Dr Meredith A Terlecki
Senior Lecturer
Drugs and Addictive Behaviours Research Group
Meredith’s research interests include identification and prevention of alcohol and substance use disorders among young people including those especially vulnerable to use (e.g., comorbid social anxiety disorder).
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AE 3.13, Stratford Campus
School of Psychology
The University of East London
Stratford Campus
London
E15 4LZ - m.terlecki@uel.ac.uk +442082234463
Dr Meredith Terlecki completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Louisiana State University (USA) and pre-doctoral clinical internship at the Baltimore Veterans' Affairs Hospital/University of Maryland Consortium. She has since worked as a Lecturer and now Senior Lecturer at UEL. She is a member of UEL's Drug and Addictive Behaviours Research Group. Dr Terlecki is Programme Leader of UEL's MSc in Clinical and Community Psychology.
Dr Terlecki is a BPS Charter Clinical Psychologist (HCPC Reg.). She holds an honorary post as a Clinical Psychologist in addictions services in the East London NHS Trust.
Division of Clinical Psychology
Faculty of Addiction
American Psychological Association, Member
Division 12 (Clinical Psychology)
Division 50 (Addictions)
Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Member
Research Society on Alcoholism, Member
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Health Care Professions Council registered Chartered Psychologist
Overview
Meredith’s research is broadly on the identification and prevention of alcohol and substance use disorders among high-risk young adults. She is also interested in determining which substance use treatments work the best for which clients and why. Meredith has recently focused her research on understanding the relationship between social anxiety and alcohol use among participants in alcohol treatment studies.
Projects
RadioActive as a digital radio intervention for reducing psychosocial problems among hard to reach and excluded at-risk groups. Collaborators: Andrew Ravenscroft, PhD, Gordon Kerr, Colin Rainey, Tom Gerken, UEL CASS School of Education & Communities with UEL School of Digital Industries.|
Social anxiety and heavy drinking: the mediating effect of protective behavioral strategies. Collaborators: Julia Buckner, PhD, Louisiana State University, USA.|
Injunctive norms & social anxiety. Collaborators: Julia Buckner, PhD and Anthony Ecker, MA, Louisiana State University, USA.|
BASICS for mandated and volunteer students: Individual differences variables affecting treatment outcomes. Collaborators: Amy Copeland, PhD and Julia Buckner, PhD. |Louisiana State University, USA. Mary Larimer, University of Washington, USA.|
Grants
Addiction, At-Risk Youth & Digital Media: Development & Evaluation of an Internet Radio Intervention to Reduce Substance Misuse among Excluded and Hard-to-Reach Youth Principal Investigator: Andrew Ravenscroft, Ph.D. Co-Investigator: Meredith Terlecki, Ph.D. Research Student: Tom Gerken Source: University of East London Mechanism: Ph.D. Research Studentship Period: September 2014 – August 2017 Award: £59,577|
Computerised Health Feedback Intervention for University Substance Users: A Pilot Study Principal Investigator: Meredith Terlecki, Ph.D. Agency: The University of East London Mechanism: Early Career Research Accelerator Award Period: January 2013 – July 2013 Direct Costs: £6,312|
Brief alcohol intervention for heavy drinking mandated college students. Principal Investigator: Meredith Terlecki, M.A. Mentors: Amy Copeland, Ph.D.; Co-Mentors: Mary E. Larimer, Ph.D., Richard D. Scribner, M.D., M.P.H., & Julia D. Buckner, Ph.D. Agency: U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Mechanism: National Research Service Award Pre-doctoral Fellowship F31 AA17565 Period: September 2010 – August 2011 Direct Costs: $33,731 |
Research Groups
UEL Health Psychology Research Group, Member
UEL Addictive Behaviours Research Group, Member
UEL Substance Use and Misuse Research Network, Member
International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs, Member
Research Supervision
Dr Terlecki is open to enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the following areas: addiction, alcohol, drugs, social anxiety, behavioural intervention trials, prevention, brief interventions, and motivational interviewing.
Collaborators
- UEL
- External
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Associate Professor
Dr Julia D. Buckner