Jessica Powers
Contact Info
Lawrence
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045
Biography —
Dr. Jessica Powers is an Assistant Scientist in the Cofrin Logan Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on pain, substance use, and health behavior as it relates to cancer and chronic illness. She takes a multi-method approach to identify pain-related mechanisms to inform and develop tailored and accessible interventions. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Northwestern University and her Master's and Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from Syracuse University.
Selected Publications —
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Powers, J. M., Zvolensky, M. J., & Ditre, J. W. (2019). An integrative review of personalized feedback interventions for pain and alcohol. Current opinion in psychology, 30, 48–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.01.013
Ditre, J. W., Heckman, B. W., LaRowe, L. R., & Powers, J. M. (2021). Pain Status as a Predictor of Smoking Cessation Initiation, Lapse, and Relapse. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 23(1), 186–194. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa111
Powers, J. M., Maisto, S. A., Zvolensky, M. J., Heckman, B. W., & Ditre, J. W. (2023). Longitudinal Associations Between Pain and Use of Cigarettes and E-cigarettes in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 25(3), 404–411. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac197
Powers, J. M., LaRowe, L. R., Heckman, B. W., & Ditre, J. W. (2020). Pain characteristics and nicotine deprivation as predictors of performance during a laboratory paradigm of smoking cessation. Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 34(2), 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000532
Hosseinian, Z., Lehan, A., Powers, J. M., Melendez, A., Fisher, H. M., Shelby, R., Somers, T., Keefe, F., Paice, J., Kimmick, G., Burns, J., Flores, A. M., Fox, R. S., Kaiser, K., Farrell, D., Westbrook, K., & Rini, C. (2025). Web-Based Pain Coping Skills Training (PCST) for Managing Aromatase Inhibitor-Associated Arthralgia in Breast Cancer Survivors: Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol. Contemporary clinical trials, 149, 107780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2024.107780
Zale, E. L., Powers, J. M., & Ditre, J. W. (2021). Cognitive-Affective Transdiagnostic Factors Associated With Vulnerability to Alcohol and Prescription Opioid Use in the Context of Pain. Alcohol research : current reviews, 41(1), 08. https://doi.org/10.35946/arcr.v41.1.08