Victor Counted, Ph.D.
Dr Victor Counted is a Behavioural and Social Scientist whose main research fuse health, cultural, and social psychology. He is also interested in applying attachment theory to religion, and a leading scholar in the psychology of religion and place.
Dr Counted is the Head of Research & Program Development at Counted Solutions Australia and Fellow of the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University. He is also Research Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Applied Psychology and Religion.
Dr Counted has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Psychology from Western Sydney University, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Religious Studies from the University of Groningen. As an interdisciplinary scholar, his research examines quality of life outcomes, adult attachment experiences, place attitudes, spiritual care, religious behaviours, psychopathology, and global migration health.
New edited book on "The Psychology of Religion and Place" is out November 2019 via Palgrave Macmillan.
Featured Publications
The Psychology of Religion and Place: Emerging Perspectives.
Book published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019)
Experiencing God in a Foreign Land
Book published by the University of Groningen (2019)
The Role of Spirituality in Promoting Sense of Place among Foreigners of African Background in the Netherlands.
Published in Ecopsychology 11(2), 101–109.
Place Spirituality: an attachment perspective
Published in Archive for the Psychology of Religion 41(1), 12–25
A Space of Transition and Transaction
Published in Archive for the Psychology of Religion 41(1), 43–52
Sense of Place Attitudes and Quality of Life Outcomes among African Residents in a Multicultural Australian Society
Published in Journal of Community Psychology 47(2), 338-355
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