Bruce Wampold


Bruce E. Wampold is Emeritus Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. and Director of the Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Vikersund, Norway.

Education

Wampold received his B.A. in mathematics from the University of Washington, his M.Ed. in educational psychology from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a licensed psychologist and Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology and has an Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University.

Work in psychotherapy

Wampold is known for developing the contextual model of psychotherapy, which constitutes an alternative to the prevailing theory of the effectiveness of psychotherapy, known as the medical model.

Awards and honors