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Home | Faculty | Brian Houston Brian HoustonJ. Brian Houston, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri and is Program Director for the Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, a Category II center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Houston's research focuses on communication at all phases of disasters and on the mental health effects and political consequences of community crises. Recent and current research projects have examined the impact of media coverage of terrorism on children and adults, the role of new media during disasters, and the capacity for using information communication technologies to increase community resilience. These projects are located at the intersections of the literatures addressing disasters, communication, media, public health, mental health, and political socialization. Houston's work has been supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Frequently Taught Courses Research interests: Strategic communication, public opinion, media effects, and information processing particularly in contexts of politics, crisis, and public health Selected recent publications: Houston, J.B. (In press). Public disaster mental/behavioral health communication: Intervention across disaster phases. Journal of Emergency Management . Houston, J.B., Pfefferbaum, B., Sherman, M.D., Melson, A.G., & Brand, M.W. (In press). Family communication across the military deployment experience: Child and spouse report of communication frequency and quality, and associated emotions, behaviors, and reactions. Journal of Loss and Trauma . Houston, J.B., Hansen, G., & Nisbett, G.S. (2011). Influence of user comments on perceptions of media bias and third-person effect in online news. Electronic News, 5, 79-92. doi: 10.1177/1931243111407618 Pfefferbaum, B., Houston, J.B. , Reyes, G., Steinberg, A.M., Pynoos, R.S., Fairbank, J.A., Brymer, M.J., & Maida, C.A. (2010). Building and sustaining national capacity for child and family disaster mental health research. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 41, 26-33. Pfefferbaum, B., Houston, J.B., Sherman, M.D., & Melson, A.G. (2011). Children of National Guard troops deployed in the Global War on Terrorism. Journal of Trauma and Loss, 16, 291-305. doi: 10.1080/15325024.2010.519293 Houston, J.B. (2009). Media coverage of terrorism and traumatic stress: A meta-analytic assessment. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 86, 844-861 . Houston, J.B., Pfefferbaum, B., Sherman, M.D., Melson, A.G., Jeon-Slaughter, H., Brand, M.W., & Jarman, Y. (2009). Children of deployed National Guard soldiers: Perceptions of parental deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Psychiatric Annals, 39, 805-811. Houston, J.B., Pfefferbaum, B., & Reyes, G. (2008). Experiencing disasters indirectly: How traditional and new media disaster coverage impacts youth. The Prevention Researcher, 15, 14-17. Houston, J.B., Wen-yu, C., & Ragan, S. (2008). Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak. In J. Powers & X. Xiaosui (Eds.), The social construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis (pp. 203-221) . Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamims. Pfau, M., Houston, J.B., & Semmler, S. (2007). Mediating the vote: The changing media landscape in presidential campaigns. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. |
 Brian Houston Assistant Professor education: University of Oklahoma, Ph.D., 2007 |
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