Christopher McCarthy

Terminal Degree

Ph. D.         August 1995      Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

M.A.           May 1990           Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 

B.A.            May 1988           University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Representative Publications

Westheimer, J., Capello, J., McCarthy, C. J., & Denny, N.  (in press). Employing a group medical intervention for hypertensive male veterans: An exploratory analysis.  The Journal for Specialists in Group Work. 

McCarthy, C., Lambert, R., O’Donnell, M. & Melendres, L. (2009). The relation of elementary teachers’ experience, stress, and coping resources to burnout symptoms. The Elementary School Journal, 109, 1-19.

McCarthy, C. J., & Archer, Jr., J. A. (2008). Cognitive Therapy. In Tinsley, H. E. A., & Lease, S. H. (Volume Editors) (2008).  Encyclopedia of Counseling: Volume 2. Personal and Emotional Counseling (pp. 508-511). Leong, F.T. L. (Editor-in-Chief). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Archer, J., Jr., & McCarthy, C. J.  (2006).  Counseling theories: Contemporary applications and approaches.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.   

Lambert, R. G., & McCarthy, C. J. (Eds.).  (2006).  Understanding teacher stress in an era of accountability.  (Vol. III).  Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing, Inc. 

Recent Awards

• President’s Award, 2007-2008, Association for Specialists in Group Work
• Dean’s Fellow, Spring, 2007, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin

Boards, Committees and Associations

• Associate Editor, Journal for Specialists in Group Work, November, 2005 – July, 2008. 
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Stress Management. 
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Counseling and Development,
• Contributing Editor, The Journal of Individual Psychology.
• Chair, Stress and Coping in Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, April 2006 – present

Current Research Projects and Grants

My research group includes graduate students in the counseling program at the University of Texas at Austin. Most are doctoral students in the Counseling Psychology program, but graduate students in other areas of study are welcome to contact me if interested. We are also very open to including undergraduate students who might be interested in our research.

We have a number of current projects which are ongoing. My primary interest at this point is better understanding the stress that educators and counselors face in their daily work. Along with colleagues at UT and other institutions, I have completed several international data collections of school teachers ranging from preschool to high school as well as counselors in the state of Texas. Our primary goal is to better understand teacher and counselor perceptions of daily demands and the resources they have to meet challenges in their environment.

Graduate students working with me have developed research projects in a number of different areas that fall within the scope of reserch on stress and coping. These projects includes better understanding parental attachment as a coping resource, assessing the role of religion and spirituality in wellness, identification of wellness factors in counselor trainees, factors which make athletes vulnerable to stress, and understanding risk factors for children and adolescents.

Research Interests and Expertise

(a) wellness and health psychology, (b) identification of psychological resources that can help prevent stress, and (c) extending basic research on stress and coping to educational settings, particularly in understanding the stress that  educators and counselors experience.

Full Vita (download)

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/vitae/edp/McCarthyCV.pdf