Ben Ogles received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from BYU. While completing his degree, he worked full-time at what is now Wasatch Mental Health. That work led him to seek out prerequisite undergraduate courses in psychology and applications to graduate programs in clinical psychology. Dr. Ogle’s PhD is from BYU, and his clinical internship was completed through the Indiana University School of Medicine. He then worked as a faculty member and university administrator at Ohio University for 21 years before coming back to BYU.
Research Interests
Dr. Ogles’ research is focused on psychotherapy process, outcome, and training. He leads a group of undergraduate students studying these topics with faculty members from Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), the Psychology Department, and graduate students. More specifically, his research interests include outcome measurement, common factors in therapy, and therapist effects. In recent years, Dr. Ogles and graduate students have worked on projects that look at the use of deliberate practice for training students in specific treatment-related skills, such as basic listening skills, handling common ethical situations, multicultural situations in therapy, and Socratic questioning in therapy. Dr. Ogles also has a side interest in sport psychology, especially the psychology of the marathon.
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