Donald H. Baucom

Donald H. Baucom
Donald H. Baucom

Baucom addressing researchers
Born July 22, 1949 (1949-07-22) (age 62)
Residence United States
Nationality American Flag of the United States.svg
Fields Psychologist
Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (A.B.)(Ph.D.)
Known for Founding the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy

Donald H. Baucom, Ph.D.(born July 22, 1949) is a clinical psychology faculty member at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is recognized for founding the field of Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy[1] Baucom is also recognized as one of the top marital therapists and most prolific researchers in this field.[2] Currently, Baucom's National Cancer Institute funded study, CanThrive, has the largest observationally coded sample of any couples study to date.

Contents

Biography

Baucom lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he is the Richard Lee Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UNC.[3] He is a familiar face on campus, having received both his bachelor's degree and his Ph.D. from UNC. Baucom's son Brian is also a Clinical Psychologist. Brian works in southern California where he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.[4]

Research description

Baucom with fellow couples researchers, Brian Baucom (Center) and Andrew Christensen (Right)

For over thirty years, Donald H. Baucom has focused his research on the dynamics of intimate relationships and how various factors contribute to distress, as well as joy, in couples. As a strong proponent of the scientist-practitioner model he is committed to the development of empirically based effective interventions for partners in intimate relationships. In doing so, he has been a leader in the development of the theoretical, empirical, and clinical foundation of cognitive-behavioral therapy that is used for helping couples in distress. Baucom has spent his career observing the ways in which couples interact, and how these individual interaction styles can cause both distress and joy in relationships based on factors such as social support, health, and infidelity.[5]

Social Support: Baucom has been interested in the ways by which social support styles contribute to both positive and negative functioning during the course of a relationship.

Health: Baucom has studied the ways in which physiological/psychological health can become stressors in a dyad that can contribute to distress. For example, he has developed intervention studies based on the effects of anorexia, cancer, smoking, and arthritis with regards to couples functioning.

Infidelity: This area is of particular interest to Baucom due to the severity of the direct distress it causes to the relationship. He has collaborated with his colleagues to develop a self-help book for partners experiencing infidelity, and is in the process of creating a training manual to guide practitioners in the aid of couples dealing with infidelity.

CanThrive

Currently, Baucom is working on a large-scale treatment study funded by the National Cancer Institute called CanThrive. This is a couple-based intervention focused on partnerships in which the female has breast cancer. This study observes and measures various aspects of communicated social support between both partners, and is interested in finding possible relationships between differences in social support and treatment outcomes for breast cancer. This study has the largest observationally coded sample of any couples study to date, and is based at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Additionally, he is collaborating with colleagues conducting a similar study in Germany.[5][6]

Selected works and publications

Books

Academic Journals

References

  1. ^ "Prof. Donald Baucom". Klaus-Grawe-Stiftung. 2009. http://www.klaus-grawe-stiftung.ch/content/e9/e107/e108/e109/index_ger.html. Retrieved 2009-11-03. 
  2. ^ Snyder, Douglas K.; Baucom, Donald H.; Gordon, Kristina Coop (2007). Getting past the affair: a program to help you cope, heal, and move on-together or apart. NY: The Guilford Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=4lhV8ynw02AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
  3. ^ "Psychology Department Faculty". UNC Department of Psychology. 2009. http://www.unc.edu/depts/clinpsy/people/faculty_fulltime.html#baucom. Retrieved 2009-11-03. 
  4. ^ Department of Psychology. "Brian Baucom". USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. http://psychology.usc.edu/people/faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1023057. Retrieved 2009-11-03. 
  5. ^ a b Don Baucom (n.d.). "Baucom, Donald H. - Research". UNC Department of Psychology. http://www.unc.edu/depts/clinpsy/people/baucomd.html. Retrieved 2009-11-07. 
  6. ^ "What Is CanThrive?". CanThrive. n.d.. http://canthrive.unc.edu/html/what.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-07. 

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Infidelity — Relationships Types …   Wikipedia

  • Kurt Hahlweg — (* 25. Januar 1947 in Bad Segeberg) ist ein deutscher Psychologe und Professor an der Technische Universität Braunschweig. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Werke (Auswahl) 3 Ehrungen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • La Belle Et Le Clochard — Titre original Lady and the Tramp Réalisation Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Scénario Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi Musique Oliver Wallace …   Wikipédia en Français

  • La Belle et le Clochard — Données clés Titre original Lady and the Tramp Réalisation Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Scénario Erdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Ralph Wright Don DaGradi Sociétés de pr …   Wikipédia en Français

  • La Belle et le clochard — Titre original Lady and the Tramp Réalisation Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Scénario Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi Musique Oliver Wallace …   Wikipédia en Français

  • La belle et le clochard — Titre original Lady and the Tramp Réalisation Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Scénario Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi Musique Oliver Wallace …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Lady and the Tramp — La Belle et le Clochard La Belle et le Clochard Titre original Lady and the Tramp Réalisation Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske Scénario Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Ralph Wright, Don DaGradi Musique Oliver Wallace …   Wikipédia en Français

  • List of Disney animated characters — For Pixar characters, see List of Pixar characters. For The Nightmare Before Christmas characters, see List of The Nightmare Before Christmas characters. The following is an alphabetic list of major and recurring animated characters in the Walt… …   Wikipedia

  • Lady and the Tramp — Infobox Film name = Lady and the Tramp director = Clyde Geronimi Wilfred Jackson Hamilton Luske writer = Ward Greene (novel) Erdman Penner Joe Rinaldi Ralph Wright Don DaGradi Joe Grant (concept) starring = Peggy Lee Barbara Luddy Larry Roberts… …   Wikipedia

  • Mike Schuler — (born September 22, 1940 in Portsmouth, Ohio) is a former head coach in the National Basketball Association. He coached the Portland Trail Blazers (1986–87 to 1988–89) and Los Angeles Clippers (1990–91 to 1991–92) in 338 games, and compiled a win …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”