Carey Dimmitt
Director, Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation
Program Coordinator, School Counselor Education
Contact details
Location
Furcolo Hall
813 N Pleasant St
Amherst, MA 01003
United States
About
Dr. Dimmitt is the Director of the Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation (CSCORE) and a professor in the School Counseling Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her scholarship focuses on evidence-based school counseling practices, school counseling curriculum development, metacognition, and systemic change in educational institutions. Dr. Dimmitt is the Co-Coordinator of the annual National Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference. She is the co-author of the books Evidence-Based School Counseling: Making a Difference with Data-Driven Practices (Corwin, 2007) and the School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner (Wiley, 2012). Dr. Dimmitt also has co-authored chapters on metacognition in education for the APA Educational Psychology Handbook (APA, 2012) and the Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 7: Educational Psychology (Wiley, 2012). She has published in the journals Professional School Counselor, Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation, Counselor Education and Supervision, Elementary School Journal, and Computers in the Schools. Dr. Dimmitt served as the Counseling Content Expert for ERIC from 2007-2014. Professor Dimmitt won the University-level, student-nominated Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011.