D'Arcy Reynolds

Assistant Professor

dreynolds@semo.edu
573.986.6761
Office:  Scully 405G

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Education

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Miami University
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, Miami University
• B.Sc. (Hon.), Psychology, University of Victoria

Courses Taught

• Abnormal Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Development of the Adolescent
• Introduction to Personality
• Psychological Development Across the Life Span
• Psychological Perspective on Human Behavior (Online)

Social Media

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/DArcy_Reynolds_Jr2
• https://semo.academia.edu/DArcyReynoldsJr

Research Interests

• Online Therapy, Therapeutic Alliance, Session Impact, Online Teaching, Professor-Student Rapport, Media Representations of Mental Disorders, New Age Therapy

Selected Publications

• Young, S. L., & Reynolds, D. J., Jr. (2016). "You can be an agent of change": The rhetoric of new age self-help in Enlightened. Western Journal of Communication, 81(1), 1-20.
• Reynolds, D. J., Jr., Stiles, W. B., & Hanley, T. (2015). The online calming effect: Does the Internet provide a more comfortable modality for conducting psychotherapy? In G. Riva, B. K. Wiederhold, & P. Cipresso (Eds.), The psychology of social networking: Identity and relationships in online communities (Vol. 2, pp. 17-28). Warsaw, Poland: De Gruyter Open.
• Reynolds, D. J. (2014). How do client and therapists in online text therapy experience their exchanges and relationship? Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine, 12, 123- 127.
• Reynolds, D. J., Jr., Stiles, W. B., Bailer, A. J., & Hughes, M. R. (2013). Impact of exchanges and client-therapist alliance in online text psychotherapy. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16(5), 370-377.
• Reynolds, D. J., Jr., Hanley, T., & Wolf, M. (2012). Reaching out across the virtual divide: An empirical review of text-based therapeutic online relationships. In B. I. Popoola & O. F. Adebowale (Eds.), Online guidance and counselling: Toward effectively applying technology (pp. 64-90). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Reynolds, D. J., Jr. (2014, June). How do clients and therapists in online text therapy experience their exchanges? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference, Washington, DC.
• Reynolds, D. J., Jr. (2012, October). Reviewing the evidence of whether a text-based therapeutic connection is possible online. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Gary, IN.