Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Texas
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More ExpertsElizabeth D'Amico is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation and a licensed clinical psychologist. D'Amico is nationally recognized for her work developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for adolescents and young adults. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).
D'Amico has evaluated motivational interviewing (MI) interventions with adolescents and young adults in a variety of settings, including middle schools, primary care, homeless shelters, and teen court. She has grants focused on prevention for substance use for urban Native American adolescents and young adults that integrate MI with traditional practices, such as beading and Native American cooking. She is currently conducting a large clinical trial to address suicide prevention among Alaska Native young people in Alaska. She has conducted epidemiological work to examine predictors and consequences of adolescent and emerging adult substance use, and is the principal investigator of a longitudinal study examining substance use patterns over 18 years among youth from sixth grade through age 28. She has also addressed the effects of cannabis advertising on adolescents' cannabis use.
In 2016, D'Amico was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for Division 50 (Society of Addiction Psychology). She received the Mentor of the Year Award in 2018 from RAND's Behavioral and Policy Sciences. She has expressed her views on how to talk to adolescents about cannabis legalization on the PBS news hour for the "In My Humble Opinion" (#IMHO) series. D'Amico received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas.
D'Amico, E. J., Rodriguez, A., Tucker, J. S., Dunbar, M. S., Pedersen, E. R., & Seelam, R., "Disparities in functioning from alcohol and cannabis use among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of emerging adults," Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 243, 2022
D’Amico, E.J., Parast, L., Shadel, W.G., Meredith, L.S., Seelam, R., & Stein, B.D., "Brief motivational interviewing intervention to reduce alcohol and marijuana use for at-risk adolescents in primary care: A randomized clinical trial," Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86(9), 2018
D’Amico, E. J., Dickerson, D. L., Brown, R. A., Johnson, C., Agniel, D., & Klein, D., "Motivational Interviewing and Culture for Urban Native American Youth (MICUNAY): A randomized controlled trial," Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 111, 2020
D’Amico, E.J., Rodriguez, A., Tucker, J.S., Pedersen, E.R., & Shih, R.A., "Planting the seed for marijuana use: Changes in exposure to medical marijuana advertising and subsequent adolescent marijuana use, cognitions, and consequences over seven years," Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 188, 2018
D’Amico, E.J., Palimaru, A.I., Dickerson, D.L., Dong, L., Brown, R.A., Johnson, C.L., Klein, D.J., & Troxel, W.M., " Risk and resilience factors in urban American Indian/Alaska Native youth during the coronavirus pandemic," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2021
D’Amico, E.J., Davis, J.P., Tucker, J.S., Seelam, R., Stein, B.D. , "Opioid misuse during adolescence and its effects on risk behaviors, social functioning, health, and emerging adult roles," Addictive Behaviors, 113, 2021
Tucker, J.S., Pedersen, E. R., Seelam, R., Dunbar, M. D., Shih, R. A, & D’Amico, E. J., "Types of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine co-use and associated outcomes in young adulthood," Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 33(4), 2019
Dunbar, M., Davis, J., Rodriguez, A., Tucker, J. S., Seelam, R., & D’Amico, E. J. , "Disentangling within- and between-person effects of shared risk factors on e-cigarette and cigarette use trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood," Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 21, 2019
Interviews: CNN; KPBS/NPR; Los Angeles Times; Time Magazine; Washington Post; WPR, Wisconsin Public Radio
