Exclusive: Investigation prompts retraction of 17 studies from now-shuttered clinic

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The incident involving Dennis Kivlighan Jr., the editor in chief, and his colleagues will result in a total of 17 retractions across three journals, Spectrum has learned.Kivlighan, professor of counseling psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park, coauthored all eight papers with university colleague Clara Hill, professor of psychology. Charles Gelso, professor emeritus of psychology at the university, also worked on four of the papers. Kivlighan, Hill and Gelso were co-directors of the Maryland Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Lab, where the research was performed. The clinic had shut down as of 1 June, according to the clinic's website, but it is unclear why.