The lab is broadly focused on counselling and psychotherapy research, particularly through a counselling psychology disciplinary lens and utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, depending on the research questions asked. The lab is primarily focused on the following broad areas at the present time:
- Disciplinary and professional issues in counselling psychology (both nationally and abroad) with a special emphasis on Canada and India
- Multicultural/cross-cultural/international counselling with an emphasis on (a) investigating counselling and psychotherapy under the frame of being Western cultural healing practices (based on Jerome Frank’s model of cultural healing and Bruce Wampold’s Contextual Model of psychotherapy), and (b) counselling/psychotherapy with Punjabi and Sikh individuals, Indo-Canadians, and individuals of Asian-Indian descent (this includes looking at integrating traditional healing practices into counselling/psychotherapy).
The lab also currently maintains a secondary interest in the following areas:
- Multicultural, cross-cultural and international counselling and psychotherapy, particularly related to race, ethnicity, and nationality.
- Counselling/psychotherapy with men (including the intersection of masculinity and counselling/psychotherapy)
- Political/ideological bias and diversity within counselling psychology
Please see “Join the Lab” for particular project ideas and more detailed areas of interest to the lab.
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“Great minds do not always think alike.” (Heterodox Academy)
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