Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Consulting Scientist— Former Associate Director for Cognitive InterventionsPh.D., Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon UniversityE-mail address: d.dansereau@tcu.edu |
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Don Dansereau is presently a consulting scientist with the IBR. He was on the faculty at Texas Christian University from 1968 to 2011, where he was a Professor of Psychology and also served as Associate Director for Cognitive Interventions in the IBR. He was Principal Investigator for the CETOP (Cognitive Enhancements for the Treatment of Probationers) Project, a NIDA-funded research grant and he served as a research scientist on a number of other IBR grants. Dr. Dansereau taught graduate statistics and cognitive psychology, and his research focused on cognitive approaches for improving education, drug abuse prevention and treatment, and parenting. His primary contributions have been the development of spatial techniques for improving the communication between clients and counselors. This work provided the foundation for TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling and the creation of perspective taking games and tools (i.e., the Downward Spiral Game and the Thought Team) to increase creative problem solving. Grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Education, U.S. Army Research Institute, National Science Foundation, and National Institute on Drug Abuse have funded his research. His publications include over 180 papers.
Featured Interview
APA's summer The Addictions Newletter features TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling (TMEC) in “Bridging the Gap: An interview with Donald F. Dansereau” (PDF: 1.3 mg/20 pages).
Selected Publications
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Dansereau, D. F., Joe, G. W., & Simpson, D. D. (1993). Node-link mapping: A visual representation strategy for enhancing drug abuse counseling. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 40(4), 385-395. [Abstract]
Dansereau, D. F., Dees, S. M., & Simpson, D. D. (1994). Cognitive modularity: Implications for counseling and the representation of personal issues. The Journal of Counseling Psychology, 41(4), 513-523. [Abstract]
Dansereau, D. F., & Johnson, D. W. (1994). Cooperative learning. (Chapter 5). In D. Druckman & R. A. Bjork (Eds.), Learning, remembering, believing: Enhancing human performance (pp. 83-111; references pp. 319-327). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Dansereau, D. F., Joe, G. W., & Simpson, D. D. (1995). Attentional difficulties and the effectiveness of a visual representation strategy for counseling drug-addicted clients. International Journal of the Addictions, 30(4), 371-386. [Abstract]
Dansereau, D. F., Dees, S. M., Greener, J. M., & Simpson, D. D. (1995). Node-link mapping and the evaluation of drug abuse counseling sessions. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 9(3), 195-203. [Abstract]
Blankenship, J. & Dansereau, D. F. (2000). The effect of animated node-link displays on information recall and session evaluation. Journal of Experimental Education, 68(4), 293-308. [Abstract]
Bahr, G. S., & Dansereau, D. F. (2001). Bilingual knowledge maps (BiK-Maps) in second language vocabulary learning. Journal of Experimental Education, 70(1), 5-24.
Newbern, D. & Dansereau, D. F. (2001). Evolutions in scripted co-operative learning: Emotional competence. In N. Falchikov (Ed.), Learning together: Peer tutoring in higher education (pp. 257-261). London: Routledge Falmer.
Dansereau, D. F., & Dees, S. M. (2002). Mapping training: The transfer of a cognitive technology for improving counseling. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 22(4), 219-230. [Abstract]
Czuchry, M., & Dansereau, D. F. (2003). A model of the effects of node-link mapping on drug abuse counseling. Addictive Behaviors, 28(3), 537-549. [Abstract]
Czuchry, M., & Dansereau, D. F. (2003). Cognitive skills training: Impact on drug abuse counseling and readiness for treatment. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 29(1), 1-18. [Abstract]
Czuchry, M., & Dansereau, D. F. (2005). Using motivational activities to facilitate treatment involvement and reduce risk. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 37(1), 7-13. [Abstract]
Dansereau, D. F. (2005). Node-link mapping principles for visualizing knowledge and information. In S. O. Tergan & T. Keller (Eds.), Knowledge visualization and information visualization -- Searching for synergies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3426 (pp. 61-81). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Dansereau, D. F., & Simpson, D. D. (2009). A picture is worth a thousand words: The case for graphic representations. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 40(1), 104-110. [Abstract].