Christina M. Sellers

Christina M. Sellers is a licensed clinical social worker whose practice experience includes delivering brief motivational interviewing interventions for suicidal adolescents with co-occurring substance use. Dr. Sellers has expertise in clinical interventions with at-risk youth and training in intervention research and implementation science. Her research is at the intersection of substance use and suicide. The goal of her program of research is to develop and test interventions for substance use and suicide among adolescents in a variety of different settings and to develop and test pedagogical approaches to training social workers in suicide prevention skills.

Education

• PhD, Boston College School of Social Work (2018)

License/Certifications

• LCSW

Courses

SW411 Human Behavior in the Social Environment
SW441 Social Work Research
SW464 Understanding Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
SW509 Evaluation in Social Work Practice
SW624 Intervention Research

Select Publications

Sellers, C. M., & O’Brien, K. (2024). A Call to Prioritize Integrated Suicide Interventions in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 24(1), 88-95.

Rosales, R., Sellers, C. M., Santos, B., Lee, C., O’Brien, K. H., & Colby, S. (2023). Examining Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association of Victimization and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors with Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minority Youth. LGBT Health, 10(2), 109-120. 

Sellers, C. M., Díaz-Valdés Iriarte, A., Porter, A., Glenn, C., Miller, A., Wyman Battalen, A., & O’Brien, K. H. (2021). Nonsuicidal self-injury, suicide planning, and suicide attempts among high-risk adolescents prior to psychiatric hospitalization. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(11), 1503-1511.

Halmo, R. S.*, Sellers, C. M., Collin, C. R., Chinamasa, G.*, & Putney, J. (2021). Changes in social work students’ attitudes and knowledge following opioid overdose training. Substance Abuse, 43(1), 289–293.

Sellers, C. M., Díaz-Valdés Iriarte, A., Oliver, M.*, Simon, K., & O’Brien, K. H. (2021). The relationship between alcohol and cannabis use with nonsuicidal self-injury among adolescent inpatients: Examining the 90 days prior to psychiatric hospitalization. Addictive Behaviors, 114, 106759.

Sellers, C. M., Díaz-Valdés Iriarte, A., Wyman Battalen, A., & O’Brien, K. H. (2019). Alcohol and marijuana use as daily predictors of suicide ideation and attempts among adolescents prior to psychiatric hospitalization. Psychiatry Research, 273, 672-677.

Sellers, C. M., McRoy, R., & O’Brien, K. H. (2019). Substance use and suicidal ideation among child welfare involved adolescents: A longitudinal examination. Addictive Behaviors, 93, 39-45.

O’Brien, K. H., Wyman Battalen, A., Sellers, C. M., Spirito, A., Yen, S., Maneta, E., Ryan, C. A., & Braciszewski, J. M. (2019). An mHealth approach to extend a brief intervention for adolescent alcohol use and suicidal behavior: Qualitative analyses of adolescent and parent feedback. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 37(4), 255-285.