Thomas M Kelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5380935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas M Kelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelley |
| SIGNATURE | KELLEY T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5285-8581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Generative, Homeostatic Account of Psychological Experience: Reinterpreting Resilience, Distress, and Recovery Across the Lifespan
Exploring a psychospiritual theory of the general factor p: A qualitative analysis
An as-yet unidentified single factor, commonly known in the literature as general factor p, has been proposed to account for the liability to psychopathology, comorbidity among psychopathologies and the persistence and severity of psychopathology. This study offers a qualitative analysis of a psychospiritual theory of factor p, framed as an insufficient understanding of the human psychospiritual system as envisioned by Sydney Banks. Fifty-six par…
A psychospiritual theory of general factor p
Research points to a single factor known as general factor p that can account for people’s liability to psychopathology, comorbidity among psychopathologies and the severity of psychopathology. Here, we speculate that this common psychopathology factor is an insufficient understanding of the way the human psychospiritual system (or HPS) works. We first describe the PrinciplesFootnote1 that we posit account for the operation of the HPS. Then we pr…
A psychospiritual understanding of childhood perfectionism
Several gaps in clarity in the childhood perfectionism (or CP) literature prevent a more precise understanding of CP and its precipitants, motivators, and maintaining factors and compromise the efficacy of its prevention and treatment. The author posits that these gaps can be filled via a sufficient level of two psychospiritual understandings: the Principle or power of Thought and innate mental health. First, several gaps in clarity in the CP lit…
Realizing the power of thought and innate mental health: Two overlooked ingredients for resolving traumatic memories
We use the logic of the spiritual Principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought to describe two often overlooked ingredients for the resolution of traumatic memories – the power of Thought and innate mental health. We first review the three Principles and use their logic to explain why these two typically unrecognized ingredients can improve and sustain treatment outcomes for people experiencing traumatic memories. Then, we use the log…
The Efficacy of Principle-Based Correctional Counseling for Improving the Self-Control and Mental Health of People Incarcerated for Sexual Violence
This study is the first to test the efficacy of principle-based correctional counseling (PBCC) for improving the self-control and mental health of people incarcerated for sexual violence (SV). A total of 132 males incarcerated for SV were assigned to a treatment group that received cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) supplemented with intensive PBCC and a waitlist control group that received only CBT. Results using paired t -tests and an analysis of…
The antecedents of job involvement: An exploratory study among Chinese prison staff
Realizing Improved Mindfulness/Flow/Mental Health Through Understanding Three Spiritual Principles
A new spiritual understanding commonly known as the Three Principles proposes that mindfulness/flow/mental health is people’s most natural state and can be realized and sustained by everyone via insights gained through understanding three spiritual principles—Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought. We test this proposition for people exposed to the intervention grounded in these principles. The results appear to support our prediction that in…
Understanding Spiritual Principles or Depending on Techniques To Realize and Sustain Optimal Mental Health
The primary goal of positive psychology is understanding and facilitating optimal mental health. However, absent fundamental causal principles that explain human psychological experience, positive psychology is unlikely to achieve this goal. We posit that fundamental causal principles may already have been uncovered, and we offer a study that tests the process from exposure to these principles to improved mental health. The results appear to supp…
Inside-Out or Outside-In: Understanding Spiritual Principles Versus Depending on Techniques to Realize Improved Mindfulness/Mental Health
We examine the relationship between understanding the psycho-spiritual principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, and perceived dependence on mindfulness techniques to realize improved mindfulness/mental health. Participants exposed to the intervention grounded in these principles also reported practicing meditation and/or mindfulness-based intervention techniques. The results from this preliminary study appear to support our predi…
Realizing Resilience in Trauma Exposed Juvenile Offenders: A Promising New Intervention for Juvenile Justice and Prevention Professionals
The association of affective and continuance commitment with correctional staff life satisfaction
Previous research suggests that life satisfaction is a stronger predictor of job performance than job satisfaction, and life satisfaction is negatively associated with absenteeism and a desire to retire early. Despite the fact that employees with high life satisfaction are essential for organizations' optimal efficiency, little empirical research exists to determine the individual and workplace factors that shape and maintain high correctional st…
Relational aggression and victimization in gay male relationships: The role of internalized homophobia
This article presents two studies that are the first to examine relational aggression and relational victimization in gay male peer relationships. A qualitative pilot study provides a strong rationale for a subsequent empirical investigation of 100 young adult, self‐identified gay males. Results of both studies demonstrate that relational aggression and relational victimization are common experiences in gay male relationships. They also reveal fo…
The graduate record examination as a predictor of graduate student performance: The case of criminal justice
Research on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) as a predictor of graduate student performance has been marked by much debate. Thornell and McCoy (1985) have found that the relationship between student performance and the GRE may be sensitive to the discipline being studied. While unexplained to date, this disciplinary variation may be related to the differences in means and/or relative dispersions of GRE scores among disciplines. Further, ther…
The need for a principle-based positive psychology
The need for a principle-based positive psychology
Achievement in criminal justice: An analysis of graduating seniors
Pressure from legislative bodies and the public for accountability in higher education has been associated with programs to gauge student's knowledge through means such as achievement tests. Yet little scholarly work is available on these programs. The present study explores the determinants of scores on a standardized criminal justice achievement test; some significant determinants of scores might be manipulated in efforts to improve program par…
Peterson, Marilyn R., at Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships
PETERSON, Marilyn R., AT PERSONAL RISK: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 25(3), pp. 422–423
A Test of the “Hired Gun” Hypothesis in Psychiatric Testimony
A sample of 255 psychiatrists and psychologists responded to a questionnaire designed to elicit the extent of their experience as defense or prosecution witnesses in criminal determinations of insanity. Prior defense experience correlated .78 with prior prosecution experience, suggesting that experts cannot readily be classified as working exclusively for the defense or for the prosecution
Assessing and predicting the competency of juvenile court volunteer probation officers
Effects of Familiarity on Self-Disclosure in a Client-Counselor Relationship
A modified version of Jourard's self-disclosure questionnaire was administered at periodic intervals to 33 undergraduates in psychology who were volunteer counselors for youths referred to the Wayne County Juvenile Court. They reported self-disclosure for themselves and their clients. It was predicted that self-disclosure would increase in a linear fashion with time and that clients' self-disclosure would be related to level of disclosure by coun…
Clinical assessment and the detention, disposition, and treatment of emotionally disturbed delinquent youths
Validation of a selection device for volunteer probation officers
The antecedents of job involvement: An exploratory study among Chinese prison staff
The association of affective and continuance commitment with correctional staff life satisfaction
Previous research suggests that life satisfaction is a stronger predictor of job performance than job satisfaction, and life satisfaction is negatively associated with absenteeism and a desire to retire early. Despite the fact that employees with high life satisfaction are essential for organizations' optimal efficiency, little empirical research exists to determine the individual and workplace factors that shape and maintain high correctional st…
Relational aggression and victimization in gay male relationships: The role of internalized homophobia
This article presents two studies that are the first to examine relational aggression and relational victimization in gay male peer relationships. A qualitative pilot study provides a strong rationale for a subsequent empirical investigation of 100 young adult, self‐identified gay males. Results of both studies demonstrate that relational aggression and relational victimization are common experiences in gay male relationships. They also reveal fo…
Assessing and predicting the competency of juvenile court volunteer probation officers
Validation of a selection device for volunteer probation officers
Validation of a selection device for volunteer probation officers
Clinical assessment and the detention, disposition, and treatment of emotionally disturbed delinquent youths
Effects of Familiarity on Self-Disclosure in a Client-Counselor Relationship
A modified version of Jourard's self-disclosure questionnaire was administered at periodic intervals to 33 undergraduates in psychology who were volunteer counselors for youths referred to the Wayne County Juvenile Court. They reported self-disclosure for themselves and their clients. It was predicted that self-disclosure would increase in a linear fashion with time and that clients' self-disclosure would be related to level of disclosure by coun…
Assessing and predicting the competency of juvenile court volunteer probation officers
A Test of the “Hired Gun” Hypothesis in Psychiatric Testimony
A sample of 255 psychiatrists and psychologists responded to a questionnaire designed to elicit the extent of their experience as defense or prosecution witnesses in criminal determinations of insanity. Prior defense experience correlated .78 with prior prosecution experience, suggesting that experts cannot readily be classified as working exclusively for the defense or for the prosecution
Peterson, Marilyn R., at Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships
PETERSON, Marilyn R., AT PERSONAL RISK: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 25(3), pp. 422–423
Achievement in criminal justice: An analysis of graduating seniors
Pressure from legislative bodies and the public for accountability in higher education has been associated with programs to gauge student's knowledge through means such as achievement tests. Yet little scholarly work is available on these programs. The present study explores the determinants of scores on a standardized criminal justice achievement test; some significant determinants of scores might be manipulated in efforts to improve program par…
The need for a principle-based positive psychology
The need for a principle-based positive psychology
The graduate record examination as a predictor of graduate student performance: The case of criminal justice
Research on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) as a predictor of graduate student performance has been marked by much debate. Thornell and McCoy (1985) have found that the relationship between student performance and the GRE may be sensitive to the discipline being studied. While unexplained to date, this disciplinary variation may be related to the differences in means and/or relative dispersions of GRE scores among disciplines. Further, ther…
Relational aggression and victimization in gay male relationships: The role of internalized homophobia
This article presents two studies that are the first to examine relational aggression and relational victimization in gay male peer relationships. A qualitative pilot study provides a strong rationale for a subsequent empirical investigation of 100 young adult, self‐identified gay males. Results of both studies demonstrate that relational aggression and relational victimization are common experiences in gay male relationships. They also reveal fo…
The association of affective and continuance commitment with correctional staff life satisfaction
Previous research suggests that life satisfaction is a stronger predictor of job performance than job satisfaction, and life satisfaction is negatively associated with absenteeism and a desire to retire early. Despite the fact that employees with high life satisfaction are essential for organizations' optimal efficiency, little empirical research exists to determine the individual and workplace factors that shape and maintain high correctional st…
Realizing Resilience in Trauma Exposed Juvenile Offenders: A Promising New Intervention for Juvenile Justice and Prevention Professionals
Inside-Out or Outside-In: Understanding Spiritual Principles Versus Depending on Techniques to Realize Improved Mindfulness/Mental Health
We examine the relationship between understanding the psycho-spiritual principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, and perceived dependence on mindfulness techniques to realize improved mindfulness/mental health. Participants exposed to the intervention grounded in these principles also reported practicing meditation and/or mindfulness-based intervention techniques. The results from this preliminary study appear to support our predi…
Understanding Spiritual Principles or Depending on Techniques To Realize and Sustain Optimal Mental Health
The primary goal of positive psychology is understanding and facilitating optimal mental health. However, absent fundamental causal principles that explain human psychological experience, positive psychology is unlikely to achieve this goal. We posit that fundamental causal principles may already have been uncovered, and we offer a study that tests the process from exposure to these principles to improved mental health. The results appear to supp…
Realizing Improved Mindfulness/Flow/Mental Health Through Understanding Three Spiritual Principles
A new spiritual understanding commonly known as the Three Principles proposes that mindfulness/flow/mental health is people’s most natural state and can be realized and sustained by everyone via insights gained through understanding three spiritual principles—Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought. We test this proposition for people exposed to the intervention grounded in these principles. The results appear to support our prediction that in…
The antecedents of job involvement: An exploratory study among Chinese prison staff
The Efficacy of Principle-Based Correctional Counseling for Improving the Self-Control and Mental Health of People Incarcerated for Sexual Violence
This study is the first to test the efficacy of principle-based correctional counseling (PBCC) for improving the self-control and mental health of people incarcerated for sexual violence (SV). A total of 132 males incarcerated for SV were assigned to a treatment group that received cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) supplemented with intensive PBCC and a waitlist control group that received only CBT. Results using paired t -tests and an analysis of…
Realizing the power of thought and innate mental health: Two overlooked ingredients for resolving traumatic memories
We use the logic of the spiritual Principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought to describe two often overlooked ingredients for the resolution of traumatic memories – the power of Thought and innate mental health. We first review the three Principles and use their logic to explain why these two typically unrecognized ingredients can improve and sustain treatment outcomes for people experiencing traumatic memories. Then, we use the log…
A psychospiritual understanding of childhood perfectionism
Several gaps in clarity in the childhood perfectionism (or CP) literature prevent a more precise understanding of CP and its precipitants, motivators, and maintaining factors and compromise the efficacy of its prevention and treatment. The author posits that these gaps can be filled via a sufficient level of two psychospiritual understandings: the Principle or power of Thought and innate mental health. First, several gaps in clarity in the CP lit…
A psychospiritual theory of general factor p
Research points to a single factor known as general factor p that can account for people’s liability to psychopathology, comorbidity among psychopathologies and the severity of psychopathology. Here, we speculate that this common psychopathology factor is an insufficient understanding of the way the human psychospiritual system (or HPS) works. We first describe the PrinciplesFootnote1 that we posit account for the operation of the HPS. Then we pr…
A Generative, Homeostatic Account of Psychological Experience: Reinterpreting Resilience, Distress, and Recovery Across the Lifespan
Exploring a psychospiritual theory of the general factor p: A qualitative analysis
An as-yet unidentified single factor, commonly known in the literature as general factor p, has been proposed to account for the liability to psychopathology, comorbidity among psychopathologies and the persistence and severity of psychopathology. This study offers a qualitative analysis of a psychospiritual theory of factor p, framed as an insufficient understanding of the human psychospiritual system as envisioned by Sydney Banks. Fifty-six par…
Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Mental health (6 works)