Department of Psychology

Clara Hill, Ph.D. Professor Counseling E-mail: hill@psyc.umd.edu Office: 2147G BPS Phone: 301-405-5791 Laboratory Room: 2140D BPS Phone: 301-405-5820

Research and Teaching Interests:

Clara E. Hill (Professor), received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1974, and has been in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland since then. Current areas of interest are the identification and training of counseling skills, process and outcome studies of psychotherapy, working with dreams, and qualitative research. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maryland. She was the editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology (1993-1999), is currently the North American editor of Psycotherapy Research, she is a past president of both the North American and International Society for Psychotherapy Research. She has written seven books: Therapist Techniques and client outcomes; Eight cases of brief Psychotherapy (Sage, 1989), Working with dreams in psychotherapy (Guilford, 1996), and Helping Skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action (APA, 1999),  Helping Skills:  The empirical foundation (APA, 2001), Dreamwork in therapy: Facilitating exploration, insight and action (APA, 2003), Helping Skills: Facilitating, exploration, insight, and action, 2nd Edition(APA, 2004), and Insight in Psychotherapy (with L.G. Castonguay, APA 2006),  and over 170 journal articles and book chapters.  She was awarded the Leona Tyler Award from Division 17 of APA (2001), the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Division 29 of APA (2003), and The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Section on Counseling and Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research of Division 17 of APA (2005).