Deborah McMakin, Ph.D.

Graduate Program: Master of Arts with a Concentration in Counseling, Program Coordinator

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: FSU Inside-Out Course Facilitator & Faculty Contact

Community Collaboration: Accelerate the Future Foundation to provide community health workers pathways to mental health counseling degrees and state licensure

Deborah McMakin is a proud Framingham State alumna!  She earned a B.A. in psychology from Framingham State College in 1992. She earned an M.A. in Special Education and Human Development from the George Washington University (GWU) in 1996 and then taught English and Spanish in a special education day school. Deborah earned an M.S.W. from Boston University in 2000 and worked at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network as a group and individual therapist for ten years. She earned a doctorate in Education from UMASS Lowell in 2012.  She has taught undergraduate courses in psychology since 1998 and graduate courses in counseling psychology at Framingham State University (FSU) since 2000. She served as a faculty co-advisor for the Psi Chi Honor Society FSU Chapter for 10 years.

Her research interests include faculty and K-12 teachers' experiences with compassion satisfaction, self-care and burn-out, views of cultural differences within educational contexts and climate change. She enjoys collaborating with faculty on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects and has presented numerous Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects at local and national conferences, including college students’ experiences with peer editing and beliefs about climate change. Deborah is passionate about making education accessible to all and is writing an Open Education Resource (OER) faculty teaching guide to accompany an OER general psychology text with her colleague Dr Nicole Rossi. Deborah is the current coordinator for the FSU Inside-Out prison exchange program which brings incarcerated and non-incarcerated students together to take a semester long college course.

Education:

B.A. Framingham State University;  M.A. George Washington University;  M.S.W. Boston University; Ed.D. University of Massachusetts - Lowell

Courses Taught:

PSYC 101            General Psychology

PSYC 200            Psychology of Development

PSYC 259            Cultural Psychology

PSYC 291            Psychology Research I

PSYC 305            Human Relations

PSYC 318            Educational Psychology

PSYC 341            Group Dynamics

PSYC 391            Psychology Research II

PSYC 450            Empirical Research Thesis

PSYC 495            Internship in Psychology