美MacIntire, 博士学位, teaches courses in Psychology, including Human Growth and Development, 学习与行为, 体育运动心理学, 变态心理学, 和面试心理学. She works with students from a Humanistic perspective, seeking to help them find their inner drive to learn and grow. MacIntire enjoys helping students find ways to connect the material to their own majors or solve problems in the world outside the classroom. She enjoys mentoring students on their way to becoming 心理健康 or other social service providers. As a licensed psychologist with additional training in 体育运动心理学, 老年医学, 和职业咨询, MacIntire's research interests vary across the clinical, 咨询, 职业生涯, 运动领域. Some of her recent research interests include 1) burnout and work-life balance among social service, 心理健康, 医疗, 体育工作人员, 2) access and utilization of 心理健康 services, 3) the psychological side of physical health, 4) the impact of 心理健康 on work, 体育与学术.
MacIntire taught her first college courses in 2004, which taught her 2 critical things: 1) Learning is a collaborative endeavor, 不是单向表演. 2) Humility and kindness go a long way in the classroom. 课堂外, she is a licensed psychologist, where her primary foci are on psychological assessment, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for treatment, helping athletes address concerns in both sport and life, and fostering her supervisees on their journey to becoming 心理健康 providers.
She believes her teaching style may be best described as passionate and humanistic. She approaches students with respect and optimism in hopes that it helps to build the foundation they need to believe in themselves. MacIntire looks forward to learning from her students and to seeing their feedback as both courageous and a gift, as she endeavors to reach them in the most effective and helpful way. She gets her students to take their learning beyond the classroom by asking them to pose solutions to real problems at their workplaces, 在他们的社区里, or just generally in our world by using psychological principles and ideas. She encourages her students to think critically and she embraces their courage when they question the status quo. MacIntire teaches them how to source data on their own and how to think critically about how the research was conducted.
MacIntire also works as a licensed psychologist, 参与当地活动, state and national efforts to improve access to 心理健康 services, and volunteers with local events regularly.