Faculty

Marijo Lucas, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

PsyD Practicum & Predoctoral Internship Coordinator

Administrative Coordinator, IU-Predoctoral Internship Consortium

Dr. Marijo Lucas earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 1989.  For several years she served as Assistant Coordinator for the Student Counseling Service and was an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Psychology Department at Auburn University. In 1993, she moved to the Philadelphia area, where maintained a full-time private practice until 1997, when she joined Immaculata University on a full-time basis after teaching for several years on an adjunct basis.  

Dr. Lucas is the PsyD Practicum and Predoctoral Internship Coordinator for the PsyD Clinical and PsyD School Psychology Programs, and Administrative Coordinator of the IU-Predoctoral Internship Consortium.  She regularly attends national conferences related to clinical training (i.e. APPIC Conferences, CAPIC Part-time Internship Conference), and presents at workshops related to clinical training and supervision (i.e. PPA Fall Conference, PPAGS Internship Fair, etc.). 

In addition to these interests in clinical training, Dr. Lucas pursues her interest in computer technologies through participating on the University’s Academic Technology Council, regularly attending the Society for Applied Learning Technologies Conferences, and integrating on-line technologies into her roles in clinical and academic training. 

Dr. Lucas is also active in the professional community.  She is a Licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.  She is a long-standing member of the PPA Convention Committee, and is Co-Chair of the Student Research Poster Session.  She is also a member of the CE Committee for Division 32 of APA. 

Dr. Lucas has presented and written in the areas of Existential and Humanistic theories and applications, process-oriented psychotherapy, and group process.  She is currently working with family and colleagues of James Bugental to make his work more readily available to others through publications and through the availability of his writings and papers in the Archives of Humanistic Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara. 

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Publications

Paul, N.C. & Lucas, M.N. (2005).  Reconceptualizing treatment for tobacco abuse: Exploring subjectivity and intentionality.  Humanistic Psychologist. 

Lucas, M.N.. (2004).  Existential Regret.  Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 58-70. 

Lucas, M.N. (2003).  Book Review: Becoming Good Parents.  AHP Perspectives, April/May. 

Lucas, M.N. (2003).  Sincerity as a goal of psychotherapy.  AHP Perspectives, Feb/March. 

Lucas, M.N. (2002).  Sincerity.  Immaculata Magazine, Fall, 9. 

Lucas, M.N. (2001).  Wanting in the therapeutic relationship.  AHP Perspectives.  June/July. 

Stanton, A.L., & New, M.J. (1988).  Ethical responsibilities to depressed research participants.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 19, 279-285. 

Presentations

Providing Quality Supervision with Trainees: Current Requirements, Standards and Practice.  Exton, PA, November, 2007. 

(with panel members) PPAGS Internship Fair (Panel), Chestnut Hill College, PA, October, 2007. 

(with Elizabeth Bugental and additional panel members) The Contributions of James Bugental to Humanistic Existential Psychotherapy.  (Panel Member) San Francisco, CA, August, 2007. 

(with M. Sterling and additional panel members) Learning Through Human Encounter: The Value of Phenomenology (Discussant/Panel), Immaculata, PA; October, 2004. 

Conversation Hour with David Shapiro regarding the Similarities and Differences between his Psychotherapy Approach and Existential/Humanistic Psychotherapies.  (Interviewer and Facilitator), Immaculata, PA, October, 2004. 

(with S. Browning, D. Debiak, and H. Smith)  Qualitative and Phenomenological Analysis in Psychotherapy Research: Talking About versus Describing Experience.  (Discussant, and presented paper titled Therapist Anger Towards Clients: A Phenomenological Study of Women Therapists), North American Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference, Newport, RI, November, 2003. 

When Clients Have Difficulty Being and Hearing Sincerely, PCE 2003 Conference, The Netherlands, July 2003.

Using Process and Subjectivity in Supervision, Immaculata, PA, April, 2003. 

EHTA On-line Program Development, SEPCHE Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2003.

Insincerity and Difficult Clients, Carl Rogers Symposium, La Jolla, CA, July 2002. 

Difficult Clients and Blocks to Sincerity, Art of the Psychotherapist IV, Petaluma, CA, June, 2002.

Existential Regret, Art of the Psychotherapist II, Petaluma, CA, July 2000. 

Assistant Faculty, Art of the Psychotherapist II for Russian Psychologists, Petaluma, CA, June 2000. 

Human Emotions: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective.  Association for Existential Inquiry, San Francisco, CA, March 2000.