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  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Clara E. Hill is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a specialized focus on clinical psychology and social psychology. Additional subfields associated with their research include applied psychology, health, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including psychotherapy techniques and applications, counseling practices and supervision, attachment and relationship dynamics, counseling, therapy, and family dynamics, personality disorders and psychopathology, transactional analysis in psychotherapy, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Clara E. Hill has contributed to numerous publications. Recent papers include:

  • "Can a computer detect interpersonal skills? Using machine learning to scale up the Facilitative Interpersonal Skills task" (2020), Psychotherapy Research
  • "Cultural humility, working alliance, and Outcome Rating Scale in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Between-therapist, within-therapist, and within-client effects." (2021), Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • "Feeling offended by clients: The experiences of doctoral student therapists." (2020), Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • "Psychotherapist advice, suggestions, recommendations: A research review." (2023), Psychotherapy
  • "Solicited and Unsolicited Therapist Advice in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Is it Advised?" (2020), Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hill include:

  • Dennis M. Kivlighan
  • Sarah Knox
  • Judith A. Gerstenblith
  • Mira An
  • Justin W. Hillman

Work by Clara E. Hill has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Counseling Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Counselling Psychology Quarterly
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Hill has also authored at least one book, notably published by the American Psychological Association: Essentials of Consensual Qualitative Research (2021).

An award received by Clara E. Hill is the Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), granted in 1984.

Best Publications

  • A Guide to Conducting Consensual Qualitative Research

    Clara E. Hill;Barbara J. Thompson;Elizabeth Nutt Williams

  • Consensual Qualitative Research: An Update

    Clara E. Hill;Sarah Knox;Barbara J. Thompson;Elizabeth Nutt Williams

  • The current state of empathy research

    Changming Duan;Clara E. Hill

  • Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action

    Clara E. Hill

  • Consensual qualitative research: A practical resource for investigating social science phenomena.

    Clara E. Hill

  • Nature, extent, and importance of what psychotherapy trainees do not disclose to their supervisors.

    Nicholas Ladany;Clara E. Hill;Maureen M. Corbett;Elizabeth A. Nutt

  • Assessing psychotherapy outcomes and processes.

    Michael J. Lambert;Clara E. Hill

  • A comparison of six measures of working alliance.

    Victoria Tichenor;Clara E. Hill

  • Development and Validation of the Counselor Activity Self-Efficacy Scales

    Robert W. Lent;Clara E. Hill;Mary Ann Hoffman

  • Client Retrospective Recall of Resolved and Unresolved Misunderstanding Events.

    Renee H. Rhodes;Clara E. Hill;Barbara J. Thompson;Robert Elliott

  • Effects of Therapist Response Modes in Brief Psychotherapy.

    Clara E. Hill;Janet E. Helms;Victoria Tichenor;Sharon B. Spiegel

  • Training Implications of Harmful Effects of Psychological Treatments

    Louis G. Castonguay;James F. Boswell;Michael J. Constantino;Marvin R. Goldfried

  • Helping skills: Facilitating exploration, insight, and action, 4th ed.

    Clara E. Hill

  • Therapist self-disclosure: research-based suggestions for practitioners.

    Sarah Knox;Clara E. Hill

  • Empirically supported therapy relationships: Conclusions and recommendations fo the Division 29 Task Force.

    Steven J. Ackerman;Lorna Smith Benjamin;Larry E. Beutler;Charles J. Gelso

  • A qualitative analysis of client perceptions of the effects of helpful therapist self-disclosure in long-term therapy.

    Sarah Knox;Shirley A. Hess;David A. Petersen;Clara E. Hill

  • Therapist Perspectives on Countertransference: Qualitative Data in Search of a Theory.

    Jeffrey A. Hayes;Janet E. McCracken;Mary K. McClanahan;Clara E. Hill

  • List of Therapist Intentions Illustrated in a Case Study and with Therapists of Varying Theoretical Orientations.

    Clara E. Hill;Kevin E. O'Grady

  • Beneath the surface of long-term therapy: Therapist and client report of their own and each other's covert processes.

    Clara E. Hill;Barbara J. Thompson;Mary C. Cogar;Daniel W. Denman

  • Development of a counselor verbal response category.

    Clara E. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Knox
Sarah Knox Marquette University
Dennis M. Kivlighan
Dennis M. Kivlighan University of Maryland, College Park
Charles J. Gelso
Charles J. Gelso University of Maryland, College Park
Aaron B. Rochlen
Aaron B. Rochlen The University of Texas at Austin
Louis G. Castonguay
Louis G. Castonguay Pennsylvania State University
Nicholas Ladany
Nicholas Ladany Lehigh University
Jochen M. Schneider
Jochen M. Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Reina H. Maruyama
Reina H. Maruyama Yale University

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