The APA's Hoffman Report implicated Koocher for his role in creating memos to justify sexual, physical and emotional abuse of prisoners.
[2] He later served as associate provost at Simmons, while continuing part-time service at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
[4] In September, 2018 he began serving as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Quincy College.
[2] Beginning in the early 1970s while still a graduate student, Koocher began studying children's understanding of death and loss.
[9][10] Koocher has developed an interest in the flip-side of the evidence based practice movement by studying discredited mental health theories, therapies, and assessment tools that have come into popular use.