Spotlight Series: Dr. Joe Currier
Meet Dr. Joe Currier, our project PI. He is the first of our spotlight series, which highlights each of our primary investigators and their work on each sub-project.
Dr. Currier did an interview with the University of South Alabama, discussing what called him to pursue this work in integrating spirituality and mental health and his hopes for the future. “This goal of ensuring that every mental health professional can address their clients’ faith or spirituality is something I’m going to pursue for the rest of my career” - Dr. Joe Currier.
Read the rest of his interview here →
In a webinar part of the Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series, Dr. Currier talks about moral injury. These events that violate deeply held convictions pose a unique threat to mental health. Moral injury’s effects reach beyond the scope of cognitive and psychological processes to the spiritual facet of a human being. Because of this, reparation is most effective when mental health clinicians can embrace and invite the spiritual aspect of clients and weave that into mental health care, again showing why this work is so meaningful to him.
You can listen to the rest of the webinar here, specifically 26:00-33:40 →
Finally, Dr. Currier is putting out a call for a request for proposals for sub-project one:
If you are a faculty member teaching a required clinical course in a Master’s and/or Doctoral program in counseling, marriage & family therapy, psychology or social work, we want to work with you!
For more information or to fill out an application, please visit https://www.spiritualandreligiouscompetenciesproject.com/graduate-education-in-rs-competencies