Dr. Aida Hutz-Midgett is an Associate 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-Midgett 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
Untangling Hope and Optimism: Implications for Counselors (with Diana M. Doumas, Becca Dickinson, Angela Dondero, Mary Johnson, and Jenni Kimball), Vistas (2012)
Counselors often help clients gain insight that allows them to view the world through a...
Counseling in Brazil: Past, Present, and Future (with Claudio Simon Hutz), Journal of Counseling & Development (2012)
This article describes counseling in Brazil, which is rooted in career and vocational guidance. Although...
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...
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)
Understanding Ethnocultural Differences Related to College Adaptation for First-Year Undergraduate Students (with William Martin), College Student Journal (2007)
The number of ethnocultural minority students pursuing a college education is not only currently increasing...
Books
College Student Adjustment: Relationships Among Perceptions and Coping with Barriers, Ethnic Identity and Ethnocultural Person-Environment Fit, Faculty Authored Books (2010)
Contributions to Books
Brazil (with Marco Antônio Pereira Teixeira and Claudio Simon Hutz), Counseling Around the World: An International Handbook (2013)
Leaning into Discomfort, Voices from the Field: Defining Moments in Counselor and Therapist Development (2010)
I taught multicultural counseling for the first time when I was a 25-year-old doctoral student....
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
Teaching Applied Multicultural and Social Justice Advocacy Skills through Service Learning (with Jamie Jensen and Lexie Jahn), Rocky Mountain Association for Counselor Education & Supervision (2012)