Dr. Gerald P. Koocher
Harvard Medical School
Health Care Professional, Psychology
United States
My co-authors include
Dr. John C. Norcross
Dr Hamid Sharif Nia
My Publications
Learning to paddle against the current: A commentary on Conrad’s (2019) “Moving upstrea...
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
December 2021
Ethical claims for outcome monitoring: A reply to Pinner and Kivlighan (2018).
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
April 2021
Historical Analysis: Editors’ Reflections on 50 Years of the Journal of Pediatric Psych...
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
October 2019
When parents abuse children by causing medical problems.
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
October 2019
Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics
October 2019
Emotional support animal assessments: Toward a standard and comprehensive model for men...
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
August 2019
Marijuana use raises special mental health practice issues, even in states where the dr...
Practice Innovations
August 2018
How to practice ethically in medical settings.
Practice Innovations
March 2018
Psychometric Properties of the Death Anxiety Scale-Extended among Patients with End-Sta...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
October 2017
Understanding fees in mental health practice
Practice Innovations
September 2017
Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Suicidal Military Personnel and Veterans
March 2017
Common Ethical Transgressions by Private Practitioners
March 2017
Perceived Risks and Benefits in a Text Message Study of Substance Abuse and Sexual Beha...
Ethics & Behavior
February 2017
Ethical issues in psychology and juvenile justice.
January 2016
Juggling Porcupines
August 2015
Research Ethics and Private Harms
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
May 2014
Discredited Assessment and Treatment Methods Used with Children and Adolescents: A Delp...
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
April 2014
The Affordable Care Act: Threat or menace to ethical practice
January 2014
Managing Your Managed Care Contracts
July 2013
Prototype Mental Health Records
July 2013
Normal Medical Laboratory Values and Measurement Conversions
July 2013
Dealing with Subpoenas
July 2013
Dealing with Licensing Board and Ethics Complaints
July 2013
Understanding Legal Terms of Special Interest in Mental Health Practice
July 2013
Assessing the Quality of a Psychological Testing Report
July 2013
The Tonsil Party and a Career in Pediatric Psychology
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
June 2013
Treating children and adolescents.
January 2012
Co-parenting Children with Chronic Medical Conditions
January 2012
Assisting Attorneys in Psychological Cases: Stealth Consultant or Hired Gun?
January 2011
Ethical and Legal Considerations for Internet-Based Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
September 2010
What Does Not Work? Expert Consensus on Discredited Treatments in the Addictions
Journal of Addiction Medicine
September 2010
Any minute now but far far away: Electronically mediated mental health.
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
September 2009
Ethics and the invisible psychologist.
Psychological Services
May 2009
What Doesn't Work? Discredited Treatments in the Addictions
January 2008
Ethical challenges in mental health services to children and families
Journal of Clinical Psychology
January 2008
Twenty-first century ethical challenges for psychology.
American Psychologist
July 2007
What Scientists Want from Their Research Ethics Committee
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
March 2006
Ethical Issues in Forensic Assessment of Children and Adolescents
March 2006
Discredited psychological treatments and tests: A Delphi poll.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 2006
An adventure in multicultural medicine
January 2006
The IRB Paradox: Could the Protectors Also Encourage Deceit?
Ethics & Behavior
October 2005
Following the money: Economic inhibitors of change affecting graduate education in clin...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
January 2005
Ethics and the Advertising of Professional Services: Blame Canada.
Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
May 2004
Ethical issues in psychotherapy with adolescents
Journal of Clinical Psychology
January 2003
Ethical Implications of Counseling Center--Administration Relations
January 2003
Mentor revealed: Masculinization of an early feminist construct.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
October 2002
Using the CABLES Model to Assess and Minimize Risk in Research: Control Group Hazards
Ethics & Behavior
January 2002
Medical crisis counseling in a health maintenance organization: Preventive intervention.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 2001
Preventive psychosocial intervention in cancer treatment: Implications for managed care.
January 2001
Regulation of telepsychology: A survey of state attorneys general.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
October 2000
Afterthoughts on child custody evaluations.
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
January 1999
Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
January 1999
Helping children to cope: Clinical issues for acutely injured and medically traumatized...
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1998
Addressing loss of control in chronic illness: Theory and practice.
Psychotherapy
January 1998
Ethics and the American Psychological Association
January 1998
Mental health consultation in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1996
Goals and practical considerations in outpatient medical crises intervention.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1996
Confidentiality in psychological practice
Australian Psychologist
November 1995
Empirical Research on Child Maltreatment and the Law
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
June 1995
Managed care: Hidden benefits or delusional thinking?
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1995
Psychological science and the use of anatomically detailed dolls in child sexual-abuse ...
Psychological Bulletin
January 1995
The commerce of professional psychology and the new ethics code.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1994
Preventive intervention following a child's death.
Psychotherapy
January 1994
APA and the FTC: New adventures in consumer protection.
American Psychologist
January 1994
The Institutional Review Board as a mirror of scientific and ethical standards.
American Psychologist
January 1993
Psychological Consultation to a Pediatric Oncology Unit
January 1993
Identifying and Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
January 1992
Evolution of practice in child psychotherapy.
January 1992
Perceptions of Medical Compliance in Children and Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
August 1991
Professional judgment and child abuse reporting in sexual abuse cases.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
January 1991
Questionable methods in alcoholism research.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
January 1991
To be or not to be?: Accreditation, credentialing, and applied developmental psychology
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
October 1990
Confirming content validity in the dark.
Professional Psychology Research and Practice
August 1989
Community consultation in socially sensitive research: Lessons from clinical trials of ...
American Psychologist
January 1988
MEDICAL COMPLIANCE AND COPING WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
March 1987
Memorable Patients
The Psychotherapy Patient
December 1986
Coping with a death from cancer.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
January 1986
Predicting medical compliance among adolescents with cystic fibrosis.
Health Psychology
January 1986
Treatment of the Child with Life-Threatening Illness
Psychotherapy in Private Practice
September 1985
Coping with Survivorship in Childhood Cancer: Family Problems
January 1984
Terminal care and survivorship in pediatric chronic illness
Clinical Psychology Review
January 1984
Psychology and primary health care for children.
American Psychologist
January 1983
Communication of the cancer diagnosis to pediatric patients: impact on long-term adjust...
American Journal of Psychiatry
February 1982
"Studying cancer survivors": The authors reply.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
July 1980
PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVORS
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
April 1980
Pediatric cancer: Psychosocial problems and the high costs of helping
Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
March 1980
Visible physical impairment and psychological adjustment among pediatric cancer survivors
American Journal of Psychiatry
January 1980
Psychiatric sequelae of surviving childhood cancer.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
October 1979
Pediatric cancer survival and marriage: Issues affecting adult adjustment.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
July 1979
Credentialing in psychology: Close encounters with competence?
American Psychologist
January 1979
Impact of Childhood Cancer on Siblings
Health & Social Work
February 1977
Issues in the evaluation of mental health services for children.
Professional Psychology
January 1977
Current practices in child psychotherapy.
Professional Psychology
January 1977
Advertising for psychologists: Pride and prejudice or sense and sensibility?
Professional Psychology
January 1977
Bathroom behavior and human dignity.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 1977
Civil liberties and aversive conditioning for children.
American Psychologist
January 1976
Emerging Selfhood and Cognitive Development
The Journal of Genetic Psychology
December 1974
Talking with children about death.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
April 1974
Perceptual Rigidity in Paranoid Schizophrenia: Use of Projective Animal Drawings
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1973
American "Sex Psychopath" Laws: Injustice in Practice
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
June 1973
Childhood, death, and cognitive development.
Developmental Psychology
January 1973
Swimming, competence, and personality change.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
January 1971
Professional ethics in the United States.
Ethics in psychotherapy.
Addressing ethical and legal issues in clinical supervision.