Professor Emeritus
Education:
Gradutate of the University of Calgary, 1985
Scholarly Interests:
Women’s sexuality and reproductive health; Voluntary and involuntary childlessness; Clinical supervision; Developmental transitions in adult life.
Awards:
Canadian Psychological Association, Elected Fellow (2000)
Outstanding Non-Research Article Award
Canadian Counselling Association (1991)
Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations (UBC) Research Scholar (1992)
Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Research Scholarship
Selected Publications:
Books:
Daniluk, J.C. (2001). The infertility survival guide: Everything you need to know to cope with the challenges while maintaining your sanity, dignity, and relationships. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
Daniluk, J.C. (1998). Women’s sexuality across the lifespan: Challenging myths, creating meanings. New York: Guilford Publications. Paperback Edition released in 2003.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Daniluk, J.C., & Koert, E. (2013). The other side of the fertility coin: A comparison of childless men’s and women’s knowledge of fertility and assisted reproductive technology. Fertility and Sterility, 99 (3), 839-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.10.033
Daniluk, J.C., & Koert, E. (2012). Childless Canadian men’s and women’s childbearing intentions, attitudes towards, and willingness to use assisted human reproduction. Human Reproduction 27(8), 2405-2412.
Daniluk, J.C., Koert, E., & Cheung, A.P. (2012). Childless Women’s Knowledge of Fertility and Assisted Human Reproduction: Identifying the Gaps. Fertility and Sterility, 97 (2), 420-426.
Hirakata, P.E., & Daniluk, J.C. (2009). Swimming upstream: The experiences of academic mothers of young children. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 43 (4), 283-294.
Majcher, J., & Daniluk, J.C. (2009). The process of becoming a supervisor for students in a doctoral training course. Training & Education in Professional Psychology, 3 (2), 63-71.
Daniluk, J.C., & Browne, N. (2008). Religious Doctrine and Women’s Sexuality: Reconciling the Contradictions. Women & Therpay, 31(1) 129-142.
Kranz, K.C., & Daniluk, J.C. (2006). Living outside the box: Lesbian families created through the use of anonymous donor insemination. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 86, 1-33.
Winter, A., & Daniluk, J.C. (2004). A gift from the heart: The experiences of women whose egg donation helped their sisters become mothers. Journal of Counseling and Development. 82, 483-495.
Daniluk, J.C. & Hurtig-Michell, J. (2003). Themes of hope and healing: Infertile couples experiences of adoption. Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 389-399.
Daniluk, J.C. (2001). “If we had it to do over again…”: Couples’ reflections on their experiences of infertility treatments. The Family Journal 9 (2), 122-133.
Daniluk, J. C. (2001). Reconstructing their lives: A longitudinal, qualitative analysis of the transition to biological childlessness for infertile couples. Journal of Counseling and Development, 79(4), 439-449.
Webb, R., & Daniluk, J.C. (1999). The end of the line: Infertile men’s experiences of being unable to produce a child. Men and Masculinity, 2(1), 6-25.
Theoretical Orientation:
Feminist-existential psychodynamic
Research Funding Sources and Current Projects
Important Notice: The original MFC copyrighted website was officially shut down when Dr. Daniluk retired in January of 2020. Subsequently, all of the original content from the MFC website, which surreptitiously had been scraped by cyber pirates, was illegally republished in 2024 on the hijacked website at myfertilitychoices.com, for the purpose of promoting the online sales of generic prescription drugs.
Dr. Daniluk would like the public to know that she is not affiliated with this impostor website and does not endorse the online pharmacy being recommended on the pirated website, nor the purchase or use of any of the generic prescription drugs being promoted on the site.
CIHR, SSHRC, HSS, Health Canada
Fertility Awareness Online – the development and maintenance of the educational website MyFertilityChoices.com to support informed reproductive decision-making.
Fertility Awareness Survey (FAS) and (FAS-M) – development of a national on-line questionnaire assessing adult Canadian women and men’s fertility knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about delay childbearing, and assisted human reproduction treatments and parenting options.
Research Projects:
Watch Dr. Judith Daniluk present how a series of life events and decisions have led to a passionate and successful career as a clinical researcher and professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
Courses Taught:
CNPS 678 Doctoral Theories
CNPS 688 Doctoral Supervision
CNPS 598 Master’s Practicum
CNPS 588 Supervised Clinical Training
CNPS 524 Counselling Adults