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Name and TitleThomas Plante
Associate Professor & Chair of Psychology
Institutional AffiliationMailing Address500 El Camino Real,
Psychology Department,
SCU,
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0333
Email AddressResearch InterestsMy research focuses on the measurement of religious faith using the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire and how faith helps people cope with a vareity of mental and physical health problems such as substance abuse, cancer, daily stress, and so forth. Also conduct research and practice on sex offending Catholic clergy. Finally, interested in the relationships between psychology and the Roman Catholic Church.
Representative Publications- Plante, T. G., & Sherman, A. S. (Eds.). Faith and Health: Perspectives on the
Relationship Between Religious Faith and Health Outcomes. New York: Guilford (in preparation).
- Plante, T. G. (Ed.). (1999). Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned: Perspectives on Sexual Abuse Committed by Roman Catholic Priests. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood.
- Plante, T. G., Yancey, S., Sherman, A., & Guertin, M. (2000). The association between strength of religious faith and psychological functioning. Pastoral Psychology, 48, 405-412.
- Sherman, A. C., Plante, T. G., Simonton, S., Adams, D., Burris, K., & Harbison, C. (2000). A multidimensional measure of religious involvement for cancer patients: The Duke Religious Index. Journal of Supportive Care in Cancer, 8, 102-109.
Research KeywordsMeasurement, mental health/psychopathology
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