Research Interests

I utilize a team approach to research. My aim is to enhance research skills in interested graduate and undergraduate students as we engage in productive scholarly activities.  
• White privilege attitudes: development and validation of the White Privilege Attitudes Scale (WPAS)  
• Rural mental health and trauma treatment: training and incorporation of distance technology to serve rural populations 
• Resilience in youth exposed to trauma: development and validation of the Life Assets and Values Assessment (LAVA©).

Teaching Interests

Infusing multicultural and diversity competency issues throughout the curriculum 
• Graduate courses: Counseling Methods, Counseling Practicum, Multicultural Counseling, Career Counseling, Group Theory and Dynamics, Advanced Psychological Testing, Experiential Techniques.  
• Undergraduate course: Dialogue on US Diversity

Publications 

Pinterits, E. J., Poteat, P.V. & Spanierman, L. B., (2009). Quantifying White Privilege Attitudes: Scale Construction and Initial Validation. Journal of Counseling Psychology , 56, 417-429.

Pinterits, E. J., & Voytek, J. (2008).  Diversity issues and Asian American Health.  In D. Halbur & K. H. Vess (Eds.) Essentials of Cultural Competence in Pharmacy Practice. American Pharmacists Association 

Neufeldt, S. A., Pinterits, E. J., Moleiro, C., Lee, T., Yang, P., Brodie, R., & Orliss, M. (2006). How do graduate student therapists incorporate diversity factors in case conceptualization? Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 43, 464-479 

Brown, M. T., & Pinterits, E. J. (2001). Basic issues in the career counseling of African Americans. In W. B. Walsh, S. H. Osipow, R. P. Bingham, M. T. Brown, and C. M. Ward (Eds.), Career Counseling for African Americans. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Pinterits, E. J., & Atkinson, D. (1998). The Diversity Video Forum: An adjunct to diversity sensitivity training in the classroom. Counselor Education and Supervision, 37, 203-216.  

Selected Presentations 

Pinterits, E. J. & Magelky, T. (2008, August).  Research Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Areas.  In J. L. Werth, (Chair). Facing Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Communities: Counseling Psychologists Respond.  Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston.  

Pinterits, E. J. (2008, March).  White Privilege. In T. Israel (Chair), The Many Faces of Privilege: Strategies for Research, Practice, Training, and Advocacy. Symposium conducted at International Counseling Psychology Conference, Chicago.

 
Pinterits, E. J., Magelky, T. E., Patel-Stamp, G., Schaffhauser, A., Szerlong, S. J., Green, J., & Page, K. V. (2007, August). Trauma Treatment Needs Assessment & Rural Mental Health: A pilot study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Juntunen, C. L., Stolz, C., Reis, R., & Pinterits, E. J. (2007, August). Let's talk about you and me: Experiences of minority-group supervisors. In M. V. Ellis and N. Ladany (Chairs). Hot Topics in Clinical Supervision and Training. Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Page, K. V., Szerlong, S. J., Patel-Stamp, G., Magelky, T. E., Pinterits, E. J. (2007, June). Deepening the Dialogue on White Privilege Attitudes: Using an Assessment to Enhance Multicultural Training. Paper presented at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, San Francisco.

Pinterits, E. J. (2007, February). Understanding White privilege attitudes. In E. J. Pinterits (Chair) Facing Dominance, Examining Privilege. Symposium conducted at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit IV, Seattle, WA.

Pinterits, E. J. (2006, October). Psychotherapy using EMDR for trauma in telemental health. Paper presentation conducted at the Northern Lights Psychology Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Mazer, N., Pinterits, E. J., & Schwarz, K. J. (2005, May). Alternative Measurement Strategy: Development of a Life Assets and Values Assessment as an Aid to Identifying Resilience Factors in Children and Adolescents Exposed to Trauma. Panel presentation conducted at the Child and Adolescent Needs & Strengths Annual Conference, Chicago.