Darrin Carr
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Darrin Carr is a doctoral candidate in the Combined Counseling Psychology and School Psychology program within the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at the Florida State University (FSU) College of Education. He currently serves as the Program Director for Career Advising, Counseling, and Programming at The Career Center at FSU. Darrin was awarded a College Teaching Fellowship (1999) and named a Peterson Fellow (2000) and Herb & Josie Rand Fellow (2001) by FSU’s College of Education. Darrin successfully completed his predoctoral internship requirement at Kansas State University Counseling Center in the summer of 2005.
An undergraduate alumnus of FSU in psychology, Darrin returned to FSU after obtaining a Master of Science in Instructional Systems Technology and serving six years on staff at the Indiana Career and Postsecondary Advancement Center (ICPAC) at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. While at ICPAC, Darrin worked with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to design and deploy one of the first Internet-based career information delivery systems. He also trained hundreds of Indiana guidance counselors on the effective use of the Internet in student career planning and developed groundbreaking print-based career guidance products used throughout Indiana schools and homes. In addition to investigating the relationships between technology and counseling, Darrin's interests include identifying personality variables which influence career decision making during life transitions and following the portrayal of psychology in the popular media.