Title
Assistant Professor
Department:
CPSE
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Office: 273 MCKB
Phone: 801-422-2620
Email: gekawika_allenG.E. Kawika@gmail.com@byu.eduphoria
Website: education.byu.edu/polypsi
Professor Allen received his BS in speech/organizational communication and his MS in counseling psychology at the University of Utah. He then received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia (a top-ranked program) and completed his predoctoral clinical internship at Duke University. His research areas involve spiritual, cultural, and indigenous ways of healing in psychotherapy including appropriate psychotherapies and interventions for Polynesians/Polynesian Americans, as well as examining the intersections of religiosity/spirituality, coping/collectivistic coping, depression, anxiety, and psychological well-being/adjustment among Polynesians/Polynesian Americans. Professor Allen leads the Poly Psi Team research efforts involving Polynesian Psychology Research. He is currently an assistant professor in the counseling psychology doctorate program at Brigham Young University.
Foundations of counseling psychology, counseling/psychotherapy methods and skills, career counseling, research methods, ethics in psychotherapy practice, group process, inferential statistics, culture-appropriate and cross-cultural perspectives in counseling.
Cultural perspectives in psychology, culture-appropriate interventions and counseling/psychotherapy process and outcome, religiosity/spirituality, psychological well-being/adjustment, specifically among Polynesians/Polynesian Americans. Intersections of perfectionism, scrupulosity, psychology, and religiosity among a variety of religious individuals.
http://education.byu.edu/polypsi
Counseling attitudes and stigma among Polynesian Americans
- Authors: Allen, G. E. Kawika; Smith, Timothy
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Sage
- Country: U.S.
- Volume: 44
- Issue: 1
- Abstract: click to view
Bringing spiritually oriented psychotherapies into the health care mainstream: A call for worldwide collaboration
- Authors: Richards, P. ; Sanders, Peter; Lea, Troy; McBride, Jason; Allen, Gerald Kawika
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
Spiritual pathways to healing and recovery: An intensive single-N study of an eating disorder patient
- Authors: Lea, Troy; Richards, P.; Sanders, Peter; McBride, Jason; Allen, Gerald Kawika
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal