Dr. Christopher McCarthy is a leading authority on stress and coping. His research focuses on three distinct lines of inquiry in stress and coping: (a) wellness and health psychology, (b) the identification of psychological resources that can help prevent stress, and (c) extending basic research on stress and coping to educational settings, particularly in understanding the stress that educators and counselors experience. In recent years Dr. McCarthy has served as the Training Director of the Counseling Psychology program, Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, and Director of the Counselor Education program.
B.A. in Psychology, University of Virginia, 1988
M.A. in Counseling, Boston College, 1990
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, Georgia State University, 1995
Dr. McCarthy is chiefly interested in improving the understanding of stress that educators and counselors face in their daily work. He has collaborated with colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions to compile several international datasets of school teachers ranging from preschool to high school, as well as counselors in the state of Texas. Dr. McCarthy's foremost goal is to better understand teacher and counselor perceptions of daily demands and the resources they have to meet challenges in their environment.
McCarthy, C., Lambert, R. & Reiser, J. (2014). Vocational concerns of elementary teachers: Stress, job satisfaction, and occupational commitment. Journal of Employment Counseling, 5(2), 59–74.
McCarthy, C., Lambert, R. & Ullrich, A. (2012). International Perspectives on Teacher Stress. Greenwich, Conneticut: Information Age Publishing.
McCarthy, C., Lambert, R. & Crowe, R. (2010). Coping, Stress, and Job Satisfaction as Predictors of Advanced Placement Statistics Teachers' Intention to Leave the Field. NASSP Bulletin, 94, 306–326.
McCarthy, C., Kerne, V., Calfa, N., Lambert, R. & Guzmán, M. (2010). An exploration of school counselors' demands and resources: Relationship to stress, biographic, and caseload characteristics. Professional School Counselor, 13, 146–158.
Westheimer, J., Capello, J., McCarthy, C. & Denny, N. (2009). Employing a group medical intervention for hypertensive male veterans: An exploratory analysis. The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 34(2), 151–174.
President's Award, Association for Specialists in Group Work (2007 - 2009)
Dean's Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education (2007)
Lawrence and Stel Marie Lowman Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education (2006)
