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James Houston Bray, Ph.D. (1954–)
Introduction
James H. Bray is a distinguished American psychologist who has made major contributions to family and health psychology, including divorce, remarriage and stepfamilies, intergenerational family relationships, adolescent substance use, and screening and brief interventions for substance use. He is a pioneer in collaborative healthcare and primary care psychology and several as president of the American Psychological Association in 2009.
Career
Bray received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Houston in 1980. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Family Therapy at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences, he was appointed faculty at Texas Woman’s University (TWU) – Houston Center and remained there for 6 years. In 1987, Bray joined the Department of Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he continues to engage in research, teaching, and patient services.
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Bray, J. H. (2004). Personal authority in the family system questionnaire manual (2nd ed.). Houston: D-Boy Productions.
Bray, J. H. (2010). The future of psychology practice and science. American Psychologist, 65, 355–369.
Bray, J. H., & Berger, S. H. (1993). Developmental issues in stepfamilies research project: Family relationships and parent-child interactions. Journal of Family Psychology, 7, 76–90.
Bray, J. H., & Kelly, J. (1998). Stepfamilies: Love, marriage, and parenting in the first decade. New York: Broadway Books. Paperback edition, April 1999. Stiefouder en stiefkinderen (Dutch ed.). Amsterdam: Forum, 1999.
Bray, J. H., & Maxwell, S. E. (1985). Multivariate analysis of variance. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Bray, J. H., & Rogers, J. C. (1997). The linkages project: Training behavioral health professionals for collaborative practice with primary care physicians. Families, Systems, & Health, 15, 55–63.
Bray, J. H., & Stanton, M. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of family psychology. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bray, J. H., Williamson, D. S., & Malone, P. E. (1984). Personal authority in the family system: Development of a questionnaire to measure personal authority in intergenerational family processes. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 10, 167–178.
Bray, J. H., Adams, G., Getz, J. G., & Baer, P. E. (2001). Developmental, family, and ethnic influences on adolescent alcohol usage: A growth curve approach. Journal of Family Psychology, 15, 301–314.
Bray, J. H., Adams, G. A., Getz, J. G., & McQueen, A. (2003). Individuation, peers and adolescent alcohol use: A latent growth analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 553–564.
Bray, J. H., Kowalchuk, A. K., Waters, V., Laufman, L., & Shilling, E. H. (2012). Baylor SBIRT medical residency training program: Model description and initial evaluation. Substance Abuse, 33, 231–240.
Frank, R., McDaniel, S. H., Bray, J. H., & Heldring, M. (Eds.). (2004). Primary care psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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Nash, S. (2017). Bray, James. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_871-1
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