Faculty and Staff

Pamela Jumper Thurman, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Project Director, Clinical Psychologist
Pamela.Thurman@colostate.edu
350 SE Aylesworth Hall
Interests: Native American Studies, Community Readiness, HIV/AIDS, Substance Use, Cultural Issues, Women's Issues, Program Evaluation, Partner Violence, Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment, Expressive Arts Therapy, Child Therapy

Selected Publications:

Vernon, I. & Jumper-Thurman, P. (Manuscript Submitted). Native American Women and HIV/AIDS: Building Healthier Communities. American Indian Quarterly.

Stallones, L., Gibbs-Long, J., 1, Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B., & Gabella, B. (Manuscript submitted). Community readiness and community initiated prevention of traumatic brain injury, Summit County, Colorado 1998-2000. Journal of Health Promotion Practice.

Beauvais, F., Oetting, E. R., Edwards, R. W., Swaim, R., Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B. A., & Deffenbacher, J. L. (in press). Inhalant use in the United States. In E. E. Zvartau (Ed.), Inhalants. Moscow: Pavlov Medical University.

Jumper-Thurman, P. (2008). Drugs don’t discriminate. Ask The Expert Series, Partnership for a Drug Free America. http://www.drugfree.org/Intervention/ Resources/Expert/QA/
Pamela_Jumper_Thurman. Internet Article.

Jumper-Thurman, P. & Edwards, R. (2007). Editor of Special Edition, Journal of Substance Use and Misuse: Special Issue on Strength Based Models To Overcome Health Disparities: Bridging Research to Practice. Vol. 42:4.

Jumper-Thurman, P, Vernon, I, & Plested, B. (2007). Advancing HIV/AIDS prevention among American Indians through capacity building and the community readiness model. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., Burnsside, M., & Plested, B. (2007). Prevalence of American Indian adolescent tobacco use: 1993-2004. Substance Useand Misuse, Vol. 42:4, pp 591-601.

Edwards, R.W., Stanley, L., Plested, B. A., Marquart, B., Chen, J., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2007). Disparities in young adolescent inahalnt use by rurality, gender, and ethnicity. Substance Use and Misuse, Vol. 42:4, pp 543-670.

Thurman, P. & Edwards, R. (2007). Proceedings “Strength-based models to overcome disparities: Bridging research to practice,” a conference held at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, September 9 and 10, 2002. Substance Use and Misuse, Vol. 42:4, pp 687-692.

Plested, B., Edwards, R., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2007) Disparities in community readiness for HIV/AIDS prevention. Substance Use and Misuse, 42:729-739.

Slater, M.D., Kelly, K., Edwards, R., Plested, B., Thurman, P.J., Keefe, T., Lawrence, F. & Henry, K. (2006). Combining in-school and participatory, community-based media efforts: Reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents. Health Education Research, 21, 157-167.

Vernon, I & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2006) The changing face of HIV/AIDS among Native Populations: What’s Changed and What Remains the Same? Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

Slater, M. D., Edwards, R. W., Plested, B. A., Thurman, P. J., Kelly, K. J., Comello, M. L. G., & Keefe, T. J. (2005). Using Community Readiness key informant assessments in a randomized group prevention trial: Impact of a participatory community-media intervention. Journal of Community Health, 30(1), 39-53.

Bubar, R. & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2004). Violence against Native Women.[Special issue]. Social Justice Journal, 31, 70-86.

Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B., Helm, H., & Burnside, M. (2004). Surveillance of drug use among American Indian adolescents: Patterns over 25 years. Journal of Adolescent Health, 34(6), 493-500.

Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2004). Community readiness: Native and HIV/AIDS Prevention. Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Colorado State University. Ft. Collins, CO.

Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (2004). Community readiness: The key to successful change. Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, Colorado State University. Ft. Collins, CO.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Allen, J. & Deter. P. B.(2004). The Circles of Care evaluation: Doing participatory evaluation with American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. American Indian and Native Mental Health Research, 11(2), 139-154.

Novins, D., LeMaster, P., Jumper Thurman, P., & Plested, B. (2004). Describing community needs – Examples from the Circles of Care initiative. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. 11(2), 42-58.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Edwards, R. W., & Plested, B. (2003). Ethnic and Cultural Considerations in Caregiving. In Caregiving and Mental Health. The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Human Development, Georgia Southwestern College. Americus: GA.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Edwards, R. W., & Plested, B. (2003). Honoring the differences: Using community readiness to create culturally valid community interventions. In G. Bernal, J. E. Trimble, A. K. Burlew, & F. T. L. Leong (Eds.), Handbook of racial & ethnic minority psychology (pp. 591-607). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., Foley, R., & Burnside, M. (2003). Community Readiness: The Journey to Community Healing. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 35(1), 27-31.

Kelly, K. J., Edwards, R. W., Comello, M. L. G., Plested, B. A., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Slater, M. D. (2003). The Community Readiness Model: A complementary approach to social marketing. Journal of Marketing Theory, 3(4), 411-425.

Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Plested, B. (2002). Prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse among Indian adolescent: An examination of current assumptions. In P. D. Mail, S. Heurtin-Roberts, S. E. Martin, & J. Howard (Eds.), Alcohol use among American Indians and Alaska Natives (NIH Publication No. 02-4231, pp. 187-209). Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P. Plested, B., & Helm, H. (2002). A survey of attitudes among drug user treatment providers toward the treatment of inhalant users. Substance Use & Misuse, 37(11), 1391-1410.

Beauvais, F., Wayman, J., Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B., & Helm, H. (2002). Inhalant use among American Indian, Mexican-American & non-Latino White adolescents. American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse, 28(1), 171-187.

Trimble, J. E. & Jumper Thurman, P. (2002). Ethnocultural considerations and strategies for providing counseling services to Native American Indians. In P. B. Pedersen, J. G. Draguns, W. J. Lonner, & J. E. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures: Ethnocultural Populations (5th ed., pp. 53-91). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Vernon, I. & Jumper Thurman, P. (2002). Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Native communities: Promising interventions. Public Health Reports, 117(Suppl. 1), S96-S103.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., Oetting, E.R., and Helm, H. (2001). Using the Community Readiness Model in Native communities. In J. Trimble & F. Beauvais (Eds.), Health promotion and substance abuse prevention among American Indian and Alaska Native communities: Issues in cultural competence (CSAP Monograph, Cultural Competence Series No. 9, DHHS Publication No .SMA 99-3440, pp. 129-158). Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Oetting, E. R., Jumper-Thurman, P. J., Plested, B., & Edwards, R. W. (2001). Community readiness and health services. Substance Use and Misuse, 36(6&7), 825-843.

Edwards, R. W., Jumper-Thurman. P., Plested, B. A., Oetting, E. R., & Swanson, L. (2000). Community Readiness: Practice to research. Journal of Community Psychology, 28(3), 291-307.

Jumper-Thurman, P. (2000). In D. Bigfoot (Ed.), Community Readiness: A promising model for community healing. (Native American topic specific monograph series). The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Bates, S.C., & Plested, B. (2000). Solvent use, school attendance, gender and ethnicity. Prevention Researcher, 7(3), 10-11.

Jumper-Thurman, P. & Plested, B. (2000). Community readiness: A model for healing in a rural Alaskan community. The Family Psychologist, (Summer), 8-9.

Mulder, P.L., Shellenberger, S., Streiegel, R., Jumper-Thurman, P., Danda, C.E., Kenkel, M.B., Constantine, M.G., Sears, S.F., Kalodner, M., & Hager, A. (2000). The behavioral health care needs of rural women. Washington, DC: Office of Rural Health, American Psychological Association, http://www.apa.org/rural/ruralwomen.pdf.

Stubben, J. & Thurman, P.J. (2000). Treatment Interventions in American Indian communities. In Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Monograph, Rockville, MD.

Thurman, P.J., Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., Chen, J., Swaim, R. (2000). Intervention and treatment with ethnic minority substance abusers. In J. F. Aponte & J. Wohl (Eds.), Psychological intervention and cultural diversity (2nd ed., pp. 214-233). Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon.

Jumper-Thurman, P. (1999). Definition of American Indian, Alaska Native. In J. S. Mio, J. E. Trimble, P. Arrendondo, H. E. Ceatham, & D. Sue (Eds.) Key Words in Multicultural Interventions: A dictionary (pp. 11-12, 15-16). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Plested, B.A., Smitham, D.M., Jumper-Thurman, P., Oetting, E.R., and Edwards, R.W. (1999). Readiness for drug use prevention in rural minority communities. Journal of Substance Use and Misuse, 34(4&5), 521-544.

Plested, B.A., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Edwards, R.W. (1999). Community Readiness: A model for community change. Substance Use and Misuse, 34 (4&5), 521-544.

Edwards, R. W., Thurman, P. J., Plested, B., Helm, H., Holmquist, J., Arellano, C. & Smitham, D. (1998). Intimate partner violence in rural minority communities. In L. Heise & L. Michau (Eds.), Global overview on violence against women. Washington, DC: Health and Development Policy Project. Also to be published in a special edition of Johns Hopkins University’s Population Reports.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Slater, M., Smitham, D. M., Serrato, S., Plested, B. A., & Helm, H. (1998). How effective are inhalant prevention media materials? Pathways: A Practical Forum for Services to Indian Children and Families, 13(3), 3 & 11.

Plested, B.A., Jumper-Thurman, P., Edwards, R. & Oetting, E.R. (1998). Community Readiness: A tool for effective community-based prevention. Prevention Researcher, 5(2), 5-7.

Smitham, D. M., Moya, B., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Plested, B.A. (1998). Inhalant resource manual: A guide to educational tools. Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research and Colorado State University: Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Thurman, P.J. (1998). Commentary: Strategies and mechanisms for meeting the health care needs of communities of color. In V. De La Cancela, J. L. Chin, & Y. M. Jenkins (Eds.), Community health psychology, pp. 52-53. NY: Routledge.

Jumper-Thurman, P., (1998). Research needs of American Indian women. In C. L. Wetherington & A. B. Roman (Eds.), Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women (NIH Publication No. 98-4290, pp. 127-130). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Jumper-Thurman, P., & Plested, B.A. (1998). Health needs of American Indian women. In C. L. Wetherington & A. B. Roman (Eds.), Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women (NIH Publication No. 98-4290, pp. 553-563). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Thurman, P.J. & Green, V.A. (1998). American Indian adolescent Inhalant use. The American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 8(1), 24-40.

Bates, S. C., Plemmons, B. W., Jumper Thurman, P., & Beauvais, F. (1997). Volatile solvent use: Patterns by gender and ethnicity among school attenders and dropouts. Drugs and Society, 10(1/2), 61-78.

Donnermeyer, J.F., Oetting, E.R., Plested, B.A., Edwards, R.W., Jumper-Thurman, P., and Littlethunder, L. (1997). Community readiness and prevention programs. Journal of Community Development, 28(1), 65-83.

Thurman, P.J. & Edwards, R. W. (1996). Rural mental health needs for people of color. Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs Newsletter, pp. 37-39.

Trimble, J. E., Fleming, C., Beauvais, F., & Thurman, P. (1996). Essential cultural and social strategies for counseling Native American Indians. In P. Pedersen, J. Draguns, W. Lonner, & J. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures (4th ed., Vol. 4, pp. 177-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Edwards, R. W., Jumper Thurman, P., & Beauvais, F. (1995). Patterns of alcohol use among ethnic minority adolescent women. In M. Galanter (Ed.), Recent developments in alcoholism, Volume 12: Women and alcoholism (pp. 369-386). New York: Plenum Press.

Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B.A. & Beauvais, F. (1995). Treatment Strategies for volatile solvent abusers in the United States. In N. Kozel, Z. Sloboda, & M. De La Rosa (Eds.), Epidemiology of inhalant abuse: An interrnational perspective (NIDA Research Monograph No. 148, pp. 250-259). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Jumper Thurman, P., Swaim, R.C., & Plested, B.A. (1995). Intervention and treatment of ethnic minority substance abusers. In J. Aponte, R. Rivers, and J.Wohl (Eds.) Psychological intervention and treatment of ethnic minorities (pp. 215-233). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Plested, B.A. & Jumper-Thurman, P. (1995). Failure in organization and planning: A case study of a treatment agency. International Journal of the Addictions, 30(6), 735-746.

Thurman, P.J. (1995). Native American Community Alcohol Prevention Research. In P.A. Langton (Ed.), The challenge of participatory research: Preventing alcohol- related problems in ethnic communities (CSAP Cultural Competence Series No. 3), (DHHS Publication No. 95-3042, pp. 245-258). Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Trimble, J., Fleming, C. Beauvais, F., & Jumper-Thurman, P. (1995). Providing counseling services for Native American Indians: Client, counselor, and community characteristics. In P. Pedersen, J. Draguns, W. Lonner, & J. Trimble (Eds.), Counseling across cultures, (5th ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Jumper-Thurman, P. & Beauvais, F. (1993). Treatment of Volatile Substance Abusers. In C. Sharp, F. Beauvais, & R. Spence (Eds.), Inhalant abuse: A volatile research agenda (NIDA Research Monograph No. 129), (NIH Publication No. 93-3480, pp. 203-213). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Swaim, R.C., Oetting, E.R., Thurman, P.J., Beauvais, F., & Edwards, R. (1993). American Indian, adolescent drug use and socialization characteristics: A cross- cultural comparison. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 24(1), 53-70.

Thurman, P.J. (1991). American Indian families build new strengths on ancient traditions. Family Resource Coalition Report, 3, 11.

Thurman, P.J., Jones-Saumty, D.J., & Parsons, O.A. (1990). Locus of control and drinking behavior in American Indian alcoholics and non-alcoholics. Journal of the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 4(1), 31-39.

Thurman, P., Martin, D., & Martin, M. (1985). An assessment of attempted suicides among adolescent Cherokee Indians, Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 13, 176-182.