Bradley H Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 6087624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley H Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley H |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3362-383X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A scoping review of 50 years of school-based mindfulness programs for children and adolescents
The use of mindfulness has gained popularity as a promising approach for improving mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. However, several gaps remain in our understanding of how these practices are defined, implemented, and contextualized in school settings. This scoping review examines 150 school-based mindfulness program (SBMP) studies published from 1973 to 2022, focusing on study characteristics (e.g., participant demographics, …
Effects of Teaching Efficacy, Advocacy, and Knowledge on Coping and Well-Being of Dual Language Immersion Teachers
In the United States, there is a nationwide shortage of bilingual teachers, but limited research on factors that contribute to their burnout and attrition. This exploratory multiple case study aimed to identify stressors unique to Spanish-English bilingual teachers and how they cope with these stressors. Interviews with two dual language immersion teachers over the course of four months revealed multiple, significant stressors including instructi…
Comparing Three Overnight Summer Camp Experiences for Marginalized Middle School Students
Background: Summer camps can promote positive youth development. Unfortunately, racial, ethnic, and economic disparities contribute to inequities in camp participation and related research on marginalized youth. Consequently, it is not clear what types of camping programs work best for marginalized youth. Purpose: To conduct a quasi-experimental comparison of three summer camps described as experiential education camp (EEC), recreational camp (RC…
Religiosity and happiness of Turkish speaking Muslims
Contextual factors influence the relationship between religiosity and happiness, with sex and country of residence identified as salient moderators. This study used questionnaire data from Turkish speaking Muslims residing in different parts of the world, including 50% in the United States, 20% in Europe, and 15% in Turkey. The study investigated the relationship between religiosity and happiness in the context of the residence country. The happi…
Adaptation of the Duke University Religion Index for Turkish speaking Muslims
The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) was developed as a brief and comprehensive religiosity scale designed to be used in large epidemiological studies. The purpose of this study was to adapt DUREL for Turkish-speaking Muslims (TDUREL). The Turkish and English versions were compared by administering them to bilingual Turkish participants (N = 46). The final reconciled version was then tested for factorial structure and convergent and criteri…
Paraprofessionals use of group school‐based instrumental mentoring
Many schools use paraprofessionals to implement and monitor interventions. Though paraprofessionals are cost‐effective, many questions remain about the training and skills they need to implement a wide array of school‐based interventions. In this study, we compare paraprofessionals' (i.e., undergraduates) implementation of the Group‐Academic Mentoring Program for Education Development (Group‐AMPED) to school psychology graduate students' implemen…
One Dog, but Which Dog? How Researchers Guide Participants to Select Dogs in Surveys of Human-Dog Relationships
Surveys and questionnaires are regularly used in studies of human–animal relationships. However, little attention has been given to understanding how survey participants are provided with instructions for the selection of a single animal within a multi-pet household, let alone the implications for reporting and interpreting data. We reviewed the instructions for the selection of an individual animal in studies addressing emotional or psychologica…
Archetyping relationships with companion animals to understand disaster risk-taking propensity
Pets factor into the daily decision-making of many people. Importantly, various characteristics of these human–animal relationships are known to strongly influence pet owners’ risk behaviour and, consequently, their animals’ welfare during disasters. Yet, few studies have examined a range of such characteristics concurrently in order to describe risk propensity differences in these relationships. In this study, 437 Australian companion-animal (pe…
A Moveable Beast
This article examines how human-animal connections influence risk perception and behaviour in companion animal guardians exposed to bushfire threat in Australia. Although the objective role of psychological bonds with companion animals is well accepted by researchers, subjective interpretations of these bonds by animal guardians are relatively underexamined in this context. We argue that the ways in which connections with pets and other animals a…
Surviving heterosexual life partners and the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987
The wide powers of judicial review granted to South African courts by the Constitution have, predictably and correctly, led to the judicial broadening of the ambit of persons who qualify as a surviving ‘spouse’ for the purposes of the Intestate Succession Act, 1987 (‘the ISA’). Surviving heterosexual life partners, however, remain excluded. In an earlier publication, I concluded that this exclusion violates the rights to equality and dignity of t…
Brief Instrumental School‐based Mentoring for First‐ and Second‐year Middle School Students
A limitation of school‐based mentoring (SBM) is the lack of structured, evidence‐based practices in mentoring sessions that explicitly target school‐relevant outcomes, such as academic performance and school behavior. To address this concern, we developed and experimentally evaluated a brief SBM program based on practices adapted from evidence‐based counseling and academic interventions with the goal of improving the academic and behavioral perfo…
The Prevalence and Implications of Human-Animal Co-Sleeping in an Australian Sample
Sleep research is characterized by an interest in humans, with the realm of animal sleep left largely to ethologists and animal scientists. However, the lives of sleep-study participants and those with sleep problems frequently involve animals. For the majority of the population in developed countries who own pets, their waking lives are impacted by the duties of animal care and ownership. For many, their sleeping lives are also impacted through …
Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is brief therapy originally designed to motivate adults to change risky or dysfunctional behavior. There is a push to use MI with middle and high school students; however, current research focuses on MI with families or teachers or to support program fidelity. In one of the few randomized studies, Strait et al. (2012) found one MI session produced statistically significant changes in middle school students’ math gra…
A Randomized Trial of Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective method of promoting change in adults, but research on adolescents is limited. This study tests the efficacy of MI for promoting academic achievement in middle school students. Participants were 103 6th‐, 7th, and 8th‐grade students randomly assigned to either a MI (n = 50) or a waitlist control condition (n = 53). Students in the MI condition participated in a single MI session during the 7 th or 8 t…
Randomized evaluation of a single semester transitional mentoring program for first year middle school students
School-based youth mentoring is popular in the United States. There are reasons to believe that school-based mentoring might be beneficial, but research has found primarily small effects and some negative effects. This study describes a formal evaluation of a single semester mentoring program that was implemented within the context of a school-university-community partnership. Middle school students were randomly assigned to a school-based mentor…
Brief Instrumental School‐based Mentoring for First‐ and Second‐year Middle School Students
A limitation of school‐based mentoring (SBM) is the lack of structured, evidence‐based practices in mentoring sessions that explicitly target school‐relevant outcomes, such as academic performance and school behavior. To address this concern, we developed and experimentally evaluated a brief SBM program based on practices adapted from evidence‐based counseling and academic interventions with the goal of improving the academic and behavioral perfo…
Randomized evaluation of a single semester transitional mentoring program for first year middle school students
School-based youth mentoring is popular in the United States. There are reasons to believe that school-based mentoring might be beneficial, but research has found primarily small effects and some negative effects. This study describes a formal evaluation of a single semester mentoring program that was implemented within the context of a school-university-community partnership. Middle school students were randomly assigned to a school-based mentor…
The Prevalence and Implications of Human-Animal Co-Sleeping in an Australian Sample
Sleep research is characterized by an interest in humans, with the realm of animal sleep left largely to ethologists and animal scientists. However, the lives of sleep-study participants and those with sleep problems frequently involve animals. For the majority of the population in developed countries who own pets, their waking lives are impacted by the duties of animal care and ownership. For many, their sleeping lives are also impacted through …
A Randomized Trial of Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective method of promoting change in adults, but research on adolescents is limited. This study tests the efficacy of MI for promoting academic achievement in middle school students. Participants were 103 6th‐, 7th, and 8th‐grade students randomly assigned to either a MI (n = 50) or a waitlist control condition (n = 53). Students in the MI condition participated in a single MI session during the 7 th or 8 t…
Archetyping relationships with companion animals to understand disaster risk-taking propensity
Pets factor into the daily decision-making of many people. Importantly, various characteristics of these human–animal relationships are known to strongly influence pet owners’ risk behaviour and, consequently, their animals’ welfare during disasters. Yet, few studies have examined a range of such characteristics concurrently in order to describe risk propensity differences in these relationships. In this study, 437 Australian companion-animal (pe…
A Moveable Beast
This article examines how human-animal connections influence risk perception and behaviour in companion animal guardians exposed to bushfire threat in Australia. Although the objective role of psychological bonds with companion animals is well accepted by researchers, subjective interpretations of these bonds by animal guardians are relatively underexamined in this context. We argue that the ways in which connections with pets and other animals a…
Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is brief therapy originally designed to motivate adults to change risky or dysfunctional behavior. There is a push to use MI with middle and high school students; however, current research focuses on MI with families or teachers or to support program fidelity. In one of the few randomized studies, Strait et al. (2012) found one MI session produced statistically significant changes in middle school students’ math gra…
Randomized evaluation of a single semester transitional mentoring program for first year middle school students
School-based youth mentoring is popular in the United States. There are reasons to believe that school-based mentoring might be beneficial, but research has found primarily small effects and some negative effects. This study describes a formal evaluation of a single semester mentoring program that was implemented within the context of a school-university-community partnership. Middle school students were randomly assigned to a school-based mentor…
A Randomized Trial of Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective method of promoting change in adults, but research on adolescents is limited. This study tests the efficacy of MI for promoting academic achievement in middle school students. Participants were 103 6th‐, 7th, and 8th‐grade students randomly assigned to either a MI (n = 50) or a waitlist control condition (n = 53). Students in the MI condition participated in a single MI session during the 7 th or 8 t…
Motivational Interviewing to Improve Middle School Students’ Academic Performance
Motivational interviewing (MI) is brief therapy originally designed to motivate adults to change risky or dysfunctional behavior. There is a push to use MI with middle and high school students; however, current research focuses on MI with families or teachers or to support program fidelity. In one of the few randomized studies, Strait et al. (2012) found one MI session produced statistically significant changes in middle school students’ math gra…
The Prevalence and Implications of Human-Animal Co-Sleeping in an Australian Sample
Sleep research is characterized by an interest in humans, with the realm of animal sleep left largely to ethologists and animal scientists. However, the lives of sleep-study participants and those with sleep problems frequently involve animals. For the majority of the population in developed countries who own pets, their waking lives are impacted by the duties of animal care and ownership. For many, their sleeping lives are also impacted through …
Brief Instrumental School‐based Mentoring for First‐ and Second‐year Middle School Students
A limitation of school‐based mentoring (SBM) is the lack of structured, evidence‐based practices in mentoring sessions that explicitly target school‐relevant outcomes, such as academic performance and school behavior. To address this concern, we developed and experimentally evaluated a brief SBM program based on practices adapted from evidence‐based counseling and academic interventions with the goal of improving the academic and behavioral perfo…
A Moveable Beast
This article examines how human-animal connections influence risk perception and behaviour in companion animal guardians exposed to bushfire threat in Australia. Although the objective role of psychological bonds with companion animals is well accepted by researchers, subjective interpretations of these bonds by animal guardians are relatively underexamined in this context. We argue that the ways in which connections with pets and other animals a…
Surviving heterosexual life partners and the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987
The wide powers of judicial review granted to South African courts by the Constitution have, predictably and correctly, led to the judicial broadening of the ambit of persons who qualify as a surviving ‘spouse’ for the purposes of the Intestate Succession Act, 1987 (‘the ISA’). Surviving heterosexual life partners, however, remain excluded. In an earlier publication, I concluded that this exclusion violates the rights to equality and dignity of t…
Archetyping relationships with companion animals to understand disaster risk-taking propensity
Pets factor into the daily decision-making of many people. Importantly, various characteristics of these human–animal relationships are known to strongly influence pet owners’ risk behaviour and, consequently, their animals’ welfare during disasters. Yet, few studies have examined a range of such characteristics concurrently in order to describe risk propensity differences in these relationships. In this study, 437 Australian companion-animal (pe…
One Dog, but Which Dog? How Researchers Guide Participants to Select Dogs in Surveys of Human-Dog Relationships
Surveys and questionnaires are regularly used in studies of human–animal relationships. However, little attention has been given to understanding how survey participants are provided with instructions for the selection of a single animal within a multi-pet household, let alone the implications for reporting and interpreting data. We reviewed the instructions for the selection of an individual animal in studies addressing emotional or psychologica…
Paraprofessionals use of group school‐based instrumental mentoring
Many schools use paraprofessionals to implement and monitor interventions. Though paraprofessionals are cost‐effective, many questions remain about the training and skills they need to implement a wide array of school‐based interventions. In this study, we compare paraprofessionals' (i.e., undergraduates) implementation of the Group‐Academic Mentoring Program for Education Development (Group‐AMPED) to school psychology graduate students' implemen…
Religiosity and happiness of Turkish speaking Muslims
Contextual factors influence the relationship between religiosity and happiness, with sex and country of residence identified as salient moderators. This study used questionnaire data from Turkish speaking Muslims residing in different parts of the world, including 50% in the United States, 20% in Europe, and 15% in Turkey. The study investigated the relationship between religiosity and happiness in the context of the residence country. The happi…
Adaptation of the Duke University Religion Index for Turkish speaking Muslims
The Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) was developed as a brief and comprehensive religiosity scale designed to be used in large epidemiological studies. The purpose of this study was to adapt DUREL for Turkish-speaking Muslims (TDUREL). The Turkish and English versions were compared by administering them to bilingual Turkish participants (N = 46). The final reconciled version was then tested for factorial structure and convergent and criteri…
Comparing Three Overnight Summer Camp Experiences for Marginalized Middle School Students
Background: Summer camps can promote positive youth development. Unfortunately, racial, ethnic, and economic disparities contribute to inequities in camp participation and related research on marginalized youth. Consequently, it is not clear what types of camping programs work best for marginalized youth. Purpose: To conduct a quasi-experimental comparison of three summer camps described as experiential education camp (EEC), recreational camp (RC…
Effects of Teaching Efficacy, Advocacy, and Knowledge on Coping and Well-Being of Dual Language Immersion Teachers
In the United States, there is a nationwide shortage of bilingual teachers, but limited research on factors that contribute to their burnout and attrition. This exploratory multiple case study aimed to identify stressors unique to Spanish-English bilingual teachers and how they cope with these stressors. Interviews with two dual language immersion teachers over the course of four months revealed multiple, significant stressors including instructi…
A scoping review of 50 years of school-based mindfulness programs for children and adolescents
The use of mindfulness has gained popularity as a promising approach for improving mental health outcomes in children and adolescents. However, several gaps remain in our understanding of how these practices are defined, implemented, and contextualized in school settings. This scoping review examines 150 school-based mindfulness program (SBMP) studies published from 1973 to 2022, focusing on study characteristics (e.g., participant demographics, …
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Medical education (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)