Zonya Johnson
School: Clinical Psychology
Bio:
Zonya Johnson received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University.
Dr. Johnson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose primary focus is psychodynamic clinical theory and psychotherapeutic technique. Other research interests include socio-cultural values, and health psychology, including fertility issues, cancer treatment, and the interaction between socio-cultural issues and health.
Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
- B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 1969
- M.A., Clinical Psychology, Boston University, 1971
- Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Boston University, 1974
Current Projects and Professional Activities
My academic interests continue to be in the areas of humanistically based psychodynamic and relational psychotherapies, health psychology, ethnocultural issues in psychology and the intersection of these three areas. A recent activity involves the Tabono Project, a joint program of the APA and CDC to provide expert social and behavioral science consultation to community agencies involved with AIDs prevention in the African American Community. My psychotherapy practice of 30 plus years with adults, older adolescents and couples reflects these interests and informs the research projects of the students who work with me. These clinical and research interests include sociocultural diversity and its effect upon the therapeutic process, multicultural families, biracial individuals, chronic illness, the impact of reproductive technology, the effect of culture upon health care delivery, and more generally the issue of authenticity and presence in working with clients.
Important Conference Presentations
Research Interests
My research interests are focused in the areas of diversity, culture, privilege, underserved populations, community mental health, health psychology broadly defined, including chronic illness, the impact of culture upon the effective delivery of health care services, developmental issues in multicultural families and bicultural individuals, and the relationship between psychotherapeutic intervention and culture across the diagnostic range.
Research Expertise
I have worked with students using a variety of methods including case study, psychobiography, narrative, grounded theory, and survey/questionnaire. I also work with students interested in combined qualitative/quantitative methodologies.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
As Director of Clinical Training, I am available to help students plan their clinical training while at Saybrook. This would include discussion of the student’s eventual professional goals and the most appropriate practicum and internship training sites to facilitate reaching their goals. For students who decide to approach an agency without a preexisting training program and construct a program, we can discuss the desired components such a program and career implications of the various choices.
Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research |
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
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| Survey Research |
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| Interview Research |
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| Observational Research |
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| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
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| Focus Groups |
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| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
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| Grounded Theory |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Heuristic Research |
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Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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