Daniel Cox

Professor
CNPS Program Coordinator
CNPS Area Coordinator
CNPS 362 Coordinator

dan.cox@ubc.ca

604–827–1828

Office: Scarfe Library Block 298

Scholarly Interests:

Dan’s research is primarily dedicated to understanding and optimizing helping and change processes in psychotherapy and other interpersonal contexts. Within these broad areas, he’s particularly interested in therapeutic responsiveness and interpersonal frameworks. Recently, Dan’s been involved in a series of projects examining how to best help clients in suicidal crisis and has been speaking and writing about how the field should move away from traditional practices with clients in suicidal crisis (e.g., suicide risk assessment) and toward a therapeutically responsive approach.Dan also hosts the podcast Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology, which you can click here to listen to or here to watch on YouTube.

Theoretical Orientation:

I have come to believe that how we select and identify with theoretical orientations is anachronistic. That we would be better off thinking of different orientations as prioritizing different aspects of a system that we can flexibly move between to adapt to our clients’ moment-to-moment needs. Within this therapeutically-responsive framework, the approaches that I most draw from are:

Cognitive-Behavioural

Emotion-Focused

Person-Centred

Interpersonal/Psychodynamic

Courses Taught
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CNPS 574 Career Development

CNPS 584 Program Evaluation

CNPS 508 Trauma Psychology

CNPS 669 Research in Counselling Psychology

CNPS 362 Basic Helping Skills

Education
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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2011, Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Kansas, 2009, M.S., Ph.D.

York College of Pennsylvania, 2003, B.S.

Selected Publications
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Note: Student co-authors are underlined

Colton, T. M. S., Cox, D. W., & Mickelson, J. M., Kealy, D. (2024). Reciprocal language style matching: Indicator or facilitator of therapeutic bond. Psychotherapy Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2024.2437644

Cox, D. W., Deptuck, H. M., Fischer, O., Wojcik, K. D. (2024). The role of the therapeutic bond when working with clients in suicidal crisis. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 71(2), 115-125. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000724

Fischer, O., Cox, D. W., Mickelson, J. M., Lyons, K. (2024). Bridging the multicultural orientation framework with sexual and gender minority psychotherapy: A mixed studies systematic review. Psychotherapy, 61(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000518

Mickelson, J. M., Cox, D. W., Kealy, D., & Young, R. A. (2024). A distress-processing model for clients in suicidal crisis: Development and initial validation. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 45 (1), 18–25. https://doi.org/2023060600013400871

Kimbley, C. T., Cox, D. W., Kahn, J. H., Renshaw, K. D. (2023). Feeling pressured to talk about trauma: How pressure to disclose alters the association between trauma disclosure and posttraumatic growth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36 (3), 567-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22930

O’Loughlin, J. I., Cox, D. W., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., Castro, C. (2023). Traditional masculinity ideology and psychotherapy treatment outcome for military service veteran men. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 24 (1), 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000415

Cox, D. W., Wojcik, K. W., Kotlarczyk, A. M., Park, M., Mickelson, J. M., & Klonsky, E. D. (2021). How the helping process unfolds for clients in suicidal crises: Linking helping-style trajectories with outcomes in online crisis chats. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51 (6), 1224-1234. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12804

Cox, D. W., Kealy, D., Kahn, J. H., McCloskey, K. D., Joyce, A. S., Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2020). The effect of depression on personality disorder treatment: Depression amplifying the interpersonal benefits of negative-affect expression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 272, 318-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.133

Cox, D. W., Kealy, D., Kahn, J. H., Wojcik, K. D., Joyce, A. S., Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2019). The attenuating effect of depression symptoms on negative-affect expression: Individual and group effects in psychotherapy for personality disorders. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66 (3), 351-361. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1037/cou0000335