Stephanie Jarvi Steele

Stephanie Jarvi Steele ’07, returned to Smith and joined the psychology department in 2022. Steele directs the Behavioral Assessment of Self-Injury Lab (BASIL), which aims to further elucidate risk factors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. Current BASIL projects include exploration of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among parents and the role of self-disgust in NSSI. She regularly teaches Abnormal Psychology, Research Methods and a seminar on high-risk behaviors in psychopathology. 

Steele is a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts; she earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Suffolk University in Boston and completed her predoctoral clinical internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Steele then completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Boston University in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, where she worked on a large clinical trial exploring the efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy for the treatment of comorbid alcohol use and anxiety disorders. Steele taught at Williams College as a visiting assistant professor of psychology for three years before returning to Smith and the Northampton area with her wife and two young sons.

Recent Publications

(*) Indicates publications in which a student mentee was included as a co-author.

1. Jaffe, N., & Jarvi Steele, S. (2024). Therapists’ self-efficacy and experiences managing clinical risk in teletherapy: a mixed methods exploration. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2024.2311209
2. Jarvi Steele, S., Bjorgvinsson, T., & Swenson, L. P. (2023). Implicit assessment of non-suicidal self-injury: Group differences in temporal stability of the Self-Injury Implicit Association Test (SI-IAT). Archives of Suicide Research. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2023.2247042
3. Jarvi Steele, S., Jaffe, N.*, & Murray, G.* (2023). Social contagion of non-suicidal self-injury. In Lloyd-Richardson, E., Baetens, I., & J. Whitlock (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. Oxford University Press. (online edn, Oxford Academic, 16 August). 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197611272.013.42
4. Sauer-Zavala, S., Fournier, J., Jarvi Steele, S., Woods, B. K., Wang, M., Farchione, T. J., & Barlow, D. H. (2021). Does the Unified Protocol really treat neuroticism? Results from a randomized-controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 51(14), 2378-2387. https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0033291720000975 (First authorship is shared by Sauer-Zavala & Fournier)
5. Liu, R. T., Jarvi Steele, S., Hamilton, J. L., Do, Q. B. P., Furbish, K.*, Burke, T. A., Martinez, A., & Gerlus, N. (2020). Sleep and suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Clinical Psychology Review, 81, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101895
6. Jarvi Steele, S., Furbish, K.*, Bjorgvinsson, T., & Swenson, L. P. (2020). An exploratory mixed methods approach to implicit and explicit identification with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 69, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101594

7. Sauer-Zavala, S., Bentley, K. H., Jarvi Steele, S., Wilner Tirpak, J., Ametaj, A. A., Nauphal, M., Cardona, N., Wang, M., Farchione, T. J., & Barlow, D. H. (2020). Treating depressive disorders with the Unified Protocol: A preliminary randomized evaluation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 264, 438-445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.072