Dr. Aida Hutz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counselor Education at Boise State University. Born and raised in Brazil, she has been residing in the United States since 1991. Dr. Hutz obtained her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology, with a Counseling Psychology emphasis, as well as her master’s degree in Community Counseling, from Northern Arizona University. Her clinical experiences include completing an APPIC pre-doctoral psychology internship at a university counseling center and being a crisis counselor. Additionally, she has been involved in a therapeutic program taking youth to Brazil to serve underprivileged communities. Her scholarly interests include socio-racial consciousness raising, cross-cultural studies, and other areas related to counselor education.
Articles
Psychological Adjustment: Are Adopted Adolescents at Greater Risk for Negative Outcomes? (with Caroline Tozzi Reppold and Claudio Simon Hutz), Interpersona (2010)
During the last decades several authors have indicated that being an adopted child resulted in...
Understanding Ethnocultural Difference: College Adaptation Models (with William Martin), College Student Journal (2007)
The number of ethnocultural minority students pursuing a college education is not only currently increasing...
Relationships Between Ethnocultural Person-Environment Fit and College Adjustment: Some Implications for College Counselors, Journal of College Counseling (2007)
The authors investigated the relationship between students' ethnocultural person-environment (P-E) fit and college adjustmentThey hypothesized...
Books
College Student Adjustment: Relationships Among Perceptions and Coping with Barriers, Ethnic Identity and Ethnocultural Person Environment Fit (2010)
College student adaptation is an important variable in determining retention and success at the university....
Contributions to Books
O Que Aprendemos nos Estados Unidos com a Experiência de Inclusão de Estudantes Minoritários na Universidade: Sugestões para Apoiar Estudantes Cotistas em Universidades Brasileiras (with B. Midgett and M. Baldrige), Avanços em Psicologia Comunitária (2010)
Presentations