Faculty
Rob Turrisi
Ph.D., Psychology, University at Albany - State University of New York, 1988
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Contact Information
S305 Henderson Building
Phone: (814) 865-7808
Fax: (814) 865-2530
http://www.prevention.psu.edu/
Research Interests
Parent-adolescent relationships; alcohol and substance use prevention; skin cancer prevention
Parent Intervention Materials for College Bound Youth
Early Intervention to Prevent Skin Cancer
State Date: 2004
Parent-based Interventions to Prevent Student Drinking
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Start Date: 1999
Contact Dr. Turrisi for parent handbooks and related materials for these projects
Examples of Current Prevention Projects
Early Intervention to Prevent Student Binge Drinking in Student Athletes
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Start Date: 2004
Campuses Selling Alcohol: Profit or Problem?
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Start Date: 2001
Developmental/Social & Psychological Models of Binge Drinking
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
State Date: 2003
Early Intervention to Prevent Skin Cancer
State Date: 2000
University of San Diego Freshman Parent-Teen Research Initiative
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
State Date: 2004
Partner Assistance in Learning and Performing Skin Self-Examination
Start Date: 2005
Parent-based Intervention to Prevent Student Drinking
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Start Date: 1999
Appearance-focused Intervention to Prevent Skin Cancer
Start Date: 2005
Representative Publications
Jaccard, J., & Turrisi, R. (1999). Parent-based intervention to reduce adolescent drunk driving. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Special Issue: Supplement No. 13, 84-93.
Turrisi, R., & Wiersma, K. (1999). Examination of judgments of drunkenness, binge drinking, and drunk driving tendencies in teens with and without a family history of alcohol abuse. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 1-8.
Turrisi, R., Wiersma, K., & Hughes, K. (2000). Binge drinking-related consequences in college students: The role of drinking beliefs and parent-teen communications. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 14, 342-355.
Turrisi, R., Jaccard, J., Taki, R., Dunnam, H., & Grimes, J. (2001). Examination of the short-term efficacy of a parent-based intervention to reduce college student drinking tendencies. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors: Special Issue on Understanding Binge Drinking, 15, 366-372.
Turrisi, R., Hillhouse, J., Heavin, S., Robinson, J., Adams, M., & Berry, J. (2004). Examination of the short-term efficacy of a parent-based intervention to prevent skin cancer. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 27, 393-412.
Guilamo-Ramos, V., Turrisi, R., Jaccard, J., Wood, E., & Gonzalez, B. (2004). Progressing from light experimentation to heavy episodic drinking in early and middle adolescence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 65, 494-500.