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| College: | Regis College |
| Degrees: | PhD (Loyola) |
| Email: | desmond.buhagar@utoronto.ca |
| Phone: | 416-922-5474 ext 243 |
| Teaching Category: |
Regular Tenure Stream
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| Appointment Status: |
Basic Degree
GCTS Associate Restricted
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| Research Interests: |
Practical Theology / Preaching / Religious Education
Ethics / Pastoral Care / Counselling
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Bio
- Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Clinical Supervisor, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
- Licensed Clinical Marriage & Family Therapist & Supervisor (LCMFT), Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH)
- Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor, Canadian and American Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT, AAMFT)
- Psychospiritual Therapist (PT) and Psychospiritual Therapy Supervisor-Educator (PTE), Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC)
- Clinical Fellow and Diplomate (Teaching Supervisor), American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC)
- Clinician and Supervisor in Private Practice
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Specializations
- Integrative, evidence-based psychotherapies and spiritual care
- Professional ethics in clinical care
- Trauma care
- Systemic family therapy
- Postmodern-constructivist psychotherapies.
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Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
First Author:
- Desmond Buhagar, “A Tripartite Model of Evaluation for Forgiveness: A Commentary on the Definitional Drift within the Science of Forgiveness.” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 45, no. 1 (2025): 56–64.
- Desmond Buhagar, “The Attachment Mapping Protocol (AMP): An Assessment and Treatment Tool for General Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy and Multifaith Spiritual Care,” Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 62 (2023): 4112-57.
- Desmond Buhagar, Ralph Piedmont, and Kari O’Grady, “The virtue of religious faith and its relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder in victims of torture: the unique outcomes of men and women,” Mental Health, Religion & Culture, vol. 25, no. 10 (2022): 991-1011.
- Desmond Buhagar, “The Forgiveness Interview Protocol: A narrative therapy writing-process model for the treatment of moral injury,” Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 60, no. 5 (2021): 3100-3129.
- Desmond Buhagar, “Cheston’s “Ways Paradigm” applied to pastoral counseling supervision,” Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry, vol. 31 (2011): 245–262.
Second Author:
- Way-Skinner, C. Buhagar, Desmond, “Traumatized and Traumatizing: Understanding Clerical Abuse through the Lens of Bowenian Systemic Family Therapy,” Integratus: Journal of Catholic Psychotherapy, 2(1). (2024).
- Thomas, Carla, M.; Buhagar, Desmond C., “The Satir Model of Family Therapy and Amoris Laetitia: Extending the Horizon of the Family as Domestic Church,” Gregorianum, 105(2). (2024): 325-349.