Adam McGuire is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Tyler. He teaches and mentors masters and doctoral students in the Department of Psychology and Counseling. He is the Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology PhD Program and has a dual appointment as a Research Investigator at the VA VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans. At UT Tyler, Dr. McGuire teaches a clinical foundations course that prepares students for clinical practicum work, and a veteran seminar course that incorporates a community-based project to help students learn more about veteran and military culture from veterans themselves. He also teaches advanced and multivariate statistics courses for the clinical psychology graduate programs.

Dr. McGuire’s research aims to identify ways in which positive psychology constructs can be integrated into the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related outcomes for veterans such as depression, anxiety, and moral injury. As the Director of the ELEVATE Research Lab, his work primarily focuses on examining moral elevation—feeling uplifted and inspired by others’ virtuous behavior—as a potential therapeutic tool for PTSD in veterans. Dr. McGuire works with students in the lab to better understand how to best elicit elevation in veterans with trauma-related distress and how it can be used most effectively to facilitate trauma recovery.