Papers by Douglas guiffrida
Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2014
African American students and former students from a predominantly White institution (PWI) were i... more African American students and former students from a predominantly White institution (PWI) were interviewed to understand their perceptions regarding the impact of their families on their academic achievement and persistence. The characteristics of families that students perceived to support and hinder their academic success at college are described along with implications for improving African American college student retention theory and practice.
Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communi... more Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communities face additional challenges compared to urban and suburban students when transitioning to large colleges and universities. Research that describes these additional challenges is presented along with implications for student support and retention professionals at large colleges and universities to effectively support and retain their rural students.
Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communi... more Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communities face additional challenges compared to urban and suburban students when transitioning to large colleges and universities. Research that describes these additional challenges is presented along with implications for student support and retention professionals at large colleges and universities to effectively support and retain their rural students.
Journal of Constructivist Psychology
Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communi... more Results of this review of higher education research suggest that students from rural home communities face additional challenges compared to urban and suburban students when transitioning to large colleges and universities. Research that describes these additional challenges is presented along with implications for student support and retention professionals at large colleges and universities to effectively support and retain their rural students.
Results of this review of college student retention research suggest that students from rural com... more Results of this review of college student retention research suggest that students from rural communities face additional challenges adjusting to large colleges and universities compared to students from urban and suburban areas. Research that describes the additional challenges faced by rural students while transitioning to large institutions is presented. Implications are provided to assist rural school counselors in helping their students select colleges that meet their needs and prepare for their experiences at large colleges and universities.
Research from higher education and cultural studies that has examined the African American colleg... more Research from higher education and cultural studies that has examined the African American college student experience at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) is presented with a focus on providing an understanding of how African American college students' relationships with faculty, family, friends from home, and peers in African American student organizations can become either assets or liabilities to their academic achievement and persistence. Implications for counseling practice are provided to assist secondary school-based counselors in preparing their African American students for the academic and socio-cultural challenges they will face when transitioning to PWIs. Implications are also provided for counselors working in college counseling centers, career counseling centers, and academic advising and retention programs at PWIs to effectively support and retain their African American college students.
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2008
Research indicates that reasons for attending college influence college success and that college ... more Research indicates that reasons for attending college influence college success and that college students of color (CSC) can be motivated to attend college for different reasons than White college students (WCS). The Need for Relatedness at College Questionnaire (NRC-Q) was developed and tested to provide an instrument for identifying and understanding the various ways in which needs for relatedness, a salient motivator for many CSC, affect college success. On the basis of the recommendation from D. cultural critique of V. Tinto's (1993) theory, the scale was developed with a self-determination theory (E. L. Deci & M. R. Ryan, 1991) perspective. Results support the content validity, internal consistency, temporal stability, and construct validity of the scale items, and a confirmatory factor analysis supported the underlying structures of the scale. Results also suggest that college students' needs for relatedness at home are more complex than previous research has suggested.
). The emergence model: An alternative pedagogy for facilitating selfreflection and theoretical f... more ). The emergence model: An alternative pedagogy for facilitating selfreflection and theoretical fit in counseling students. Counselor Education and Supervision, 44, Emergence Model 2 Abstract Counselor education literature that has focused on student acquisition of theoretical orientations is critically reviewed in this paper to identify the potential of these practices to facilitate theoretical fit and critical self-reflection among students. Two reflective, awareness-based pedagogical models, radical constructivism and transformative learning (Meizerow, 1997), are also examined. The author concludes by briefly outlining an alternative pedagogical framework called the emergence model, which may enhance the ability of counselor educators to facilitate self-reflection and theoretical fit among counseling students.
Journal of College Counseling, 2008
Journal of College Counseling, 2001
An overview for college counselors of the literature on bulimia treatment outcomes is presented f... more An overview for college counselors of the literature on bulimia treatment outcomes is presented for purposes of screening, treatment, and referral. Pretreatment characteristics that seem amenable to success in brief therapy are outlined, as are those that do not lead to a positive outcome.
The Heroic Supervisor: Using the Hero's Journey to Facilitate Development in Supervisors-in-Training
The Clinical Supervisor, 2014
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Need for Relatedness at College Questionnaire—Revised
PsycTESTS Dataset, 2000
Journal of College Counseling, 2006
This is the 2nd of 2 articles in which the editors provide suggestions for authors who are consid... more This is the 2nd of 2 articles in which the editors provide suggestions for authors who are considering submitting manuscripts to the Journal of College Counseling (JCC). The editors describe guidelines for writing manuscripts for the Professional Issues and Innovative Practice sections of JCC.
The Review of Higher Education, 2006
How Involvement in African American Student Organizations Supports and Hinders Academic Achievement
NACADA Journal, 2004
The perspectives of 84 African American students attending a predominantly White institution (PWI... more The perspectives of 84 African American students attending a predominantly White institution (PWI) were qualitatively analyzed to identify the conditions under which African American student organizations were perceived as assets and liabilities to academic success. Results ...
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Papers by Douglas guiffrida