DePaul Psychology Faculty

Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D.
DePaul University
Center for Community Research

990 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-3504
Telephone: (773) 325-2018
Fax: (773) 325-4923
Email: ljason@depaul.edu

Table of Contents

Major Areas of Interest
Education
Academic Appointments
Representative Grants
Professional Activities and Awards
Professional Associations
Representative Publications
Professional Links
DePaul Links
Courses

Major Areas of Interest

Education

B.A., Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1971.

Major: Psychology

Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1975

Major: Clinical/Community Psychology

Academic Appointments

Instructor, Psychology Department, University of Rochester, 1973 - 1975.

Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, DePaul University, Chicago, 1975 - 1980.

Associate Professor, Psychology Department, DePaul University, Chicago, 1980 - 1983.

Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, 1983 - 1987.

Professor, Psychology Department, DePaul University, Chicago, 1984-present.

Director, Center for Community Research, DePaul University, 2001-present.

Representative Grants

National Institute of Mental Health. Evaluating a preventive orientation program, 1980-1981.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Smoking cessation involving the media and social support, 1985-1986.

National Institute of Mental Health. A preventive intervention for high risk transfer children, 1986-1993.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. A worksite smoking cessation program, 1987-1989.

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Worksite incentives for becoming a nonsmoker, 1990-1995.

Thrasher Foundation. Reducing the sale of cigarettes to minors, 1993-1995.

The Chicago Community Trust. The Oxford House model for empowerment, 1993-1994.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Estimating rates of CFS in a community sample, 1995-2001.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The effects of enforcement and possession laws on youth prevalence, 1998-2001.

U.S. Department of Education, A field-initiated research project to determine the effectiveness of a capacity-building program for individuals with CFS, Co-Investigator, 2000-2003.

National Institute on Drug Abuse, Abstinent social support in Oxford House, 2000-2006.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, An evaluation of the Oxford House model, 2000-2006.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Activity intervention for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2000-2007.

National Cancer Institute, The effects of laws on youth prevalence, 2001-2008.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Risk factors associated with CFS and CF prognosis, 2005-2011.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Evaluating a bilingual voluntary community-based healthcare organization. 2008-2013.

National Institute on Drug Abuse, Evaluating alternative aftercare models for ex-offenders, 2007-2014.

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Community participatory intervention with high-risk African-American women, 2008-2014.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Social Ecology and the Prevention of Suicide and Aggression in African American Youth. 2013-2020.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Pediatric CFS in a Community-based Sample. 2013-2020.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A prospective study of CFS following infectious mononucleosis in college students. 2013-2019.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Emergent social environments as predictors of recovery resident outcomes. 2015-2020.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Minority Supplement for Mayra Guerrero, Emergent social environments as predictors of recovery resident outcomes. 2016-2019.

Vincentian Endowment Fund. Open Access/Community Psychology Textbook Project. 2018-2020.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Preventing Suicide in African American Adolescents. 2019-2024.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Maintenance and Incidence of ME/CFS Following Mono, 2019-2024.

Professional Activities and Awards

Current Editorial Board Member

Journal of Community Psychology, 1983-1986, 2007-present.

Prevention in Human Services, 1986-1995. Renamed Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 1996-present.

Journal of Health Psychology, 2008-present.

Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 2013-present.

Past Editorial Board Member

Professional Psychology, 1978-1991.

American Journal of Community Psychology, 1978-1991. Associate Editor, 1983-1987.

Behaviorists for Social Action, 1983-1991. Renamed Behavior and Social Issues, 1992-1994.

The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1983-1986. Appointed Associate Editor, 1986-2007.

Special Services in the Schools, 1984-2008.

Editor, The Community Psychologist, 1985-1988.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1986-1991.

Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 1997-2008.

The CIFDS Research Letter, 1999-2010.

Bulletin of the IACFS/ME, 2007-2010.

Other Committees and Organizations

National Coordinator, Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association, 1980-1983.

President, Behavior Analysis Society of Illinois, 1985-87.

Member of the Child and Family and Prevention Subcommittee, Life Course and Prevention Research Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health, 1987-1991.

Member of the Board of Trustees, Illinois Self-Help Clearinghouse, 1987-1991 (Vice Chairperson, 1988, Chairperson, 1989-90).

President, Division of Community Psychology of the American Psychological Association, 1989-90.

Mentorship Award from the Society for Community Research and Action of the American Psychological Association, 1991.

United States Patent (Number 5,142,358), "Earn per view television viewing regulation device," Aug. 25, 1992.

Society for Community Research and Action's 1997 Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research Award.

DePaul University's Cortelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence, 1998.

The American Psychological Association's Karl F. Heiser Award for Advocacy, 1998.

Member of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordinating Committee, 2000-2003.

Member of the Board of Directors, International Association for CFS/ME, 2001-2009, 2012. Vice President, 2004-2009.

Member of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee, 2006-2012.

Dutch ME-Foundation International ME-Award for outstanding work in the past ten years in the field of CFS, 2003.

Perpich award for distinguished service to the IACFS/ME and the CFS/ME community, 2011.

Tom Fellows award for outstanding contributions to the Oxford House organization, 2011.

DePaul University College of Science and Health award for Excellence in Research, 2013.

American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research, 2015.

Professional Associations

American Psychological Association

Division 25, Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Division 27, Community

Association for Psychological Science
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Association for Behavior Analysis
Midwestern Psychological Association
International Association for CFS/ME
American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology

Representative Publications (Over 850 publications)

All publications are at this site: https://www.leonardjason.com/vita/

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Wikipedia

Gesten, E. L., & Jason, L. A. (1987). Social and community interventions. In M. R. Rosenzweig & L. W. Porter (Eds.) Annual Review of Psychology. (pp. 427-460). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc.

Jason, L. A., McMahon, S. D., Salina, D., Hedeker, D., Stockton, M., Dunson, K., Kimball, P. (1995). Assessing a smoking cessation intervention involving groups, incentives, and self-help manuals. Behavior Therapy, 26, 393-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7894(05)80090-5

Jason, L. A., Billows, W., Schnopp-Wyatt, D., & King, C. (1996). Reducing the illegal sales of cigarettes to minors: Analysis of alternative enforcement schedules. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 29, 333-344. PMCID: PMC1283996 https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1996.29-333

Jason, L.A., Richman, J.A., Friedberg, F., Wagner, L., Taylor, R.R., & Jordan, K.M. (1997). Politics, science, and the emergence of a new disease: The case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. American Psychologist, 52, 973-983. PMID: 9301342 https://doi.org/10.1037//0003-066x.52.9.973

L. A., & Barnes, H. E. (1997). Substance abuse prevention: Beyond the schoolyard. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-1849(97)80010-8

Jason, L. A. (1998). Tobacco, drug, and HIV preventive media interventions. American Journal of Community Psychology, 26, 145-187. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022172301449

Jason, L.A., Taylor, R.R., & Kennedy, B.A. (2000). Chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities in a community-based sample of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome-like symptoms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 655-663. PMID: 11020095 https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-200009000-00009

Jason, L. A., Pokorny, S. B. & Schoeny, M. E. (2003). It is premature to abandon youth access to tobacco programs. Pediatrics, 111(4 Pt 1), 920-921. PMID: 12671138 https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.111.4.920

Jason, L.A., Holbert, C., Torres-Harding, S., & Taylor, R.R. (2004). Stigma and chronic fatigue syndrome: Surveying a name change. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 14, 222-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073040140040401

Jason, L. A., Olson, B. D., Ferrari, J. R., & Lo Sasso, A. T. (2006). Communal housing settings enhance substance abuse recovery. American Journal of Public Health, 91, 1727-1729. PMCID: PMC1586125 https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.070839

Jason, L. A., Olson, B. D., Ferrari, J. R., Majer, J. M., Alvarez, J., & Stout, J. (2007). An examination of main and interactive effects of substance abuse recovery. Addiction, 102, 1114-1121. PMCID: PMC2976482 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01846.x

Jason, L.A., Unger, E.R., Dimitrakoff, J.D., Fagin, A.P., Houghton, M., Cook, D., Marshall Jr., G.D., Klimas, N., & Snell, C. (2012). Minimum data elements for research reports on CFS. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 26, 401-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2012.01.014

Jason, L.A. (2012). Small wins matter in advocacy movements: Giving voice to patients. American Journal of Community Psychology, 49, 307-316.

Jason, L.A., Brown, M., Brown, A., Evans, M., Flores, S., Grant-Holler, E., & Sunnquist, M. (2013). Energy Conservation/Envelope Theory interventions to help patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Biomedicine, Health, & Behavior, 1, 27-42. PMCID: PMC4013246 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-013-9610-6

Jason, L.A. (2015). Ethical and diversity challenges in ecologically sensitive systems-oriented interventions. American Psychologist, 70, 762-775.

Jason, L. A., Beasley, C. R., & Hunter, B.A. (2015). Advocacy and social justice. In V. Chien & S.M. Wolfe (Ed.). Foundations of Community Psychology Practice. (pp. 262-289) New York: Sage.

Jason, L.A., Stevens, E., Ram, D. Miller, S.A., Beasley, C.R., & Gleason, K., (2016). Theories in the field of community psychology. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 7(2), 1-27.

Jason, L.A., Stevens, E., & Light, J.M. (2016). The relationship of sense of community and trust to hope. Journal of Community Psychology, 44, 334–341. PMCID:PMC4828033 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21771

Jason, L.A., & Stevens, E. (2017). The reliability and reciprocity of a social network measure. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 35, 317–327. PMCID: PMC6145821 https://doi.org/10.1080/07347324.2017.1355220

Jason, L.A. (2017). To serve or not to serve: Ethical and policy implications. American Journal of Community Psychology, 60,(3-4), 406-413. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12181

Jason, L.A., & Sunnquist, M. (2018). The development of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire: Original, expanded, brief and pediatric versions. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 6:330. PMCID: PMC6232226 https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2018.00330

Devendorf, A.R., Jackson, C.T., Sunnquist, M., & Jason, L.A. (2019). Defining and measuring recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome: The physician perspective. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41, 158-165. PMCID: PMC6123286 https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1383518

Jason, L.A., Katz, B.Z., Sunnquist, M., Torres, C., Cotler, J., & Bhatia, S. (2020). The prevalence of pediatric myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in a community-based sample. Child & Youth Care Forum, 49, 563-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-019-09543-3

Jason, L.A., Guerrero, M., Lynch, G., Stevens, E., Salomon-Amend, M., & Light, J.N. (2020). Recovery home networks as social capital. Journal of Community Psychology, 48, 645–657. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22277

Jason, L.A., Cotler, J., Islam, M., Sunnquist, M., & Katz, B.Z. (2021). Risks for developing ME/CFS in college students following Infectious Mononucleosis: A prospective cohort study. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73(11), e3740–e3746, PMCID:PMC8664491 https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1886

Jason, L.A., Guerrero, M., Bobak, T., Light, J.M., & Stoolmiller, M. (2022). Reducing health disparities among Black individuals in the post-treatment environment. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 21(4), 1452-1467. PMCID: PMC8649697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2020.1861497

Jason, L.A., Ravichandran, S., Katz, B.Z., Natelson, B.H., & Bonilla, H.F. (2023). Establishing a consensus on ME/CFS exclusionary illnesses. Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, 11(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2022.2150487

Books:

Glenwick, D. S., & Jason, L. A. (Eds.). (1980). Behavioral community psychology: Progress and prospects. New York, NY: Praeger.

Felner, R. D., Jason, L. A., Moritsugu, J., & Farber, S. S. (Eds.). (1983). Preventive psychology: Theory, research and practice. New York, NY: Pergamon.

Jason, L. A., Hess, R., Felner, R. D., & Moritsugu, J. N. (Eds.). (1987). Prevention: Toward a multidisciplinary approach. New York, NY: Haworth Press.

Rhodes, J. E., & Jason, L. A. (1988). Preventing substance abuse among children and adolescents . New York, N.Y: Pergamon.

Tolan, P., Keys, C., Chertok, F., & Jason, L. (Eds.). (1990). Researching community psychology: Issues of theories and methods. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Jason, L. A., Weine, A. M., Johnson, J. H., Warren-Sohlberg, L., Filippelli, L. A., Turner, E. Y., & Lardon, C. (1992). Helping transfer students: Strategies for educational and social readjustment. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Glenwick, D. S., & Jason, L. A. (Eds.). (1993). Promoting health and mental health with children, youth, and families. New York, NY: Springer.

Jason, L. A., Danner, K. E., & Kurasaki, K. (Eds.). (1993). Prevention and school transitions. New York, NY: Haworth.

Jason, L.A., & Hanaway, E.K. (1997). Remote control: A sensible approach to kids, TV, and the new electronic media. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Press.

Jason, L.A. (1997). Community building. Values for a sustainable future. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Friedberg, F., & Jason, L.A. (1998). Understanding chronic fatigue syndrome: An empirical guide to assessment and treatment. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.