Danielle Godon-Decoteau
(she/her/hers)
- Assistant Professor of Psychology and Comparative American Studies
Areas of Study
Education
- BS, Bryant University, 2007
- AM, Mount Holyoke College, 2012
- PhD, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2018
Biography
I am a clinical psychologist whose research is informed by multicultural psychology. I use both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore how Asian Americans' understandings of racism affect their mental health. Most recently, our research lab has been examining how U.S.-born Asian Americans talk to their immigrant elders about race. I hope to produce scholarship that helps promote Asian American well-being by resisting internalized racism.
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Godon-Decoteau, D., Frye, A. A., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2024). Internalized racism and Asian American mental health. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 15(4), 329–341. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000347
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Godon-Decoteau, D., Benson, J. M., Sawdy, M. E., & Reynolds, J. D. (Taewon Choi) (in press). “I am a normal Asian American?”: Diverse ways that Asian Americans respond to an open-ended question about their racial identification. Asian American Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000344
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Suyemoto, K. L., Abdullah, T., Godon-Decoteau, D., Tahirkheli, N. N., Arbid, N., & Frye, A. A. (2022). Development of the Resistance and Empowerment Against Racism (REAR) Scale. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28, 58-71. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000353
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Godon-Decoteau, D. & Ramsey, P. G., (2020). Transracial adoptees: The rewards and challenges of searching for their birth families. In G. M. Wrobel, E. Helder, & E. Marr (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Adoption (pp. 238-252). Routledge International Handbooks.
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Godon-Decoteau, D., & Ramsey, P. G. (2018). Positive and negative aspects of transracial adoption from the perspectives of Korean transracially and internationally adopted individuals. Adoption Quarterly, 21, 17-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2017.1387209
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Godon-Decoteau, D., Ramsey, P. G., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2018). Korean transnational and transracial adoptees: Ethnic identity and sense of belonging and exclusion in relation to birth and adoptive groups. Identity, 18, 178-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2018.1487299
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Day, S. C., Godon-Decoteau, D., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2015). Effects of becoming a mother on the development of ethnic and racial identities in Korean transnationally and transracially adopted women. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6, 359-370. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000028
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Godon, D. E., Green, W., & Ramsey, P. G. (2014). Transracial adoptees: The search for birth family and the search for self, Adoption Quarterly, 17, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2014.875087
Spring 2025
Abnormal Psychology — PSYC 214
Advanced Methods in Qualitative Research — PSYC 315
Teaching Assistant — PSYC 500
Practicum in Psychology — PSYC 501
Supervised Research in Psychology - Full — PSYC 510F
Supervised Research in Psychology - Half — PSYC 510H
Senior Portfolio — PSYC 599
Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant — PSYC 500
Practicum in Psychology — PSYC 501
Supervised Research in Psychology - Full — PSYC 510F
Supervised Research in Psychology - Half — PSYC 510H
Independent Research Problems - Full — PSYC 606F
Independent Research Problems - Half — PSYC 606H
Psychology Honors - Full — PSYC 608F
Psychology Honors - Half — PSYC 608H