Dr. Greg Smith is a professor of psychology at Newman University. He is a clinical psychologist, with a degree from Ohio State University. His practice centers on mindfulness and ACT based interventions with individuals and couples, and he has worked with mental health professionals and clergy. He has been involved in mindfulness training formally since 1987, and taught mindfulness based stress reduction at the Durham VAMC in 1993-94. Now his major interests are in positive psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and transpersonal psychology and the psychology of religion. He came to Kansas in 1994, thinking he would only stay for a few years, but life and family had other plans.
Vanderbilt University
BS in Psychology (1987)
MA (1990)
Ohio State University
PhD in Clinical Psychology (1996)
Cacioppo, J.T., Uchino, B.L., Crites, S.L., Snydersmith, M.A., Smith, G., Berntson, G.G. & Lang, P.J. (1992). The relationship between facial expressiveness and sympathetic activation in emotion: a critical review, with emphasis on modeling underlying mechanisms and individual differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 110-128.
Dunn, R.L., Schwebel, A.I., McIver, S.D., & Smith, G.B. (1992). Lay persons’ beliefs about the etiology and treatment of chronic mental illness. Unpublished manuscript.
McIver, S.D., Schwebel, A.I., Smith, G.B., Dunn, R.L. & Zwissler, M.M. (1994). Views of hospitalized severe mentally disabled (SMD) patients. New Research in Mental Health. Columbus, OH: Ohio Department of Mental Health. Smith, G. (1997, February). Mind Matters: delivering an interdisciplinary writing course. Presented at the 3rd National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Charleston, SC.
Smith, G.B. (2018, October). Social connections: self-care and well-being at work. Presentation for Kansas Association of School Psychologists annual conference.
Smith, G.B. & Rosenberger, P.H. (1990, May). The effects of self-focused attention on the induction of affect in depressed college students: facilitation or inhibition? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Smith, G.B. & Schwebel, A.I. (1995). Using a cognitive behavioral family model in conjunction with systems and behavioral family therapy models. American Journal of Family Therapy, 23, 203-212.
Smith, G.B., Schwebel, A.I., Dunn, R.L., & McIver, S.D. (1993). The role of psychologists in the treatment, management, and prevention of chronic mental illness. American Psychologist, 48, 966-971.