In addition to my work as a therapist, I am a scientist interested in how we work and how we can better our lives. My research investigates topics related to mental health, couple relationships/marriage, couples counseling, the benefits of mindfulness, and stress physiology. I am also a reviewer for the Journal of Family Psychology and Family Relations.
If you’re interested in reading about my research, here are a couple of articles written by journalists that cover some of my recent research:
—Forbes: A Psychologist Explains how Mindfulness Can Transform Your Love and Sex Life
—MindBodyGreen: Researchers May Have Finally Figured Out the Link Between Commitment and Good Sex
—Therapytips.org: A Psychologist Explains How ‘Mindful Partnering’ Can Help Revive Your Relationship
Or, here are a couple of articles I wrote as a Psychology Today writer describing studies my colleagues and I conducted recently:
—Why Fights With Your Spouse Are Making Your Teenager Anxious
—How to Calm Your Partner Down in Conflict
Check out a list of my conference presentations and publications below- and if you’re interested, you can click on the doi links or search any of the titles in google scholar!
My Research Publications
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R.G, Prince, M.A, Quirk, K., & Coatsworth, J.D. (2021). Mindful Partnering: introducing a novel theoretical construct and testing the psychometric properties of the mindful partnering measure (MPM). Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Faw, M., Brown, S., Prosser, J.L., Quirk, K., & Smith, A. (2022). Gendered Beliefs and Behaviors in Couple Relationships as Predictors of Physiological Stress Functioning. Family Relations. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fare.12671
Miller, R. L., Moran, M., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Sanchez, N., Seiter, N.S., Rayburn, S., Verros M., Johnson S, Zimmerman, T., Haddock, S., & Shomaker, L. B. (2022). Mental health and health behaviors among college student mentors in a randomized controlled trial interrupted by COVID-19. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2086007
Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Miller, R.L., Seiter, N.S., Prince, M.A., Crain, T.L., & Shomaker, L.B. (2021). Within-person variations in mindfulness mediate effects of daily stressors on psychological distress in adolescence. Psychology and Health.
Lobo, L.M., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Lunkenheimer, E., & Seiter, N.S. (2021). Parental emotion coaching moderates the effects of family stress on social development. Social Development. DOI: 10.1111/sode.12519
Miller, R. L., Moran, M., Shomaker, L. B., Seiter, N.S, Sanchez, N., Verros, M., . . . Lucas-Thompson, R. (2021). Health effects of COVID-19 for vulnerable adolescents in a randomized controlled trial. School Psychology, 36(5), 293-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000458
Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Seiter, N.S., Miller, R.L., Rigsby, B., & Crain, T.L. (2021). Inadequate sleep moderates effects of interparental conflict appraisals on adolescent adjustment. Sleep Health.
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Miller, R., & Seiter, N.S. (2020). Dispositional mindfulness is cross-sectionally predicted by interactions between interparental conflict and parent-child relationships. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110556
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Seiter, N.S, Miller, R., & Crain, T. (2020). Does dispositional mindfulness buffer the links of stressful life experiences with adolescent adjustment and sleep? Stress and Health. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2980
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Lunkenheimer, E.S, & Seiter, N.S. (2020). Interparental conflict and attention to angry interpersonal interactions as risk factors for adolescent anxiety. Family Relations. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fare.12505
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Rayburn, S., & Seiter, N.S. (2020). Learning to BREATHE “Plus”: A Multi-Modal Adaptive Supplement to an Evidence-Based Mindfulness intervention for Adolescents. Frontiers in Public Health
Seiter, N.S., & Lucas-Thompson, R.G. (2019). Marital conflict in the context of novel stress: associations with physiological stress functioning. Family Relations. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fare.12429
Seiter, N.S. Quirk, K., Hardy, N., Zinbarg, R., Goldsmith, J., & Pinsof, W.M. (2019). Changes in Commitment and Sexual Satisfaction: Trajectories in Couple Therapy. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2019.1677274
Seiter, N. S., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., & Henry, K.L. (2019). Partner communication behaviors and diurnal cortisol patterns. Journal of Family Issues. doi: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0192513X19868260
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., & Graham, D.J. (2019). Interparental conflict moderates the association between neighborhood stress and adolescent health. Journal of Family Psychology. doi: https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ffam0000500
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Seiter, N.S., Broderick, P, Coatsworth, J.D., Mckernan, C.J., & Smyth, J.M. (2019). The Moving 2 Mindful (M2M) Study Protocol: Testing a Mindfulness Group + Ecological Momentary Intervention to Decrease Stress and Anxiety in Adolescents from High-Conflict Homes. BMJ Open. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030948
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Miller, R., Seiter, N.S, & Prince, M. (2019). Short communication: Dispositional mindfulness predicts cortisol, cardiovascular, and psychological stress responses in adolescence. Psychoneuroimmunology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104405
Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Seiter, N.S., Coatsworth, J.D., & Broderick, P. (2019).“You fight and I suffer”: mindfulness interventions to reduce impact of interparental conflict on adolescents. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-019-01599-y
Seiter, N.S., Smith, A.D., & Quirk, K. (2018). Holon in Family Systems Theory. Entry prepared for: J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Bruenlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: Springer. doi: http://springer.iq-technikum.de/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_281-1
Smith, A.D., Seiter, N.S., & Quirk, K. (2018) Listening in Couple and Family Therapy. Entry prepared for: J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Bruenlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: Springer. doi: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-15877-8_190-1
Seiter, N.S., Smith, A.D., & Quirk, K. (2017). Emotional Reactivity in Emotion-Focused Couple Therapy. Entry prepared for: J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Bruenlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: Springer. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-15877-8_176-1
Smith, A.D., Seiter, N.S., & Quirk, K.(2017). Within My Reach Enrichment Program. Entry prepared for: J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Bruenlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: Springer. doi: http://springer.iq-technikum.de/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_379-1?page=46
Smith, A.D., Seiter, N.S., & Quirk, K. (2017). Heterosexism in Couple and Family Therapy. In: J. Lebow, A. Chambers & D. Bruenlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. New York: Springer. doi: http://springer.iq-technikum.de/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_897-1
Thuma, J. B., Hobbs, K. H., Burstein, H. J., Seiter, N. S., & Hooper, S. L (2013). Temperature Sensitivity of the Pyloric Neuromuscular System and Its Modulation by Dopamine. PLoS ONE, E67930-E67930.
My National Conference Presentations
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R.G, Prince, M.A, Quirk, K., & Coatsworth, J.D. (2021, May). What is Mindful Partnering and How Do We Measure It? Presentation given at the Mindfulness and Relationships Conference, Online.
Prosser, J. L., Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Faw, M. H., Brown, S. M., Quirk, K., & Smith, A. D. (2020, July). Gendered beliefs and behaviors in couple relationships as predictors of physiological stress functioning. Paper presented at International Association for Relationship Research, London.
Miller, R. L., Moran, M., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Sanchez, N., Seiter, N., Rayburn, S., Verros, M., Johnson, S., Shomaker L. B. (2021, August). Defeating the COVID-19 mental health crisis. Psych Science in 3 presentation at the 2021 APA Virtual Conference, Online.
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Prince, M. Quirk, K., & Coatsworth, J.D. (2020, November). Mindful Partnering: Introducing a Novel Theoretical Construct and Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Mindful Partnering Measure (MPM). Presentation given at the Mind & Life Contemplative Research Conference, Online.
Miller, R.L., Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Sanchez N., Seiter N., Rayburn S., Verros M., Johnson S, Coatsworth J.D., Shomaker L.B. (2020, November). Adolescent Mindfulness, Stress and PTSD Symptoms during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Mind & Life Contemplative Research Conference, Online.
Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Miller, R., Seiter, N.S, Crain, T., & Shomaker, L. Day-to-day variations in mindfulness mediate effects of stressful experiences on perceived stress. Paper accepted for presentation [conference cancelled due to pandemic] at the 2020 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA, March, 2020.
Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Seiter, N.S., Rayburn, S., Broderick, P., Coatsworth, J.D., Henry, K.L., & Smyth, J.M. Mixed-methods evidence to support the development and refinement of a multi-method adaptive supplement to a mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents. Paper accepted for presentation [conference cancelled due to pandemic] at the 2020 32nd Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, May 2020.
Prosser, J. L., Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R. G., Faw, M. H., Brown, S. M., Quirk, K., & Smith, A. D. Gendered beliefs and behaviors in couple relationships as predictors of physiological stress functioning. Paper accepted for presentation [conference cancelled due to pandemic] at International Association for Relationship Research, London, July 2020.
Seiter, N.S., Lucas-Thompson, R.G., Carson, J., & Mckernan, C.J. (2018, July). Mindfulness, interparental conflict appraisals, and depressive symptoms. Presentation given at the International Association for Relationship Research Annual Convention, Fort Collins, CO.
Seiter, N.S., & Lucas-Thompson, R.G. (2017, November). Partner communication behaviors and diurnal cortisol patterns. Presentation given at the National Council for Family Relationships Annual Convention, Orlando, FL.
Lucas-Thompson, & R.G., Seiter, N.S. (2017, November). Maternal emotion coaching moderates the association between family chaos and adolescent depressive symptoms. Presentation given at the National Council for Family Relationships Annual Convention, Orlando, FL.
Seiter, N.S., Sacchetti, G.M., & Wymbs, B.T (2015, November). Quality of marital communication behavior is predicted by income dynamics. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Dawson, A.E., Sacchetti, G.M., Wymbs, B.T, & Seiter, N.S. (2015, November).The role of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies in the association between adult ADHD and functional impairment.Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Arnett, S.M., Dawson, A.E., Wymbs, B.T., Seiter, N.S, & Gidycz, C.A., (2015, November). Comparing rates and onset age of mental health diagnoses among males, females, and transgender individuals in a large online sample. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
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