Featured Faculty: Dr. Clara E. Hill
November 2005

Clara E. Hill earned her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Psychology Program at the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, where she is currently a Professor and Co-Director of the Counseling Psychology Program.

She has been the President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and the winner of the Leona Tyler Award from Division 17 of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 of APA, and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research of Division 17 of APA. She is currently the North American Editor of Psychotherapy Research, the journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Her major research interests are dream work, psychotherapy process and outcome, training novice therapists in helping skills, and qualitative research.

She has published 140 journal articles, 31 chapters in books, and 7 books: Therapist techniques and client outcomes: Eight cases of brief psychotherapy (Sage, 1989), Working with dreams in psychotherapy (Guilford, 1996), Helping skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action (with Karen O'Brien; APA, 1999), Helping skills: The empirical foundation (APA, 2001), Dream work in therapy: facilitating exploration, insight, and action (APA, 2004), Helping skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action, 2nd ed. (APA, 1999), and Insight in psychotherapy (with Louis Castonguay, APA, 2006).

 

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