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Alex Pieterse
Assistant Professor

Will be at UAlbany
in Fall, 2008

Bio  -  Research Interests  -  Representative Publications  


ALEX PIETERSE. (PhD, 2004, Teacher’s College, Columbia University.)Dr. Pieterse will join the Counseling Psychology faculty in Fall, 2008. His area of research examines psychosocial aspects of racism including outcome variables such as health disparities and process variables such as racial identity. An additional area of inquiry focuses on the development of self-awareness and the application of social justice models in counselor training. Dr. Pieterse currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Black Psychology and the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.


Research Interests


Representative Publications

Pieterse, A. L. & Ray, K. Racism. (in press). In M. G. Constantine (Ed.). Encyclopedia of
Counseling, Vol. 4. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Neville, H. A., & Pieterse, A. L. (in press). Racism, White Supremacy, and Resistance:
Contextualizing Black American Experiences. In S. O.Utsey, (Ed.). Handbook of
African American Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Carter, R.T., Pieterse, A. L., & Smith, S (in press). An Exploratory Analysis of Racial
Identity Profile Statuses and Expressions of Anger in Black Americans. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.

Pieterse, A. L. & Collins, N. M. (2007). A socialization based values approach to inter-
cultural communication. College Student Affairs Journal, 26, 141-150.

Pieterse, A. L., & Carter, R. T. (2007). An examination of the relationship between
general life stress, racism-related stress and psychological health among Black
Men. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 54, 102-109.

Collins N, M. & Pieterse, A. L. (2007). Critical incident analysis based learning: An
approach to training for active racial and cultural awareness, Journal of
Counseling and Development, 85, 14-23. – Shared Authorship

Carter, R. T., & Pieterse, A. L. (2005) Race: Its meaning and related constructs. In R.
T. Carter (Ed). Handbook of Racial Cultural Psychology and Counseling (pp.41- 63). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.

Baluch, S., Pieterse, A. L, & Bolden, M. (2004) Counseling psychology and social
justice: Houston… we have a problem. The Counseling Psychologist, 32, 89-98.