

     Forbes, S. A., Johnson, T. J., & Maddux, J. (2004, June).  Alcohol advertisements activate alcohol outcome expectancies.  Poster presented at the meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 2004, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

     Kristeller, J., & Johnson, T. J. (2004, March).  The care provider’s role in addressing spiritual and religious concerns:  conceptual issues and empirical evidence.  Paper presented at 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore Maryland.

     Johnson, T. J., Kristeller, J., Sheets, V. L (2004, February). Religiousness and Spirituality in College Students:  Separate Dimensions with Unique and Common Correlates.  Paper presented at the conference “Soul Searching:  Trends and Patterns in College Student Spirituality” at the Institute on College Student Values; Florida State  University; Tallahassee, Florida.

     Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2003). Do motives matter?: their relationship to college student drinking, religiousness, and spirituality. (Abstract). Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 115A.

    Johnson, T. J., Freimuth, T., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2003).Motives for drinking mediate relationships between life goals and alcohol use. (Abstract). Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 27, 104A.

    Johnson, T. J., Kristeller, J., Sheets, V. L., & Shiber, N (2003, June). Fruits of the Spirit: Correlates of Altruism in College Students. Paper presented at the Conference Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Altruism, Philadelphia, PA.

    Kristeller, J., & Johnson, T. J (2003, June). Cultivating Loving-Kindness: A Two-Stage Model for the Effects of Meditation on Compassion, Altruism and Spirituality. Paper presented at the Conference Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Altruism, Philadelphia, PA.

    Kristeller, J., Johnson, T., & Sheets, V. (2003, March). Structural Validity of Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Relation to Alcohol Use. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

    Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2002, August). Motives, Meaning, and Addiction: Personal Goals in Alcoholism and Spirituality. Paper presentation at the 2002 meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

    Kristeller, J., & Rhodes, M. (2002, March). The OASIS Project: Oncologist-Assisted Spirituality Intervention Study. Presented at Spirituality & Healing in Medicine, Salt Lake City.

    Kristeller, J. (June 4, 2001). Meditation: Multiple Effects, A Single Process? Paper presented at the CTNS Advanced Workshop: "Neuroscience, Religious Experience and the Self." Montreal.

    Johnson, T. J., Sheets, V. L., & Kristeller, J. (2001, May). Motives for drinking mediate relationships between religiousness and alcohol use. Poster presented at the 2001 meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

    Varney, S.M. & Johnson, T. (1999). Scale of cognitive adaptation to alcoholism: Development and preliminary validation (Abstract). Supplement to Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 122A.

    Kristeller, J.L., Hallett, B. (1999). Effects of a Meditation-Based Intervention in the Treatment of Binge Eating. Journal of Health Psychology. 4(3), 357-363.

    Kristeller, JL, Zumbrun, C.S., Schilling, R. (1999). "I would if I could": How oncologists and oncology nurses address spiritual distress in cancer patients. Psycho-Oncology. Special issue on spirituality. 8, 451-458.

    Marlatt, G.A., & Kristeller, J.L. (1999). Mindfulness and meditation. In W. R. Miller (Ed.). Integrating Spirituality in Treatment. (pp. 67-84). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

    Varney, S. M., & Johnson, T. J. (1999, July). Scale of cognitive adaptation to alcoholism: Development and preliminary validation. Poster presented at the meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism.

    Johnson, T. J. (1993, August). AA, RR, and dichotomous thinking in self-help groups. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion, A, Kristeller, J. et al. (1992). Effectiveness of a meditation-based stress reduction intervention in the treatment of anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 149(7), 936-943.

    Cuthbert, B, Kristeller, JL, Simons, R & Lang, PJ (1981). Strategies of arousal control: Biofeedback, meditation, and motivation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 110, 518-546.

    Kristeller, JL (1980). Heart rate slowing: Biofeedback vs. meditation. In DJ Osborne, MM Gruneberg, & JR Eiser (Eds.) Research in Psychology and Medicine. Vol. 1 (pp. 183-190). London: Academic Press.

    Kristeller, JL. (1977). Meditation and biofeedback in the regulation of internal states. In Swami Ajaya. Meditational Therapy. Himalayan Institute. Glenview, IL.