Rene v dawis biography

Rene Villanueva Dawis continues to be a major contributor to counseling psychology and to the psychology of individual differences. Born in the Philippines in into the family of a professor of agronomy, Dawis received his B.A.

(cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in and spent 2 years as an instructor in psychology at that same university. He then entered the graduate program in psychology at the University of Minnesota, where he completed his master&#;s degree in and his Ph.D.

in Dawis returned to the University of the Philippines for a year as an assistant professor, but his graduate adviser—the legendary Donald G. Paterson— recruited him as the research director for a new research project at the University of Minnesota under then Associate Professor Lloyd H.

Lofquist and his colleague George W. England.

The goal of the 2-year project, funded by the then U.S. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR), was to evaluate the effectiveness of the vocational re