Brent D. Slife

Brent D. Slife is Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University, where he chairs the doctoral program in theoretical and philosophical psychology and serves as a member of the doctoral program in clinical psychology. He has been honored recently with several awards for his scholarship and teaching, including the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for his contribution to psychology, and the Karl G. Maeser Award for top researcher at BYU. Slife moved from Baylor University, where he served as Director of Clinical Training for many years and was honored as Outstanding Research Professor and received the Circle of Achievement award for his teaching. He recently served as the president of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, on the Council of the American Psychological Association, and on the editorial boards of six journals. He has authored over 160 articles and six books and continues his psychotherapy practice of over twenty-five years, where he specializes in marital and family therapies.