Current Research Projects
Religious and Psychological Well-Being: An interdisciplinary collaboration funded by Metanexus Institute, through the Templeton Research Lectures for the Constructive Engagement of Science & Religion grant program.
Clinical Outcomes Project: Developing ways to monitor clinical outcomes for psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Clergy and Clinician Interface Project: supported by a grant of the Boston University’s Center for Practical Theology.
Program Evaluation for Diversity Training
Program Evaluation for Psychotherapy Training
Black Church Outreach Project – This research project seeks to evaluate present knowledge base and experience of The Black Ministerial Alliance of Boston with respect to counseling of church members and mental illness. The results of this research study will inform the design and implementation of training sessions for Black Pastors and Church leaders to increase their knowledge of mental illness and the contemporary best practice treatment options.
The Relationship Between Patient Object Relations and the Therapeutic Alliance in a Naturalistic Psychotherapy Sample: Studies of the relationship between object relations, which are mental representations of self and others, and the therapeutic alliance.