Chair and Professor

Office: Room 315a, Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-6068
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email:  smeeks@louisville.edu

Lab location: Life Sciences Building
Lab phone: (502) 852-5950
Lab website: Aging and Mental Health Lab
 

Education

Ph.D. Catholic University of America, 1985

Research Interest

• Mental health in late life, especially depression and other disorders in long-term care settings

Selected Publications

• Meeks, S., Teri, L., Van Haitsma, K., & Looney, S.W. (2006).  Increasing pleasant events in the nursing home:  Collaborative behavioral treatment for depression.  Clinical Case Studies, 5, 287-304. 
• Meeks, S., Moore, N.G., & Edwards, J.F. (2006).  Art, wellness, and innovation:  Heads Up Kentucky! puts psychology’s contribution to healthy living in the public eye.  Professional Psychology:  Science and Practice, 37, 467-471. 
• *Burton, E.J., *Chaneb, B.J., & Meeks, S. (2007).  Factors related to coping with severe mental illness in the latter half of life.  Clinical Gerontologist, 30, 79-91.
• Meeks, S., *Young, C. M., & Looney, S.W.  (2007). Activity participation and affect among nursing home residents: Support for a behavioral model of depression.  Aging and Mental Health, 11, 751-760.
• Meeks, S., Looney, S.W., Van Haitsma, K., & Teri, L. (2008).  BE-ACTIV:  a staff-assisted, behavioral intervention for depression in nursing homes.  The Gerontologist, 48, 105-114.
• Meeks, S., Sublett, R.L., *Kostiwa, I.M., *Rodgers, J.R., & Haddix, D.  (2008)  Treating depression in the prison nursing home:  Demonstrating research-to-practice translation.  Clinical Case Studies, 7, 555-574.
• *Kostiwa, I.M., & Meeks, S.  (2009).  Nursing home as work environment: The relation between psychological empowerment, perceived service quality, and job satisfaction.  Clinical Gerontologist, 32, 276-292.
• Meeks, S., *Shah, S., & *Ramsey, S. (2009).  The Pleasant Events Scale – Nursing Home version:  A useful tool for behavioral interventions in long-term care.  Aging and Mental Health, 13, 445-455.
• *Rodgers, J.R., & Meeks, S.  (2009).  The home and personal hygiene scale:  A brief scale for rating functioning in severe mental illness.  Clinical Gerontologist. 
• Preminger, J., & Meeks, S.  (In Press).  The influence of mood on the perception of hearing-loss related quality of life in people with hearing loss and their significant others.  International Journal of Audiology.
• Preminger, J., & Meeks, S. (In Press).  An evaluation of an audiologic rehabilitation program for spouses of people with hearing loss.  Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 
• Meeks, S., & Looney, S.W. (In Press).  Depressed nursing home residents’ activity participation and positive affect as a function of staff positive engagement. Behavior Therapy. 

• Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate)
• Introduction to Clinical Assessment (graduate)
• Mental Health and Aging (graduate and undergraduate)