Professor and Clinical Program Director
Department of Psychology
Queens Campus
Marillac Hall, Room 409F
Phone: (718) 990-1548
Fax: (718) 990-6705
nevidj@stjohns.edu
Biography
Dr. Nevid is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Doctoral
Program in Clinical Psychology at St. John's University. He was
awarded a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of
New York at Albany and was a NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mental
Health Evaluation Research at Northwestern University. Dr. Nevid
holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and has served as
Associate Editor of Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology and as Consulting Editor for the journals
Health Psychology and Psychology and Marketing.
Dr. Nevid has published more than 50 research articles in leading
scientific journals and is the author or coauthor of 11 books,
including BT/Behavior Therapy and the textbooks
Psychology: Concepts & Applications, Abnormal Psychology in
a Changing World, Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity,
Your Health and Health in the New Millennium. Dr.
Nevid teaches graduate courses in the areas of behavior therapy,
clinical research methods, and objective personality tests, as well
as supervising doctoral students in cognitive behavior
therapy.
Research Interests
Dr. Nevid has extensive research interests in the areas of clinical
psychology, health psychology, implicit cognition, and teaching of
psychology. He has published in a number of scientific journals,
including Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,
Health Psychology, American Journal of Health
Promotion, Psychology and Marketing, and Teaching
of Psychology. His research interests include
cognitive-behavioral therapy, smoking cessation, pedagogical
research and graphing techniques, virtual reality therapy, math
anxiety, investment psychology, and cross-cultural differences in
psychopathology and assessment.
Sample Publications
Nevid, J. S. (1996). Smoking cessation with ethnic minorities:
Themes and approaches. Journal of Social Distress and the
Homeless, 5, 1-16.
Nevid, J. S., & Javier, R. A. (1997) Preliminary
investigation of a culturally-specific smoking cessation
intervention for Hispanic Smokers. American Journal
of Health Promotion, 11, 198-207.
Nevid, J. S., Javier, R. A., & Moulton, J. (1996). Factors
predicting participant attrition in a community-based
culturally-specific smoking cessation program for Hispanic smokers.
Health Psychology, 15, 226-229.
Nevid, J. S., & Goodman, R. Race, ethnicity, and mental
illness. (1998). In R. A. Javier and W. G. Herron (Eds.),
Mental health, mental illness and personality development in a
diverse society: A source book. (Pp. 44-80). New York: Jason
Aronson Press.
Nevid, J. S. & Sta. Maria, N. (1999). Multicultural issues
in qualitative research. Psychology and Marketing, 16,
305-325.
Nevid, J. S., & Greene, B. (2003). Abnormal Psychology
in a Changing World. (5th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Nevid, J. S., & Carmony, T. M. (2002). Traditional versus
modular format in presenting textual material in introductory
psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 29, 237-238.
Nevid, J. S. (2003). Psychology: Concepts and
applications. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Nevid, J. S., & Lampmann, J. L. (2003). Effects on content
acquisition of signaling key concepts in text material.
Teaching of Psychology, 30, 227-229.
Nevid, J. S., & Rathus, S. A (2005). Adjustment and
growth: The challenges of life. (9th ed.). New York:
Wiley.
Rathus, S. A., Nevid, J. S., & Fichner-Rathus, L. (2005).
Human sexuality in a world of diversity. (6th ed.).
Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Nevid, J. S., & Forlenza, N. (2005). Graphing
psychology: An analysis of the most commonly used graphs in
introductory psychology textbooks. Teaching of Psychology, 32,
253-256.
Sample Publications of Student Research
Mentored by Dr. Nevid
Haggerty, J. C., & Nevid, J. S. (1998). Anxiety and cognitive
performance in adolescent women with disruptive behavior disorders.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54, 1017-1027.
Smith, L, Friedman, H., & Nevid, J. S (1999). Clinical and
sociocultural differences in African American and European American
patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 550-561.
Kirshenbaum, S., & Nevid, J. S. (2002). The specificity of
maternal disclosure of HIV/AIDS in relation to children's
adjustment". AIDS Education and Prevention, 14, 1-16.
Libov, B. G., Nevid, J. S., Pelcovitz, D., & Carmony, T M.
(2002). Posttraumatic stress symptomatology in mothers of pediatric
cancer survivors. Psychology and Health, 17, 1-11.
Schnur, J. B., Valdimarsdottir, H. B., Montgomery, G. H., Nevid,
J. S., & Bovbjerg, D. H. (2004). Social constraints and
distress among women at familial risk for breast cancer. Annals of
Behavioral Medicine, 28, 142-148.
Katz, S., & Nevid, J. S. (2005). Risk factors associated
with posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in HIV-infected
women. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 10, 44-54.