| College/University Affiliation | Department | Location | Degree Program | Department(s) that support psychology of religion research or clinical training? | Faculty Contacts | School or department's website link (if available)? | Any additional information or comments? | Column1 |
| Biola University | Rosemead School of Psychology | La Mirada, CA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Peter Hill, PhD Todd Hall, PhD Liz Hall, PhD Ward Davis, PsyD. All faculty. The following have specialities : Jason Brunt, Clark Campbell, Ward Davis, Keith Edwards, Stacy Eltiti, Liz Hall, Todd Hall, John Williams, and Bill Worden. Jenny Pak, | www.rosemead.edu | Our doctoral program in clinical psychology offers two possible doctoral degrees, a Psy.D. degree (practitioner-scholar training model) and a Ph.D. degree (scholar-practitioner training model). This is an explicitly Christian program, but much of the work conducted in psych of religion in nature. All support integration of Christian faith with psychology. Several faculty have research interests that would generally fall under psychology of religion. | |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Chris Schlauch George Stavros | www.bu.edu/danielsen | |||
| Boston University | Boston, MA | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Chris Schlauch George Stavros | www.bu.edu/danielsen | Part of School of Education | ||
| Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green, Ohio | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Ken Pargament, Annette Mahoney. Tamara Brown - Univ of Kentucky | http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/psych/ | Drs. Pargament and Mahoney offer research opportunities as well as courses in psychology of religion and spirituality. They also sponsor a research group called SPiRiT (Spirituality and Psychology Research Team), designed to encourage the use of psychological methods to examine the helpful and harmful roles of religion and spirituality in people's lives. Mahoney specializes in the intersection of religion/spirituality and family life. Pargament has written/edited influential books on the topics of Religion and Coping, Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy, and Forgiveness. Coursework in psychology of religion and spiritually-integrated psychotherapy.This is the absolute best program for Psychology of Religion, for those who want an equal emphasis on clinical and research training. They have pre-eminent Psych of Religion research scholars there, but they also offer graduate clinical seminars in this area. | ||
| Bowling Green State University | Bowling Green, Ohio | Ph.D | Developmental Psychology | Annette Mahoney. Also occasionally other faculty | http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/psych/ | |||
| Brigham Young University | Provo, Utah | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | P. Scott Richards Timothy B. Smith Kristin L. Hansen Marleen Williams, Ph.D. | Virtually all of the faculty in the program are supportive of psychology of religion research, even though not all of them are focused on this in their own research agenda. | |||
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Julie Exline | This is not a psychology of religion program, but I am seeking clinical psychology students who have research interests in the psychology of religion and spirituality. | |||
| Drew Graduate School | Madison, NJ | Ph.D | Arthur Pressley, Ph.D. (psychologist) | This program is more psychology and religion, and is closely connected to graduate studies in religion. It has a liberal arts flavor that allows students to follow their interests and do unique integrations in their research. | ||||
| Fordham University | Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester NY | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | John Cecero, S.J., PhD Mary Procidano, PhD Kathy Schiaffino, PhD | There is a specialization in Spirituality & Psychotherapy at Fordham | |||
| Fuller Theological Seminar School of Psychology | Pasadena, CA | Ph.D | nearly all | |||||
| Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Nathaniel Wade, Norman Scott | http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/index.php?id=22 | The department supports an undergraduate course in psych of religion but no graduate course or seminar. Drs. Wade and Scott (to a lesser degree) have supported student research in psych of religion-related topics and Dr. Wade does much of his own research in that area. Upon request, Dr. Wei will include an hour on spirituality and religion as part of the muticultural counseling seminar. | ||
| Loyola University Maryland | Columbia, MD | Ph.D | Dr. Ralph L. Piedmont Dr. Sharon E. Cheston Dr. K. Elizabeth Oakes Dr. Kari A. O'Grady Dr. Gina M. Magyar-Russell Dr. Thomas E. Rodgerson Dr. Joseph A. Stewart-Sicking Dr. Robert J. Wicks, Kayliz Oakes Sharon Cheston | http://www.loyola.edu/pastoralcounseling | Loyola University Maryland's Pastoral Counseling Department is a co-sponsor (along with Division 36) of the annual Mid Year Conference on Religion and Spirituality. Program is in Pastoral Counseling, offer an MS and PhD degree. We are interested in integrating psychology and spirituality into a clinical treatment model. | |||
| Pacifica Graduate Institute | Carpinteria, CA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Lionel Corbett, Ph.D. and many others | This is a school that focuses on depth psychology originating with Freud and Jung and proceeding through post-Freudian and post-Jungian thinkers. Jung was open to study of mythology and religion. Mythologist Joseph Campbell left his library to this school. I went there and really loved it. They welcomed my doing a dissertation comparing Jung's individuation construct with the Kundalini Yoga tradition. | |||
| Regent University | Virginia Beach, VA | Ph.D | Counseling Education | Hathaway is in charge of the program and teaches courses on integrating psychology and religion. | ||||
| Saybrook University | San Francisco, CA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Eugene Taylor, PhD Louis Hoffman, PhD Edward Hoffman, PhD Stanley Krippner, PhD Jeanne Achterberg, PhD | Programs teaches spirituality as a generic dimension of personality, not as defined denominationally; Programs define psychology as a person-centered science | |||
| Saybrook University | San Francisco, CA | Ph.D | Psychology | Eugene Taylor, PhD Louis Hoffman, PhD Edward Hoffman, PhD Stanley Krippner, PhD Jeanne Achterberg, PhD | Programs teaches spirituality as a generic dimension of personality, not as defined denominationally; Programs define psychology as a person-centered science. Concentrations available. | |||
| Seattle Pacific University | Seattle, WA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | John Thoburn, Ph.D.; Marcia Webb, Ph.D. | spu.edu | |||
| Seton Hall University | South Orange, NJ | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Pamela Foley, PhD, ABPP Lewis Schlosser, PhD, ABPP | I am an alumnus of Seton Hall University and my advisor was Dr. Foley. Both my second year research project and my dissertation included religious and spiritual aspects of psychology | |||
| St Louis University | St. Louis, Missouri | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Paul Handel | ALso, might explore links with the medical center there. In a past life I had an RA job with the Institute for Psychology and Religion. | |||
| Texas Tech University | Department of Psychology | Lubbock, TX | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Stephen Cook (contact person: s.cook@ttu.edu), Erin Hardin, Sheila Garos | http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/ | all in counseling psychology | |
| Texas Tech University | Department of Psychology | Lubbock, TX | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Stephen Cook (contact person: s.cook@ttu.edu), Erin Hardin, Sheila Garos | http://www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/ | ||
| University of Cambridge | Cambridge, England | Ph.D | Social Psychology | Nicholas J. S. Gibson Sara B. Savage Fraser N. Watts | The "other" degree is the M.Phil. in Social and Developmental Psychology. See http://www.sdp.cam.ac.uk/ | |||
| University of Cambridge, UK - | The Psychology and Religion Research Group | Cambridge, England | Ph.D | Social Psychology | Dr Nicholas J.S. Gibson Dr Fraser N. Watts | www.prrg.org.uk | The PRRG offers M.Phil and Ph.D. studies in psychology of religion, covering social psychology, social cognition, as well as more applied areas like organizational behaviour, as well as theoretical research in theology/psychology integration, history of psychology and religion, etc. The PRRG straddles both Faculties of Divinity and the Dept of Social and Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, & International Studies. | |
| University of Connecticut | Mansfield, CT | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Crystal Park, Ph.D. | http://www.psychology.uconn.edu/ | The department is welcoming to research in the psychology of religion and spirituality. | ||
| University of Connecticut | Mansfield, CT | Ph.D | Health Psychology | Crystal L. Park, Ph.D. | The department is welcoming to research in the psychology of religion and spirituality. | |||
| University of Denver | Denver, CA | Ph.D | Social Psychology | Daniel N. McIntosh | http://www.du.edu/psychology/graduate/graduate.htm | |||
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Saba Ali, Elizabeth Altmaier | http://www.education.uiowa.edu/counspsy | |||
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Charles Carlson, Ph.D. Tamara Brown, Ph.D. | ||||
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Jody Newman, Ph.D. | http://www.ou.edu/content/education/departments/edpy/programs/counseling-psychology.html | |||
| University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | William Hoyt, Ph.D. | There have been other faculty there in the past who have retired or moved to another university. | |||
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | Ph.D | Clinical Psychology | Sandra Gramling, Bruce Rybarczyk | There is no "program" in psychology of religion. Research depends on match with faculty. | |||
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | Ph.D | Developmental Psychology | Wendy Kliewer | ||||
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | Ph.D | Counseling Psychology | Everett Worthington, Suzanne Mazzeo, Micah McCreary, |