Kathryn Belicki

Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. (Waterloo), MTS (University of Toronto)

Forgiveness

  • personality & situational factors in forgiveness & forgiveness-seeking (e.g., apology), & reconciliation
  • different forms of forgiveness and their relation to personal and social well-being

Psychological Trauma

  • the impact of psychological trauma on psychological and physical well-being
  • the predictors of trauma outcome, including post traumatic growth

Dreams and Nightmares

  • The relation of personality to dreams
  • Who has nightmares?
  • Treatment of nightmares
  • Dreams following bereavement

Psychology and Theology

  • The points of convergence and divergence between psychology and theology
  • Attachment to God and its relation to trauma outcome

Black, J., Belicki, K., Piro, R., & Hughes, H. (2020). Comforting versus distressing dreams of the deceased: Relations to grief, trauma, attachment, continuing bonds, and post-dream Reactions. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 84, 525-550.

Belicki, K., DeCourville, N., Kamble, S. V., Stewart, T., & Rubel, A. (2020). Reasons for Forgiving: Individual differences and emotional outcomes. Sage Open, January-March, 1-14. doi:10.1172/25824402092084

Belicki, K., DeCourville, N., Michalica, K., & Stewart, T. (2013). Differences in why people forgive, and why it matters. Journal of Family and Community Ministries, 26, 26-48.

Belicki, D., & Belicki, K. (2010). Five hours to Baghdad: Lessons learned by two psychologists on a multidisciplinary health care mission to Iraq.  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(6), 311-320.

Milner, C. & Belicki, K. (2010). Assessment and treatment of insomnia in adults: A guide for clinicians. Journal of Counseling and Development, 88, 236-244.

Belicki, K. Rourke, J., & McCarthy, M. (2008). Potential dangers of empathy and related conundrums. In W. Malcolm, N. DeCourville, & K. Belicki. (Eds.) Women’s Perspectives on the Complexities of Forgiveness. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Belicki, K. (1999). Dreams and the recovered memory debate: One clinical researcher’s journey. In M. Rivera (Ed.) Fragment by Fragment: Feminist Perspectives on Memory and Child Sexual Abuse. Charlottetown, PEI: Gynergy Books. pp. 221-237.

 Belicki, K. (1992). Nightmare frequency and nightmare distress: Relationship to psychopathology and cognitive style.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 592-597.

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