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  • Job title: Research Director
  • Dept: Applied Psychology
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Paul Camic

Paul M Camic is  Professor of Psychology and Research Director in the Department of Applied Psychology. He is also a Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist. He was previously on the faculty at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where he directed the health psychology programme, at Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago) in the clinical psychology program, and in the Department of Psychatry at the University of Chicago where he was Director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic. He took his BA (honours) in social geography at Clark University, MA in psychology at Tufts University, and his PhD in psychology at Loyola University in Chicago. He completed his internship and post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the University of Chicago.

In addition to research and clinical work in health psychology in the US and UK, he has also been involved with community-based research in state schools, community organisations and museums/galleries.

Paul has had long-standing interests in how psychology and the arts might intersect with health care to form new intervention and research possibilities. He has presented internationally on the biological origins of the arts, incorporating the arts into undergraduate and postgraduate psychology curriculum, and the use of the arts in cultural reuse and community development.

Related research includes the use of singing and other arts as interventions for people with a dementia and their carers; the use of found and second hand objects in clinical work; the gallery/museum as a site for mental health intervention to enhance wellbeing and quality of life. Paul is a founding member of the newly established Material Objects Research Group |(MORG) with colleagues from Nottingham, UCL, Nottingham-Trent, and Columbia College Chicago.

He coordinates the Psychology Arts & Health PhD| and the PG Cert in Evaluation Research.|

Paul is also founding co-executive editor ofArts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice published by Routledge: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rahe|  and is on the editorial board of the APA journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.

 

Select publications include the following:

  • Camic, P.M. (1999). Clinical training and the arts. Psychology and The Arts- American Psychological Association Division 10 Newsletter, summer.
  • Camic, P.M. (1999). Expanding treatment possibilities for chronic pain through expressive arts therapies. In C. Malchioti (Ed.). Medical art therapy with adults. London: Jessica Kingsley.
  • Camic, P.M. (2000). Incorporating the arts into graduate training programs in clinical psychology and medicine. Liberal arts and the education of artists: Conference proceedings. New York:  School of the Visual Arts Press.
  • Camic, P.M. & Wilson, L.E. (2001). Building and blending: Creating places for the arts in psychotherapy. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2.
  • Camic, P.M. (2001). Creating images, sound, movement, enactment, word: The arts in clinical training. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 2.
  • Cafasso, L.L., Camic, P.M. & Rhodes, J.E. (2002). Middle school climate examined and altered by teacher-directed intervention assesses through qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Research in Middle Level Education, 25 (2), 1-17.
  • Camic, P.M. (2003). Expanding, shrinking, expanding. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 3
  • Camic, P.M., Rhodes, J E. & Yardley, L. (2003). Naming the stars: Integrating qualitative methods into psychological research. In P.M. Camic, J.E. Rhodes & L. Yardley (Eds.), Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design. Washington: American Psychological Association.
  • Camic, P.M. & Cafasso, L. (2003). Enhancing Student Self-Assessment Competencies through Academic Portfolios and Student-Led Parent Conferences, Education-Line: British Education Index
     http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003150.htm
  • Camic, P.M. & Rhodes, J.E. (2003) Blending and Bending Paradigms in Large Scale Multi-site Educational Research. Education-Line: British Education Index
     http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00003194.htm
  • Chamberlain, K., Camic, P.M., & Yardley, L. (2004). Qualitative analysis of experience: Grounded theory and case studies. In D. Marks & L. Yardley  (Eds.). Research methods for clinical and health psychology. London: Sage
  • Camic, P.M. & Gaugh, L. (2004). Gastrointestinal Evaluation & Treatment in Psychology. In P.M. Camic & S. J. Knight (Eds.) Clinical handbook of health psychology: A practical guide to effective interventions, second edition. Cambridge, MA, Toronto & Gottingen: Hogrefe & Huber
  • Camic, P.M. (2004). Assemblage as Rorschach: Empirical hermeneutic aesthetics and the art spectator. In J P. Frois, P. Andrade & J.F. Marques (Eds.). Art and Science. Lisbon: Gulbenkian Foundation
  • Rhodes, J.E. & Camic, P.M. (2006). Building bridges between universities and middle-schools: A teacher-centered collaboration. Educational and Child Psychology, 23(1), 42-51 
  • Camic, P. M. (2007). More than words: Making use of the arts in clinical and counseling psychology training. In I.A. Serlin (Ed.) Whole Person Psychology: Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies. Westport, CT: Praeger.
  • Camic, P.M. (2007). Clinical training in applied psychology and the arts: New possibilities for evidence-based practice. The California Psychologist, 40 (6).

  • Camic, P.M. (2008). Playing in the mud: Health psychology, the arts, and creative approaches to health care. Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 287-298.

  • Clift, S., Camic, P.M., Chapman, B. Clayton, G., Daykin, N., Eades, G., Parkinson, C., Secker, H., Stickley, T. & White, M. (2009). The state of arts and health in England. Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, 1(1), 6-35

  • Camic, P.M., Clift, S. & Daykin, N. (2009). Inaugural Editorial: Coming of age for arts and health: What we hope to achieve. Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, 1(1), 3-5.

  • Rhodes, J.E., Camic, P.M., Milburn, M. & Lowe, S.R. (2009). Improving middle school climate through teacher-centered change strategies. Journal of Community Psychology, 37(6), 711-724.

  • Camic, P.M. (2010). From trashed to treasured: A grounded theory analysis of found objects. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, (4)2, 81-92.

  • Coldwell, J., Meddings, S. & Camic, P.M. (2010/11). How people with psychosis positively contribute to their family: A grounded theory analysis. Journal of Family Therapy, 33(3), 353-371. ISSN:1467-642DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6427.2010.00513.x Impact factor: 1.22

  • Von Lob, G., Camic, P.M. & Clift, S. M. (2010). The use of singing-in-a-group as a response to adverse life events.  International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(3), 45-53. ISSN: 1462-3730 Thompson ISI 1.796

  • Alcock, C., Camic, P.M. & Barker, C. (2011). Intergenerational practice in the community: An applied ethnographic evaluation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 1-14. ISSN:1099-1298 DOI: 10.1002/casp1084 Impact factor 0.606

  • Caird, H., Camic, P.M. & Thomas, N. (2011). The lives of adults over 30 living with sickle cell disorder. British Journal of Health Psychology. ISSN: 1359-107X DOI: 10.1348/135910710X529278 Impact factor 1.485

  • Roberts, S., Camic, P.M. & Springham, N. (2011). New roles for art galleries: Art-viewing as a community intervention for family carers of people with mental health problems. Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 3(2), 146-159. ISSN 1753-3015DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2011.561360

  • Camic, P.M., Brooker, J. & Neal, A. (2011). Found objects in clinical practice: Preliminary evidence. The Arts in Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2011.04.002Impact factor: 0.609

  • O’Hanlon, K., Camic, P.M., Shear, J. (2011) Factors associated with parental adaptation to having a child with a cleft lip and/or palate: The impact of parental diagnosis. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal ISSN: 1055-6656  doi: 10.1597/10-018 Impact factor: 0.884

  • Walker, T., Wheatcroft, R. & Camic, P.M. (2011). Mind-mindedness in parents of pre-schoolers: A comparison between clinical and community samples.  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi:10.1177/1359104511409142 Impact factor: 1.074

  • Camic, P. M., Williams, C. M. & Meeten, F. (in press, 2011). Does a ‘singing together group’ improve the quality of life of people with a dementia and their carers? A pilot evaluation study. Dementia: The International Journal for Social Research and Practice.

  • Simonds, L., Camic, P.M. & Causey, A. (in press, 2012). Using focused ethnography in psychological research. In H. Cooper (Editor-in-Chief), P.M. Camic, D. Long, A. Panter, D. Rindskof, & K. Sher, (Assoc. Eds.) The Handbook of research methods in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

  • Livesey, L., Morrison, I., Clift, S. & Camic, P.M. (in press, 2012). Perceived benefits of choral singing on health: A comparison of singers with high and low psychological wellbeing.  Journal of Public Mental Health.