Jeanne Slattery, PhD

Jeanne Slattery, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Assistant Chair in the Department of Psychology, Counseling, and Art Therapy. She is a licensed psychologist with a small practice in Clarion. Her professional service include president of Pennsylvania Psychological Association (2021 – 2024), Secretary of American Psychological Association's Division 31, State, Territorial, and Provincial Associations (2024 – 2026), Member of APA's Council of Representatives (2025 – 2027), and as a member of Governor Wolf's Behavioral Health Commission on Adult Mental Health (2022). She loves teaching and her students, facilitated Clarion University's Partners in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, and co-edited Hand in Hand, which looked at good teaching and teaching practices. She won PPA's Ethics Educators Award in 2020. She has published three books on trauma and clinical practice.

Representative publications include:

Park, C. L., & Slattery, J. M. (in press). College student stress and coping. In L. Tay & A. Palmieri (Eds.). Oxford handbook of well-being in higher education. Oxford University Press.

Park, C. L., & Slattery, J. M. (2025). Religion and spirituality in health psychology (pp. 569-585). In N. Anderson and T. W. Smith (Eds.). APA Handbook of Health Psychology. American Psychological Association.

Park, C. L., Slattery, J. M., & Cao, T. (2024). The spirituality-physical health linkage: The key roles of emotions. In L. J. Miller (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the psychology of spirituality and spirituality (2^nd ed., pp. 546-558). Oxford University Press.

Park, C. L., & Slattery, J. M. (2022). Advances in the science of meaning in the context of trauma. Psyche and Geloof, 33(1), 57-68.

Knauss, L. K., & Slattery, J. M. (2022). Ethics of psychological assessment. Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment (2^nd ed.). Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190092689.013.35

Park, C. L., & Slattery, J. M. (2021). Yoga as an integrative therapy for mental health concerns: An overview of current research evidence. Psychiatry International, 2(4), 386-401. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint2040030

Slattery, J. M., & Park, C. L. (2020). Empathic counseling: Building skills to empower change (2^nd ed.). American Psychological Association.

Slattery, J. M. (2020). Trauma and meaning [Video]. APA Psychotherapy Series. American Psychological Association.

Slattery, J. M., & Forden, C. L. (2020). What psychology students learn: 10 skills that any employer will appreciate. In P. Hettich, S. Iles, & B. Cannon (Eds.), An eye on the workplace: Achieving a career with a bachelor’s in psychology (pp. 78-86). Psi Chi., The International Honor Society in Psychology.

Slattery, J. M. (2020). Syllabi: Leveling the playing field. Teaching Professor. https://www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/preparing-to-teach/syllabus/syllabi-leveling-the-playing-field/

Richmond, A. S., Morgan, R. K., Slattery, J. M., Mitchell, N. G., & Cooper, A. G. (2019). Project Syllabus: An exploratory study of learner-centered syllabi. Teaching of Psychology, 46(1) 6-15.

Park, C. L., Currier, J. M, Harris, J. I., & Slattery, J. M. (2017). Trauma, meaning, and spirituality: Translating research into clinical practice. American Psychological Association.

Richmond, A. S., Slattery, J. M., Mitchell, N., Morgan, R. K., & Becknell, J. (2017). Can a learner-centered syllabus change students' perceptions of student-professor rapport and master teacher behaviors? Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2, 159-168.

Slattery, J. M. (2004).  Counseling diverse clients: Bringing context into therapy. Brooks/Cole.