Jessica Martin
Associate Professor and Director, Division of Counseling Psychology
University at Albany
Jessica L. Martin, PhD is a New York State licensed psychologist and an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology within the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany. Dr. Martin’s research expertise is in the area of college student drinking and other health-risk behaviors. Specifically, she investigates individual, psychosocial, cultural, and contextual risk and protective factors for substance use and co-occurring disorders and health-risk behaviors (e.g., disordered eating, risky sexual behavior) and health disparities as they relate to substance use. Dr. Martin is also interested in the training of mental health providers in addiction psychology and screening and brief interventions for substance use (SBIRT). She has has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics. She has experience developing, implementing, managing, and evaluating brief interventions for alcohol use, including nearly $2 million in projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and the Foundation for Alcohol Research (ABMRF). Dr. Martin currently chairs the Education and Training Committee for the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50, American Psychological Association) and is a member of several journal editorial boards.
