David L. Vogel
Associate Professor
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Department of Psychology |
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Voice Mail: |
(515) 294 - 1582 |
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E-mail: |
dvogel@iastate.edu |
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Courses
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Psych
360 Normal Personality |
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Psych
621 Counseling Theories |
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Psych
621L Counseling Techniques |
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My research
interests focus on issues of diversity with specific attention to the role of stigma and
stereotypes on our interactions with others. For example, I have assessed the
stereotypes associated with women and men and with LGBT individuals and
have examined the affects that these stereotypes have in counselors’
professional activities. I have also investigated the role of gender role stereotypes in
the development of negative problem-solving patterns and relationship
satisfaction in couples. Recently, my interest in the stigma associated with
seeking professional help has led to an examination
of the factors
that influence individuals’ decisions about whether to seek professional help
and the development of interventions to reduce these psychological
barriers. |
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Selected
Abstracts - Psychological Barriers to Professional Help Seeking |
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Selected
Abstracts – Gender and Diversity Issues in Counseling and Training |
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Selected
Abstracts - Other Issues in Counseling, Supervision, and Training |
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Selected
Abstracts – Gender and Intimate Relationships |
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Psychological Barriers to Professional Help Seeking My interest in stigma and stereotypes
regarding gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation on the counseling
process has led to a recent focus on the factors that influence underserved
individuals’ decisions about whether to seek professional help for personal
problems. As many individuals who experience a problem in their life do
not seek professional help, a better understanding of the decision-making
process is essential. In particular, a better understanding of the important
variations in individual and cultural characteristics that can influence the
decision to seek care is needed. This work has recently resulted in
development a scale to measure the negative effects of internalized stigma
for seeking mental health services on self-esteem and the examination of
several psychological barriers to seeking help (e.g., public and self-stigma,
comfort self-disclosing, social norms, anticipated risks and benefits). |
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Stereotypes in Counseling, Supervision, and
Training In this line of research, I have
concentrated on measuring gender-based stereotypes, assessing their accuracy,
and examining the effects that these gender-based stereotypes have in
counseling, supervision, and training situations. For example, in a recent
study, I examined the degree to which counselors and college students held
stereotypes about women’s and men's emotions. Data from this work not only
showed strong stereotyping of emotion along gender lines, but also suggested
that these emotional stereotypes were associated with biases in counseling
relevant judgments. Building on this work, I have examined counselors'
perceptions of their female and male clients during initial intake sessions
and found that these perceptions in subtle ways conformed to societies'
stereotypes of women and men. I have also published a review in The Counseling Psychologist, which
examined the gender and emotion literature and discussed the influence that
emotional stereotypes have on the attribution process of counselors.
Recently, I have started to expand this work to
explore counselors’ beliefs about other stereotyped groups, in particular,
gay men and African Americans. I have applied aspects of social and
cognitive psychology to the study of this issue, by measuring reaction times
to stereotype-consistent and stereotype-inconsistent stimuli in counselor
populations. The speed at which an individual processes a stimulus is thought
to be faster if it is consistent with the individual’s underlying or implicit
schema for the stimuli. These types of assessments may be better indicators
of stereotypical assumptions, as they are harder to fake than self-reports.
Based on this initial work, I am currently examining the degree to which
multicultural training can alter these underlying or implicit stereotypes. I
believe these research topics are important for psychologists and educators
wishing to understand how to end prejudice and increase respect for
diversity. |
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