Jessica Cronce
Biography
Dr. Cronce will be accepting new PhD students in Counseling Psychology but will not be accepting new PhD students in Prevention Science for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Dr. Cronce is an Associate Professor with appointments in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services and the Prevention Science Institute. Dr. Cronce is currently the Director of the Counseling Psychology (CPSY) doctoral program as well as the Director of the Counseling Psychology Center (CPC) within the HEDCO Clinic. Dr. Cronce's research and clinical interests focus on the prevention of harms related to alcohol use, drug use, and other health-risk behaviors among college students and other young adults.
Dr. Cronce has co-authored numerous publications on the topic of individual-focused alcohol prevention, including three large-scale reviews in 2002, 2007 and 2011, the first of which helped form the basis of recommendations made by the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking. Her latest collaboration with NIAAA resulted in the College Alcohol Intervention Matrix (College AIM), a resource for all stakeholders interested in prevention of college student drinking-related harms. Her research experience is complimented by her training in clinical psychology in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which she has applied to the treatment of substance use disorders, eating disorders, gambling disorder, and other disorders marked by emotion dysregulation. Dr. Cronce is licensed as a psychologist in Oregon.
Education
Honors and Awards
2019-2020 Member of the UO Leadership Academy, University of Oregon
2019 Excellence in Teaching, Early Career Award, College of Education, University of Oregon
Publications
Ehlinger, P. P., & Cronce, J. M. (2024). Personalized feedback intervention modules addressing marginalization stress, drinking to cope, and resilience among transgender and gender-diverse college students. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
Hone, L. S. E., Boness, C. L., Helle, A. C., Kilmer, J. R., Morgan-Daniel, J., Chance, S. M., Rohleen, T. K., & Cronce, J. M. (2024). A scoping review of interventions for college students’ harmful cannabis use and a call for a College Cannabis Intervention Matrix. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
Cronce, J. M., Marchetti, M. A., Jones, M. B., & Ehlinger, P. P. (2022). A scoping review of brief alcohol interventions across young adult subpopulations. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36(6), 648–663. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000800
Ehlinger, P. P., Folger, A., & Cronce, J. M. (2022). A qualitative analysis of transgender and gender non-conforming college students’ experiences of gender-based discrimination and intersections with alcohol use. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36(2), 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000752
Lee, C. M., Cadigan, J. M., Kilmer, J. R., Cronce, J. M., Suffoletto, B., Walter, T., Fleming, C., & Lewis, M. A. (2021). Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for Community College Students (BASICCS): Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of web-conferencing BASICCS and supporting automated text messages. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35(7), 840–851. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000745
Cronce, J. M., Zimmerman, L., Rhew, I. C., Cadigan, J. M., Atkins, D. C., & Lee, C. M. (2020). Does it work and does it last? Effects of social and drinking behavior on same and next day mood. Addictive Behaviors, 100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106111
Cronce, J. M., Toomey, T. L., Lenk, K., Nelson, T. F., Kilmer, J. R., & Larimer, M. E. (2017). NIAAA’s College Alcohol Intervention Matrix: CollegeAIM. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, 39(1), e1-e5. https://www.arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/arcr391/article06.pdf
Cronce, J. M., & Larimer, M. E. (2011). Individual-focused approaches to prevention of college student drinking. Alcohol Research & Health, 34, 210-221. https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh342/210-221.pdf
Larimer, M. E. & Cronce, J. M. (2007). Identification, prevention, and treatment revisited: Individual-focused college drinking prevention strategies 1999-2006. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 2439-2468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.05.006
Larimer, M. E., & Cronce, J. M. (2002). Identification, prevention, and treatment: A review of individual-focused strategies to reduce problematic alcohol consumption by college students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63(Suppl. 14), 148-163. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsas.2002.s14.148
Research
Currently Funded Research
R01 AA029125 (Co-Investigator), 04/01/2022 - 02/28/2027
Mechanisms of Risky Alcohol Use in Young Adults: Linking Sleep Duration and Timing to Reward- and Stress-Related Brain Function.
This research will use biobehavioral approaches to generate understanding about the linkages between stressful life events, sleep duration and timing, and alcohol use in young adults, with a long-term aim of developing effective preventative interventions for alcohol use disorders.
Recently Completed Research / Data Sets Students May Use for Secondary Data Analysis
CPHS Faculty Research Award (Principal Investigator)
Examining Substance Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidality among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sexual and Gender Minorities: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Health Disparities
The objective of this study was to elucidate specific risk and protective factors among sexual and gender minority subgroups to develop and evaluate interventions to reduce health disparities among racially and ethnically diverse members of these populations.
R37 AA012547 (Co-Investigator)
Social Norms & Skills Training: Motivating Campus Change
The objectives of this study were to evaluate a multi-component online personalized feedback intervention (PFI) with simultaneous delivery (i.e., all components at once) versus sequential delivery (i.e., individual components are delivered one at a time to minimize attention demands for each component) and to enhance the magnitude and duration of PFI effects through text-message-based boosters addressing specific high-risk drinking events.