CURRICULUM VITA
FREDERICK BEAUVAIS
Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research
Department of Psychology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
(970) 491-6828
e-mail: Fred.Beauvais@colostate.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
1975 Colorado State University
Major Field: Psychology
M.S.
1972 Colorado State University
Major Field: Psychology
B.A.
1966 University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Major Field: Mathematics
RESEARCH/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND HONORS
1968-1970 Special Education Teacher, Colorado State Hospital, Pueblo, Colorado
1972-1975 Staff Psychologist, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
1975-1977 Program Evaluator, Navajo Community College, Tsaile, Arizona
1979-1980 Resident, National Science Foundation
1977-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University
1977-Present Research Associate to Senior Research Scientist, Colorado State University
Professional Affiliations:
National Advisory Council, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1995-2000
American Psychological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Public Health Association
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Beauvais, F., & LaBoueff, S. (1985). Drug and alcohol abuse intervention in American Indian
communities. The International Journal of the Addictions, 20(1), 139-171.
Beauvais, F., Oetting, E. R., Wolf, W., & Edwards, R. W. (1989). American Indian youth and drugs: 19751987 - A continuing problem. American Journal of Public Health, 79(5), 634-636.
Oetting, E. R., & Beauvais, F. (1990). Orthogonal cultural identification theory: The cultural identification
of minority adolescents. International Journal of the Addictions, 25(5A & 6A), 655-685.
Oetting, E. R., & Beauvais, F. (1990). Adolescent drug use: Findings of national and local surveys.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58(4), 385-394.
Beauvais, F. (1992). Drug use and American Indian youth [Special issue]. American Indian and Alaska
Native Mental Health Research, 5(1).
Beauvais, F. (1992). Volatile solvent abuse: Trends and patterns. 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. 13-42). Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Beauvais, F., & Segal, B. (1992). Drug use patterns among American Indian & Alaskan Native youth:
Special rural populations. In R. Edwards (Ed.), Drug use in rural American communities. New York:
Haworth Press.
Swaim, R., Oetting, E. R., Thurman, P., Beauvais, F., & Edwards, R. (1993). American Indian adolescent
drug use and socialization characteristics: A cross-cultural comparison. Jrl of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 24, 53-70.
Beauvais, F. (1995). Ethnic communities and research: Building a new alliance. In P. A. Langton (Ed.),
The challenge of participatory research: Preventing alcohol-related problems in ethnic communities.
(CSAP Cultural Competence Series 3) . Rockville, MD: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Beauvais, F. (1996). Trends in drug use among American Indian students and dropouts, 1975-1994.
American Journal of Public Health, 86(11), 1594-1598.
Beauvais, F., Chavez, E. L., Oetting, E. R., Deffenbacher, J. L., & Cornell, G. R. (1996). Drug use,
violence and victimization among White American Mexican American, and American Indian dropouts,
students with academic problems, and students in good academic standing. Journal of Counseling
Psychology, 43(3), 292-299.
Bates, S. C., Beauvais, F., & Trimble, J. E. (1997). American Indian adolescent alcohol involvement
and ethnic identification. Substance Use and Misuse, 32(14), 2013-2031.
Bates, S. C., Plemons, B. W., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Beauvais, F. (1997). Volatile solvent use:
Patterns by gender and ethnicity among school attenders and dropouts. In F. Beauvais & J. E.
Trimble (Eds.), Sociocultural perspectives on volatile solvent use (pp. 61-78). Binghamton, NY:
Harrington Park Press.
Beauvais, F. (1997). Research topics for the problem of volatile solvent abuse. In F. Beauvais & J. E.
Trimble (Eds.), Sociocultural perspectives on volatile solvent use (pp. 103-107). Binghamton, NY:
Harrington Park Press (also published in Drugs and Society, 10(1/2), 103-107.)
Beauvais, F. (1997). Volatile solvent abuse: Trends and patterns. Substance Use and Misuse, 32(12
&13), 1829-1834.
Beauvais, F., & Trimble, J. E. (Eds.). (1997). Sociocultural perspectives on volatile solvent use.
Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press.
Beauvais, F. (1998). American Indians and alcohol. Alcohol Health and Research World, 22(4), 253259.
Beauvais, F. (1998). Cultural identification and substance use in North America: An annotated
bibliography. Substance Use & Misuse, 33(6), 1315-1336.
Beauvais, F. (1999). Obtaining consent and other ethical issues in the conduct of research in American
Indian communities. In M. R. De La Rosa, B. Segal, & R. Lopez (Eds.), Conducting drug abuse
research with minority populations: Advances and issues (pp. 167-184). Binghamton, New York: The
Haworth Press, Inc.
Beauvais, F. (2000). Indian adolescence: Opportunity and challenge. In R. Montmeyer, G. Adams, &
T. Gullota, (Eds.), Adolescent diversity in ethnic, economic and cultural contexts (pp. 110-140).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Beauvais, F. (2001). Do school-based drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs work in American
Indian communities? In J. E. Trimble, F. Beauvais, L. G. Epstein, & G. Pacheco (Eds.), Health
promotion and substance abuse prevention among American Indian and Alaska Native communities:
Issues in cultural competence (DHHS Publication No.SMA 99-3440, Cultural Competence Series No.
9, pp. 203-214). Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Beauvais, F., & Oetting, E. R. (2002). Variances in the etiology of drug use among ethnic groups of
adolescents. Public Health Reports, 117(Supp. 1), S8-S14.
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), 1-18.
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., & Oetting, E. (2003). Drug abuse: Etiology and cultural considerations. In G. Bernal, J. E.
Trimble, A. K. Burlew, & F. T. L. Leong (Eds.), Handbook of racial & ethnic minority psychology (pp.
448-464). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Beauvais, F., & Trimble, J. E. (2003). The effectiveness of alcohol and drug abuse prevention among
American-Indian youth. In Z. Sloboda & W. J. Bukoski (Eds.), Handbook of drug abuse prevention:
Theory, science, and practice (pp. 393-410). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., Plested, B., & Helm, H. (2004). Surveillance of drug use among
American Indian adolescents: Patterns over 25 years. Journal of Adolescent Health,34,493-499.
Beauvais, F., Jumper Thurman, P., Burnside, M., & Plested, B. (2007). Prevalence of American
Indian adolescent tobacco use: 1993-2004. Substance Use & Misuse, 42(4) 591-60.
Miller, K., Beauvais, F., Burnside, M. and Jumper-Thurman, P. (2008). A comparison of American
Indian and Non-Indian fourth to sixth graders rates of drug use. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance
Abuse, 7, 258-267.
Beauvais, F., Jumper-Thurman, P., & Burnside, M. (in press). The changing patterns of drug use
among American Indian students over the past 30 years. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental
Health Research.
RESEARCH SUPPORT (ONGOING OR COMPLETED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS)
Ongoing:
R01 DA03371-17 Beauvais (PI)
9/01/2000 - 8/31/2006
NIH /NIDA
Drug Use Among Young Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction
The major goal of this project is to study the epidemiology and correlates of drug use among Indian youth.
Role: PI
R01 DA03371-19S1 Beauvais (PI)
NIH/NIDA
Drug Use Among Young Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction: Supplement
9/1/2002 - 8/31/2006
The major goal of this project is to supplement the drug use surveillance project by including the
majority
of BIA schools in the sample
Role: PI
N01AA01013 Beauvais (PI)
9/21/2000-12/31/2005
NIH/NIAAA
Reduction of Alcohol Use through a Collaborative Research Project with the Tulalip Tribe of Washington
State
The major goal of this project is to assist a reservation community in defining a research project that
would produce useful information for addressing alcohol problems. Once the problem is defined, a
pilot research project will be designed and implemented.
Role: PI
P50 DA07074-09 Oetting (PI)
7/15/2000 - 11/30/2005
NIH/NIDA
Tri Ethnic Center for Prevention Research
The major goal of this project is to further the understanding of substance use and other problem
behaviors among Mexican-American and Native-American youth.
Role: Project Director
R01 DA15936-01 Edwards (PI)
9/30/2002 - 6/30/2007
NIH/NIDA
Inhalant Use Among Rural Children: A Multicultural Study
The major goal of this project is utilize multiple methodologies in multiple cultures for developing a
better understanding of individual risk and protective factors as well as community, cultural and family
norms
related to inhalant use among young children.
Role: Co-PI
Completed:
2002-TY-FX-K001 Thurman (PI)
3/1/2002 - 2/28/2005
US Department of Justice: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
A Longitudinal Study of Native Youth Risk for Delinquency Using the Community Readiness Model
The goal of this two year feasibility study is to develop and test methods that will produce a successful,
culturally sensitive, longitudinal study of risk, protective and resilience factors related to delinquency
among Indian youth.
Role: Co-PI
R21 DA14173 Swaim (PI)
9/30/2000-08/31/2004
NIH/NIDA
Using Media to Prevent Violence Among Rural Youth
The major goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of mass media campaigns to reduce violence
among rural youth.
Role: Senior Research Scientist