Some of Our Current Research Projects:

  • Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC) Delivered to Fraternities and Sororities: Long-term Outcomes
  • Sober Harms: A New Understanding of Alcohol-related Harms
  • Vaping Expectancies: Nicotine, THC, and “Flavor”
  • Development of an Expectancy Challenge Intervention/Prevention Program for THC
  • Initiation of Alcohol Use in First Year College Students
  • Underlying Dimensions of PTSD Symptoms Pre- and Post-Treatment in Women with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder
  • Social Connectedness and College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, and Need to Belong
  • Acute Intoxication: A Program to Teach Appropriate Responses
  • Effectiveness of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC) with First Year College Students

Clinical Opportunities for Ph.D. Students

Under Dr. Dunn’s Supervision:

  • Paid Clinical Assistantship: Assessment and treatment of Substance Use Disorders in the UCF Substance Use Disorders Clinic.
  • Clinical Externship: Assessment and treatment of Substance Use Disorders in the UCF Substance Use Disorders Clinic.
  • Assessment and treatment of Substance Use Disorders in the UCF Psychology Clinic.
  • Conduct group interventions focused on alcohol.

In the Community:

  • Externships available at the Orlando VAMC that include Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Interested in becoming a research assistant? 

Please visit the UCF RA Match website and fill out an application:

https://sciences.ucf.edu/psychology/ramatch/