Jonathan Bricker, PhD
Research
Advising notes:
I will be taking a student for Fall 2018. My primary faculty appointment and the location of my research lab is at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center—home to three Nobel Laureates. I will be accepting an adult clinical psychology doctoral student with my longtime colleague and core faculty member Ronald Smith.
Research:
Recent innovations in e-health and telephone-delivered technologies are fueling a renaissance in behavioral interventions for health behavior change. The potential wide reach of these interventions is allowing behavioral therapies to positively impact people who might not otherwise have access to traditional forms of face-to-face therapy that have been the mainstay of clinical training. One health behavior that is the single most preventable cause of premature death and human suffering is cigarette smoking. And a functionally related behavior that is now the third leading cause of premature death is obesity. To this end, my research team is focusing on designing and developing web-delivered, smartphone app-delivered, and telephone coach-delivered contextual behavioral interventions for smoking cessation and, soon, for weight loss. Following our agile iterative user-centered design processes, we test these interventions in pilot and then full scale randomized controlled trials funded by research grants from the National Institutes of Health. Research aims include main outcome comparisons, mediators, moderators, intervention engagement, and therapeutic process predictors of outcome. Students become members of my multi-disciplinary team of research clinical psychologists, user centered design researchers, statisticians, clinicians, and administrators.
Current NIH R01 grant-funded projects:
Randomized Trial of an Innovative Smartphone Intervention for Smoking Cessation (R01 CA192849)
Randomized Trial of Web-Delivered Acceptance Therapy for Smoking Cessation (R01 CA166646)
Telephone-Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation (R01 DA038411)
Numerous pilot grants funded by foundations or philanthropic donations.
Education
- March 14, 2023 Jonathan Bricker Quoted in The Hill
- January 13, 2020 Psychology faculty Jonathan Bricker in Fred Hutch News about "Tobacco 21" law
- January 26, 2019 Fred Hutch doctors, including Jonathan Bricker, report in this MDLinx article that the US cancer death rate has declined 27% in the last 25 years.
- December 12, 2018 Jonathan Bricker’s Air Travel Stress Scale is mentioned in this Today article on how to fly budget airlines
- January 11, 2018 Jonathan Bricker was quoted in this Medical News Today article about fear of flying.
- November 2, 2017 Jonathan Bricker is quoted in this article about airplane seat choices and what they say about the passenger.
- July 17, 2017 Jonathan Bricker, from UW Psychology & Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is part of team that developed the Smart-Quit non-smoking app. You can listen to their story on this GeekWire podcast.
- January 19, 2017 Jonathan Bricker offers tips on keeping new year resolutions in this Hutch News video.
- November 23, 2016 Jonathon Bricker’s research helped create a smart phone app that has proven to be highly effective in helping smokers quit.
- August 3, 2016 Congratulations to Vasundahara Sridharan who just received the inaugural Hutch United Fellowship.
- April 10, 2015 Jonathan Bricker gives an enlightening Ted Talk on how to beat bad behavior.
- April 23, 2014 Jonathan Bricker was interviewed by KOUW’s Ross Reynolds about apps for treating addictions.
- May 9, 2013 Helen Jones is being awarded a $4,000 Mary Gates Research Scholarship for her work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
- August 13, 2012 Four Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center teams win Hartwell Innovation Fund awards
- June 26, 2010 NCI awards $3.2 million for smoking cessation efforts.
- June 4, 2009 Newsweek. Facing our Fears: Why we watch plane crash news. An interview with Dr. Jonathan Bricker:
- April 11, 2008 The UW Clinical Psychology program has received a number 1 ranking (tied with UCLA and Wisconsin) in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking of more than 200 graduate programs.
- March 2, 2005 Seattle-PI. Study says quitting smoking now could help kids kick habit later:
- Zeng, E.Y.*, Heffner, J.L., Copeland, W.K., Mull, K.E., & Bricker, J.B. (2016). Get with the program: Adherence to a smartphone app for smoking cessation. Addict Behav. 2016 Dec; 63:120-4. PMID: 27454354. (*Student collaboration)
- Bricker, J.B., Bush, T., Zbikowski, S.M., Mercer, L.D., & Heffner, J.L. (2014). Randomized trial of telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy vs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for smoking cessation: A pilot study. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 16:1446-54. PMID: 24935757.
- Bricker, J.B., Mull, K., Vilardaga, R., Kientz, J.A., Mercer, L.D., Akioka, K., & Heffner, J.L. (2014). Randomized, controlled trial of a smartphone app for smoking cessation using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 143:87-94. PMID: 25085225.
- Schimmel-Bristow, A.,* Bricker, J.B., & Comstock, B. (2012). Can Acceptance & Commitment Therapy be delivered with fidelity as a brief telephone intervention? Addictive Behaviors, 37:517-520. (*Student collaboration)
- Bricker, J.B., & Tollison, S.* (2011). Comparison of Motivational Interviewing with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: A conceptual and clinical review. Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 39: 541-549. (*Student collaboration)
- Bricker, J.B., Schiff, L.,* Comstock, B., Wyszynski, C., & Schimmel-Bristow, A. (2011). Avoidance coping as a predictor of young adult smoking behavior: A ten-year prospective study. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 13: 998-1002. (*Student collaboration)
- Otten, R.,* Bricker, J.B., Liu, J.L., & Peterson, A.V. (2011). Adolescent psychological and social predictors of young adult smoking acquisition and cessation: A ten-year longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 30: 163-170. (*Student collaboration)
- Wyszynski, C.,* Bricker, J.B., & Comstock, B. (2011). Parental smoking cessation and child daily smoking: A nine-year longitudinal study of mediation by child cognitions about smoking. Health Psychology, 30: 171-176. (*Student collaboration)