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C. T. Fischer, Ph.D.,ABPP
University of Kentucky
Dr. Fischer is best known for pioneering an individualized/collaborative/therapeutic approach to psychological assessment, for which she has received the Society for Personality Assessment's Mayman and Klopfer Awards for, respectively, outstanding contributions to the assessement literature and for impact on the field of personality assessment.
She has also been active in promoting qualitative research, especially empirical phenomenological research. She has published e-p studies of being criminally victimized (with F. Wertz), and on rapport, intimacy, privacy, living back pain (with M.A. Murphy), and becoming angry. She published (2006) Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction through Empirical Studies, San Diego: Academic Press. For her work in individualized assessment and qualitative research she has received the Carl Rogers Award from the APA division of Humanistic Psychology and Duquesne University's Presidential Award for Scholarship.
Dr. Fischer has participated in psychology's associations, nationally and locally, and has served as President of the state psychological association, APA's divisions of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and of Humanistic Psychology, and on the local association's ethics committee for over 20 years. At Duquesne she is the N.J. Dick Endowed Chair of Community Outreach (2005-10).
