Victor Counted

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Victor Counted, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he also leads the Christian Flourishing Science Lab as Director. Counted is a Faculty Affiliate of Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. He has a PhD in Health Psychology from Western Sydney University, Australia, and a second PhD in Psychology of Religion from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and Editor of Springer’s Religion, Spirituality, and Health: A Social Scientific Approach book series. Counted has authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly publications that examines how psychological processes—particularly those related to social, spiritual, environmental, and neurological dimensions—shape human flourishing across cultures. His work explores how these dimensions interact to support, sustain, and strengthen health and well-being and how disruptions to these processes can lead to stressors or challenges that require adaptive responses. He also utilizes a unique integrative flourishing framework that integrates psychological science and practice with cross-cultural healthcare practices to develop evidence-based and theoretically-driven research interventions that promote health and well-being for individuals and communities. You can learn more about his 4-stage framework of the psychology of human flourishing on his page: https://vcounted.com/research/

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Associate Professor, Regent University
  • 2020–present
    Faculty Affiliate, The Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University
  • 2017–2021
    Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
  • 2015–2018
    Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University

Education

  • 2019 
    Western Sydney University, Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology
  • 2018 
    University of Groningen, Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies

Research Areas

  • Psychology Of Religion (170111)
  • Psychology (1701)
  • Mental Health (111714)
  • Environmental Sociology (160802)
  • Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience Not Elsewhere Classified (040699)
  • Urban Sociology And Community Studies (160810)
  • Religion And Religious Studies (2204)
  • Social And Community Psychology (170113)
  • Psychology Not Elsewhere Classified (170199)
  • Religion And Society (220405)

Honours

Doctor of Philosophy

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