Dr. Chris Brownson is an Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His portfolio also includes University Health Services and the Center for Students in Recovery. Dr. Brownson was appointed as a Chancellor's Health Fellow at the University of Texas System in 2014, and he currently leads a $5 million project implementing after hours crisis counseling in all 14 academic and health institutions in the UT System as well as bystander intervention, alcohol prevention and early intervention, and collegiate recovery centers at the 8 academic institutions in the UT System.
Dr. Brownson is a past chair of the Higher Education Mental Health Alliance, the Section on College and University Counseling Centers of APA's Division of Counseling Psychology, and the Mental Health Section of the American College Health Association (ACHA). He is a past member of the Board of Directors of ACHA. He co-developed the Integrated Health Program at UT, which provides mental health services in the university's primary care clinic. He has been a program evaluator for several SAMHSA/GLS suicide prevention grants and was the National Mental Health Consultant to Teach For America from 2006-2016.
Dr. Brownson has been the director of the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education since 2004, and has overseen two large national studies on college student suicide, each involving 70 other institutions of higher education across the nation. Currently, Dr. Brownson is leading a longitudinal study with 18 other institutions of higher education looking at the intersection of psychological factors and academic success.
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology & Quantitative Methods, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
M.A. in Program Evaluation, University of Texas at Austin, 1997
B.A. in Psychology & History, University of Texas at Austin, 1992
Dr. Brownson is the director of the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education. Currently, Dr. Brownson, along with his counseling psychology graduate students, is leading a longitudinal study with 18 other institutions of higher education looking at the intersection of psychological factors and academic success.
Dr. Brownson's research, publication, and presentation interests include college student suicide and suicide prevention, collaborative care models of behavioral health in primary care, the intersection of mental health and academic success, gender, race, and ethnicity in college student mental health, the roles of professional organizations within college mental health, collegiate recovery, and fatherhood.
Chair, Early Education/Child Development Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education
Member, Editorial Board, Springer book series, Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice
Member, National Association for the Education of Young Children
Member, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
Member, Association for Childhood Education International
Member, Phi Delta Kappa
Brownson, C., Drum, D., Becker, M., Saathoff, A. & Hentschel, E. (2016). Distress and Suicidality in Higher Education: Implications for Population-Oriented Prevention Paradigms. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 30, 98–113.
Drum, D., Brownson, C., Hess, E., Burton Denmark, A. & Talley, A. (2016). College Students' Sense of Coherence and Connectedness as Predictors of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors. Archives of Suicide Research. doi:10.1080/13811118.2016.1166088.
Lytle, M., DeLuca, S., Blosnich, J. & Brownson, C. (2015). Associations of religious and racial/ethnic identities with suicidal ideations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and questioning individuals. Journal of Affective Disorders, 178, 39–45.
Wong, Y., Brownson, C., Rutkowski, L., Nguyen, C. & Becker, M. (2014). A mediation model of professional psychological help seeking for suicide ideation among Asian American and White American college students. Archives of Suicide Research, 18, 259–273.
Brownson, C., Becker, M., Shaddick, R., Jaggars, S. & Nitkin-Kaner, Y. (2014). Suicidal behavior and help seeking among diverse college students. Journal of College Counseling, 17, 116–30.
Brownson, C., Drum, D., Smith, S. & Denmark, A. (2011). Differences in suicidal experiences of male and female undergraduate and graduate students. Journal of College Student, 25, 277–294.
Brownson, C. (2010). Conducting research in college and university counseling centers. Mental Health Care in the College Community. England: John Wiley and Sons. doi:978-0470746189.
Texas Impact Award, Mental Health America of Texas (2016)
Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (2014)
Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas System (2013)
Foundation Research Award, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (2013)
Award for Excellence in Counseling Center Scholarship, Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors (2012)
The Eyes of Texas Award, University of Texas Students (2007)
Early Career Psychologist of the Year, American Psychological Association Division 17, Section on College Counseling Centers (2004)
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| 2017 | Spring | EDP 385C: 12-Acad/Stdnt Aff In Higher Ed |
