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Robert Coursey, Ph.D.
Professor Clinical
E-mail: rcoursey@psyc.umd.edu
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Research and Teaching Interests:
Dr. Coursey's primary academic, research, and clinical interests are in the area of severe mental illness: staff competencies needed for quality service delivery, innovative services, competencies that service recipients need for recovery. Dr. Coursey is currently focused on applying psychological theories to people with serious mental illness. Examples include client competency, coping, gender, recovery, life satisfaction, explanatory styles, etc. In the past ten years, his research has focused on four areas:
(1) The human dimensions of people with schizophrenia (e.g., consumers' attitudes toward their treatment, life satisfaction, forced treatment, self-esteem, and spirituality).
(2) Psychosocial interventions (e.g., psychotherapy, biofeedback, family education, integration of medication and psychosocial services).
(3) Consumer competencies needed to recover from schizophrenia (e.g., coping strategies, attitudes, mentors, personality characteristics, social support, etc.).
(4) Competencies of service providers that effectively help the recovery of people with schizophrenia.