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Overview

Joseph M. Currier is affiliated with the University of South Alabama in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within psychology and social sciences, with a distinct focus on the intersections of religion, spirituality, and mental health.

The main fields of study for Joseph M. Currier include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions

Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Joseph M. Currier has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
  • Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health

Their recent research papers include:

  • Moral injury and ICD-11 complex PTSD (CPTSD) symptoms among treatment-seeking veterans in the United Kingdom, 2021, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Enhancing competencies for the ethical integration of religion and spirituality in psychological services, 2022, Psychological Services
  • Understanding Preferences for Addressing Spirituality Among Adults Seeking Outpatient Mental Health Care, 2020, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Other significant related papers in the broader research network include:

  • Moral injury in civilians: associations with trauma exposure, PTSD, and suicide behavior, 2021, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Gratitude and patience moderate meaning struggles and suicidal risk in a cross-sectional study of inpatients at a Christian psychiatric hospital, 2021, Journal of Personality

Joseph M. Currier frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Michelle Pearce
  • Cassandra Vieten
  • Jesse Fox
  • Esther Kim
  • Ryon C. McDermott

Best Publications

  • Sense-making, grief, and the experience of violent loss: toward a mediational model.

    Joseph M. Currier;Jason M. Holland;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • The Effectiveness of Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Bereaved Persons: A Comprehensive Quantitative Review.

    Joseph M. Currier;Robert A. Neimeyer;Jeffrey S. Berman

  • Predictors of grief following the death of one's child: the contribution of finding meaning.

    Nancy J. Keesee;Joseph M. Currier;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military Version

    Joseph M. Currier;Jason M. Holland;Kent Drescher;David Foy

  • Meaning Reconstruction in the First Two Years of Bereavement: The Role of Sense-Making and Benefit-Finding

    Jason M. Holland;Joseph M. Currier;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • Moral Injury, Meaning Making, and Mental Health in Returning Veterans

    Joseph M. Currier;Jason M. Holland;Jesse Malott

  • Sense and significance: a mixed methods examination of meaning making after the loss of one's child

    Wendy G. Lichtenthal;Joseph M. Currier;Robert A. Neimeyer;Nancy J. Keesee

  • The effectiveness of bereavement interventions with children: a meta-analytic review of controlled outcome research.

    Joseph M Currier;Jason M Holland;Robert A Neimeyer

  • The Role of Moral Emotions in Military Trauma: Implications for the Study and Treatment of Moral Injury

    Jacob K. Farnsworth;Kent D. Drescher;Jason A. Nieuwsma;Robyn B. Walser

  • The Integration of Stressful Life Experiences Scale (ISLES): Development and Initial Validation of a New Measure

    Jason M. Holland;Joseph M. Currier;Rachel A. Coleman;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • Grief Therapy Evidence of Efficacy and Emerging Directions

    Robert A. Neimeyer;Joseph M. Currier

  • Bereavement, religion, and posttraumatic growth: A matched control group investigation.

    Joseph M. Currier;Jesse Mallot;Tiffany E. Martinez;Charlotte Sandy

  • Bereavement following violent death: An assault on life and meaning.

    Joseph M. Currier;Jason M. Holland;Rachel A. Coleman;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • CAUSE OF DEATH AND THE QUEST FOR MEANING AFTER THE LOSS OF A CHILD

    Wendy G. Lichtenthal;Robert A. Neimeyer;Joseph M. Currier;Kailey Roberts

  • Brief Report: Children's Response to Serious Illness: Perceptions of Benefit and Burden in a Pediatric Cancer Population

    Joseph M Currier;Susan Hermes;Sean Phipps

  • Development and evaluation of the Expressions of Moral Injury Scale—Military Version

    Joseph M. Currier;Jacob K. Farnsworth;Kent D. Drescher;Ryon C. McDermott

  • Spirituality Factors in the Prediction of Outcomes of PTSD Treatment for U.S. Military Veterans

    Joseph M. Currier;Jason M. Holland;Kent D. Drescher

  • Spiritually integrated care for PTSD: A randomized controlled trial of "Building Spiritual Strength".

    J. Irene Harris;Timothy Usset;Cory Voecks;Paul Thuras

  • Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance in Coping with Bereavement: Two Studies

    Adrienne M. Meier;Drew R. Carr;Joseph M. Currier;Robert A. Neimeyer

  • Spirituality, Forgiveness, and Quality of Life: Testing a Mediational Model with Military Veterans with PTSD

    Joseph M. Currier;Kent D. Drescher;Jason M. Holland;Ross Lisman

  • The impact of counselor self-disclosure on clients: a meta-analytic review of experimental and quasi-experimental research.

    Jennifer R. Henretty;Joseph M. Currier;Jeffrey S. Berman;Heidi M. Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason M. Holland
Jason M. Holland University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Robert A. Neimeyer
Robert A. Neimeyer University of Memphis
Joshua D. Foster
Joshua D. Foster University of South Alabama
David W. Foy
David W. Foy Pepperdine University
Crystal L. Park
Crystal L. Park University of Connecticut
Christopher R. Erbes
Christopher R. Erbes University of Minnesota
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson Stanford University School of Medicine
Sean Phipps
Sean Phipps St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Wilfred R. Pigeon
Wilfred R. Pigeon University of Rochester Medical Center
Maru Barrera
Maru Barrera University of Toronto

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