Montana State University

Health & Human Development

Montana State University
P.O. Box 173540
Bozeman, MT 59717-3540

Tel: (406) 994-3242
Fax: (406) 994-2013
Location: 218 Herrick Hall

HHD Undergraduate Advising Office

Tel: (406) 994-4001
Fax: (406) 994-6314
Location: 121 Hosaeus PE Complex
E-mail: hhd@montana.edu

Department of Health & Human Development

HDCF 563 Multicultural Awareness
HDCO 530 Mind-Body Medicine
HDCO 571 Practicum




 


John Christopher, PhD


Professor, Counseling

220 Herrick Hall
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-3540
jcc@montana.edu | 406.994.6943


Programs and Research Projects

Selected Publications

Christopher & Maris. (2010). Integrating mindfulness into training.

Christopher (2008). Culture, moral topographies, and interactive personhood.

Christopher & Campbell. (2008). An interactivist-hermeneutic methatheory for positive psychology.

Christopher & Hickinbottom. (2008). Positive psychology,ethnocentrism, and the disguised ideology of individualism.

Schure, Christopher, & Christopher. (2008). Teaching self-care.

Counseling Today article on HDCO 530 Mind-Body Medicine and the Art of Self-Care

Bickhard, M. H., & Christopher, J. C. (1994). The influence of early experience on personality development. New Ideas in Psychology,12, 229-252.

Campbell, R. L., Christopher, J. C., & Bickhard, M. H. (2002). Values and the self: An interactivist foundation for moral development. Theory & Psychology, 12, 795-823.

Campbell, R. L., & Christopher, J. C. (1996). Moral development theory: A critique of its Kantian presuppositions. Developmental Review, 16, 1-47.

Campbell, R. L., & Christopher, J. C. (1996). Beyond formalism and altruism: The prospects for moral personality. Developmental Review, 16, 128-123.

Christopher, J. C. (2006). Hermeneutics and the Moral Dimension of Cultural Psychotherapy. In L. T. Hoshmand (Ed.), Culture and psychotherapy: Towards Holistic/Development Integrity and Integration in Practice (pp. 179-203). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Christopher, J. C., & Smith, A. (2006). A Hermeneutic Approach to Culture and Psychotherapy. In R. Moody, & S. Palmer (Eds.), Race, culture and psychotherapy: Critical perspective in multicultural practice (pp. 265-280). New York: Brunner/Routledge.     

Christopher, J. C. (2004). Moral visions of developmental psychology. In B. Slife, J. S. Reber, & F. C. Richardson (Eds.), Critical thinking about psychology: Hidden assumptions and plausible alternatives (pp. 207-231).  Washington, DC: APA Press.

Christopher, J. C., Nelson, T., & Nelson, M. D. (2004). Culture and character education: Problems of interpretation in a multicultural society. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 23, 81, 101.

Christopher, J. C. (2001).  Culture and psychotherapy: Toward a hermeneutic approach. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, and Training, 38, 115-128.

Christopher, J. C.,  Bickhard, M. H., & Lambeth, G. S. (2001). Otto Kernberg's object relations theory: A metapsychological critique. Theory & Psychology, 11, 687-711.

Christopher, J. C. (1999). Situating psychological well-being; Exploring the cultural roots of its theory and research. Journal of Counseling and Development, 77, 141-152.

Christopher, J. C. (1996). Counseling's inescapable moral visionsJournal of Counseling and Development, 75, 17-25 .

Christopher, J. C., & Bickhard, M. H. (1994).  The persistence of basic mistakes: A re-examination of psychopathology within individual psychology. Individual Psychology, 50(2).

Christopher, J. C., & Bickhard, M. H. (1992). Remodeling the "as if" in Adler's concept of the life-style. Individual Psychology, 48(1).

Awards and Honors

Charles & Nora L. Wiley Faculty Award for Meritorious Research, Montana State University (2007)

Bozeman Peacemaker Award (2007)

Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, The Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology of the American Psychological Association (2003)

The Sigmund Koch Early Career Award has been given each year since 2001, by Division 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, to an outstanding new scholar (ten years or less after receiving the Ph.D. degree) in Theoretical Psychology.

Education

  • PhD, University of Texas
  • MEd, Harvard University
  • AB, University of Michigan

Specialties and Interests

  • Counseling psychology
  • Cultural psychology
  • Theoretical and philosophical psychology
  • Mindfulness
  • Health psychology
  • Mind/body medicine
  • Psychological anthropology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Moral development
  • Philosophy of social science
  • Psychological well-being and wellness
  • Hermeneutics
  • Multiculturalism
  • Self and identity