Jerald Herting

Ph.D. 1987, University of Washington.

Department: Sociology and School of Nursing
Position: Research Associate Professor
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Phone: (206) 616-3768 or 616-6478
Box: 358732
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Research Summary:

Dr. Herting has over 12 years of experience conducting research and evaluation in the areas of adolescent drug and alcohol use, mental health, delinquency, and educational achievement. His work includes survey design, instrument development, and alternative statistical models for evaluating program effectiveness. Dr. Herting's recent work has focused on the evaluation of school-based interventions to prevent dropout, suicide risk, substance use/abuse; and of methods to identify high-risk populations for indicated intervention programs.
Related health and demography interests include teenage fertility, contraceptive use, and the role health services play in the adoption of family planning and other health behaviors. Dr. Herting specializes in issues relevant to adolescence (health, alcohol/drug use, mental health, education), social demography (fertility, contraceptive use, adolescent fertility), advanced quantitative methods (structural equation models, loglinear models, demographic methods, measurement, survey research), and evaluation research.

Wang, W.-L.; Herting, J. R.; Tung, Y.-Y., (2008), Adolescents’ Avoidance of Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Model Testing, Western Journal of Nursing Research, 30: 1.

Chartier, M.; Herting, J. R.; Vander Stoep, A.; McCauley, E., (2007), Passive Versus Active Parental Consent: Implications for Participation in School-Based Depression Screening, Journal of School Health, 78: 3, 157-167.

Tsarouk, T.; Thompson, E. A.; Herting, J. R.; Walsh, E.; Randell, B., (2007), Culturally specific adaptation of a prevention intervention: An international collaborative research project, Addictive Behaviors, 32: 8, 1565.

Tyson, S.; Herting, J. R.; Randall, B., (2007), The Role of Abuse and Other Factors on Cognitive Reappraisal among Women Leaving an Abusive Relationship, Journal of Social and Personal Relations, 24: 5, 693-706.

Hargens, L. L.; Herting, J. R., (2006), Analyzing the association between referees' recommendations and editors' decisions, Scientometrics, 67: 1, 15-26.

Randell, B.; Herting, J.; Wang, W.-L.; Eggert, L. L., (2006), Family Factors Predicting Categories of Suicide Risk, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 15: 3, 247.

Stoep, A. V.; McCauley, E.; Thompson, K. A.; Herting, J. R.; Kuo, E. S.; Stewart, D. G.; Anderson, C. A.; Kushner, S., (2005), Universal Emotional Health Screening at the Middle School Transition, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 13: 4, 213.

Thompson, E. A.; Mazza, J. J.; Herting, J. R.; Randell, B. P.; Eggert, L. L., (2005), The Mediating Roles of Anxiety Depression, and Hopelessness on Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 35: 1, 14.

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