Nationality American Name Dante Cicchetti | ||
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Doctoral advisor Paul E. Meehl and L. Alan Sroufe Known for Psychopathology, Child Psychiatry, Developmental science, Developmental psychopathology, Multiple levels of analysis research Notable awards Scientific Merit Award from NIMH (1991-1996). Residence Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Books Emotion, Cognition, and Representation Fields Psychiatry, Molecular genetics | ||
Education University of Minnesota | ||
Dante cicchetti hup 2013
Dante Cicchetti is a scientist specializing in the fields of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology, particularly the conduct of multilevel research with high-risk and disenfranchised populations, including maltreated children and offspring of depressed parents. He currently holds a joint appointment in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s psychiatry department, and in the Institute of Child Development. He is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and the William Harris Endowed Chair.
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- Dante cicchetti hup 2013
- APS Award Address Maladaptation and Resilience in Maltreated Children
- Biography
- Accomplishments
- Awards
- Professional societies
- Selected works
- Books edited
- References
APS Award Address: Maladaptation and Resilience in Maltreated Children
Biography
Cicchetti received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. the University of Minnesota in 1972 in clinical psychology and developmental psychology. He was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1977 to 1985, where he was the Norman Tishman Associate Professor of Psychology until he left for the University of Rochester in 1985 where was the director of the Mt. Hope Family Center. Cicchetti is the founding and current editor of the academic journal Development and Psychopathology.
Accomplishments
While at Harvard, he began publishing on emotional development, Down syndrome, child maltreatment, and on the development of conditions such as depression and borderline personality disorder. In 1984, he edited a special issue of Child Development on developmental psychopathology that served to acquaint the developmental community with this emerging discipline. In that special issue he wrote a seminal, defining paper titled, “The emergence of developmental psychopathology.” Subsequently, the emergence of the field of developmental psychopathology was crystallized in 1989 with the publication of the first of the 9 volumes of the Rochester Symposia on Developmental Psychopathology, as and the inaugural issue of the journal Development and Psychopathology.
Cicchetti's major research interests lie in the formulation of an integrative developmental theory to account for both normal and abnormal forms of ontogenesis. His work has incvolved several domains, including:
Cicchetti's research is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse, the Office of Child Abuse and Neglect, and the William T. Grant Foundation.
Awards
Scientific Merit Award from NIMH (1991-1996), American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Research Career Achievement Award (1997), Nicholas Hobbs Award, Division 37 of the American Psychological Association, for Significant Contributions to Child Advocacy and Social Policy (1999), the G. Stanley Hall Award, from the American Psychological Association, for Significant Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology (2005), Urie Bronfenbrenner Award, from the American Psychological Association, for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society (2006), the Mentorship Award from the American Psychological Association (2008), Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (2011), AAAS Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011), Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize from the Jacobs Foundation (2012).