Donald Dickinson

Professor Emeritus

I have taught in the School Psychology Program for over 25 years at The University of Tennessee and served as Director of the program for many years. My interests have been in data-based problem solving, consultations, student coping, and the influence of parenting on achievement and behavior. Along with students and faculty, I have developed several sets of materials that can be used for research and for training of parents. These can be found on my webpage and including the following:

1. The Home Environment Profile (HEP). This is a parental questionnaire that measures the parenting styles of Monitoring, Discipline, Problem Solving, Modeling Attitudes and Behaviors, and Nurturing.

2. The Academic and Social Coping Inventory (ASCI). This questionnaire measures student coping in stressful school situations. It measure both adaptive and maladaptive coping.

3. Easy Readers. This is a program for children who have severe reading problems and who have not responded well to phonics. It is based on the most frequently used words in children’s literature up to the 9th grade. There are 30 stories with worksheets available.

4. Parents and Tutors. This is a consultation/workshop training program for use by school psychologists and others in the training of parents. This program covers academic as well as social/behavioral topics. This program matched the HEP.

Updated 07/08/2005

Contact Information

1122 Volunteer Boulevard
435 Claxton Complex
Knoxville, TN 37996-3452

Phone: 865-974-8403
Email: ddickins@utk.edu

 

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Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3452

Phone: 865-974-8145
Fax: 865-974-0135