Gerald Koocher

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Gerald Paul Koocher (born March 13, 1947 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA) is an American psychologist .

Koocher received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Boston University in 1968. He received his masters (1970) and doctoral degrees (1972) in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. From 1971 to 2001, he worked his way up to head psychology at Boston's Children's Hospital and Judge Baker Children's Center, and taught as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School . Since June 2001 he has been Professor and Faculty Director of the School for Health Studies at Simmons College (Boston).

He is the only psychologist in the US to have completed five specialty courses on the American Board of Professional Psychology (clinical P., clinical child / adult P., family psychology and health psychology). He is the founder and publisher of the specialist journal "Ethics & Behavior" and an author.

In 2006, he replaced Nicholas Cummings as president of the American Psychological Association (APA). In this position he was noticed because, in contrast to the earlier position of the APA, he is not an absolute opponent of reorientation therapy . Koocher is free to choose the fully informed patient in the therapy that the therapist must support - whether it is sexual orientation or other behavior or an emotion. But he also stressed that this in no way implies that homosexuality is a mental disorder.

Fonts

  • Gerald P. Koocher (Ed.): Children's rights and the mental health professions . Wiley, New York 1976, ISBN 0-471-01736-1
  • Patricia Keith-Spiegel and Gerald P. Koocher: Ethics in Psychology. Professional standards and cases . Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ [u. a.] 1985, ISBN 0-8058-2128-7
  • Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel: Children, Ethics, & the Law. Professional issues and cases . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln [et. a.] 1990, ISBN 0-8032-4731-1
  • Michael C. Roberts, Gerald P. Koocher, Donald K. Routh, Diane J. Willis (Eds.): Readings in Pediatric Psychology . Plenum Press, New York [u. a.] 1993, ISBN 0-306-44423-2
  • Gerald P. Koocher: Whistleblowing And Scientific Misconduct. A Special Issue of Ethics & Behavior . Erlbaum, 1993, ISBN 0-8058-9986-3
  • Gerald P. Koocher: Ethics in Cyberspace . Erlbaum, 1996, ISBN 0-8058-9891-3
  • Gerald P. Koocher, John C. Norcross, and Sam S. Hill (Eds.): Psychologists' Desk Reference . Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-511186-9
  • Gerald P. Koocher (Ed.): Protection of Participants in Sensitive Social Research. A Special Issue of Ethics and Behavior . Erlbaum, 1998, ISBN 0-8058-9819-0
  • Gerald P. Koocher: The Science And Politics of Recovered Memories. A Special Issue of Ethics And Behavior . Erlbaum, 1998, ISBN 0-8058-9825-5
  • Steven N. Sparta and Gerald P. Koocher (Eds.): Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children And Adolescents . Oxford University Press, Oxford [u. a.] 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-514584-7
  • Kenneth S. Pope, Janet L. Sonne, Beverly Greene and Gerald P. Koocher: What therapists don't talk about and why. Understanding taboos that hurt us and our clients . American Psychological Assoc., Washington DC 2006, ISBN 978-1-59147-411-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.apa.org/releases/koocher2006.html
  2. ^ E-mail statement from Koocher (English).
  3. ↑ See Bulletin of NARTH 2006, Vol 14, No. 2, p 40. summarized in German:.. At dijg.de .
personal data
SURNAME Koocher, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koocher, Gerald Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA