Douglas Guiffrida teaches courses in counselor supervision, counseling theory and practice, college student retention, and counseling skills and communications techniques for teachers and administrators. Prior to joining the Warner School faculty in 2001, Guiffrida served as an academic advisor at Syracuse University, a college counselor at LeMoyne College, and a school counselor with the SUNY Plattsburgh Upward Bound Program. He is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York State .
His primary research focus is to understand the experiences of minority college students in order to more effectively support and retain them. He is currently researching the efficacy of the cultural/motivational model of student persistence he developed, and is developing and researching constructivist methods for teaching counseling theories and supervising counselors in-training.
Guiffrida has presented at numerous colleges and professional conferences and the results of his research have appeared in leading counseling and student affairs journals, including Journal of Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, Research in Higher Education, NASPA Journal, Counselor Education and Supervision, and Equity and Excellence in Education. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of College Counseling and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling and Development, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association and NACADA, the journal of the National Academic Advising Association. |
