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Dante CicchettiProfessor Office: 186 Child Development Developmental psychopathology, developmental neuroscience, molecular genetics, child maltreatment, mood disorders, personality disorders |
Professor Cicchetti's major research interests lie in the formulation of an integrative developmental theory that can account for both normal and abnormal forms of ontogenesis. His work has several foci: 1) developmental psychopathology; 2) the developmental consequences of child maltreatment; 3) neural plasticity and sensitive periods; 4) the impact of traumatic experiences upon brain development; 5) the biology and psychology of unipolar and bipolar depressive diseases; 6) the interrelationships among molecular genetic, neurobiological, socio-emotional, cognitive, linguistic and representational development in normal and pathological populations; and 7) the study of attachment relations and representational models of the self and its disorders across the life span. Professor Cicchetti is also interested in the application of developmental principles to the assessment, intervention and treatment of "high risk" children and their families.
Cicchetti holds a joint appointment in the University of Minnesota Medical School’s psychiatry department. He holds the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and eventually the Harris Endowed Chair. He will also become director of a major interdisciplinary center involving collaboration between the university and the city of Minneapolis.
Before joining the College Cicchetti was the Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, N.Y. Cicchetti received a doctorate in clinical psychology and child development, with minors in behavior genetics, neuroscience and psychophysiology, from the University of Minnesota Department of Psychology and Institute of Child Development in 1977. He was on the faculty of Harvard University until he left for the University of Rochester in 1985. At Rochester, Cicchetti launched four major initiatives that have defined and established developmental psychopathology and founded and directed Mt. Hope Family Center for over 20 years.
He has received a number of awards, including several honors from the American Psychological Association (APA). In 1999 he received both the APA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Clinical Child Psychology Award and the Nicholas Hobbs Award for Significant Contributions to Child Advocacy and Social Policy. He also received the Senior Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (2004). Finally, he has received three of the highest honors of the Developmental Division of the APA: the G. Stanley Hall Award for Significant Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology (2005); the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society (2006); and the Mentorship Award (2008).
Cicchetti has published hundreds of articles, books, and journals that have had far-reaching impact on developmental theory as well as science, policy, and practice related to child maltreatment, depression, mental retardation, and numerous other domains of development.
Recent publications
Cicchetti, D. (in press). A developmental psychopathology perspective on bipolar disorder. In D. J. Miklowitz & D. Cicchetti (Eds.) Bipolar disorder: A developmental psychopathology approach. New York: Guilford.
Cicchetti, D. & Rogosch, F. A. (in press). Adaptive coping under conditions of extreme stress: Multi-level influences on the determinants of resilience in maltreated children. In E. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.). Coping and the Development of Regulation. A volume for the series, R. W. Larson & L. A. Jensenn (Eds.-in-Chief), New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Gunnar, M. R., & Toth, S. L. (in press). The differential impacts of early abuse on internalizing problems and diurnal cortisol activity in school-aged children. Child Development.
Cicchetti, D., Toth, S. L., Nilsen, W. J., & Manly, J. T. (in press). What do we know and why does it matter? The dissemination of evidence-based interventions for child maltreatment. In H. R. Schaffer & K. Durkin (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Developmental Psychology in Action. Oxford: Blackwell.
Cicchetti, D., & Gunnar, M. R. (Eds.). (2009). Meeting the Challenge of Translational Research in Child Psychology: Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 35). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2009). A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescent depression. In S. Nolen-Hoeksema & L. Hilt (Eds.) Handbook of Adolescent Depression (pp. 3-31). New York: Taylor & Francis.
Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2009). The past achievements and future promises of developmental psychopathology: The coming of age of a discipline. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,50,16-25.
Cicchetti, D., & Curtis, W. J. (2008). Maltreatment, event-related potentials, and memory. In Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.), Stress, trauma, and children’s memory development: Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical, and legal perspectives (pp.83-136). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Cicchetti, D., & Gunnar, M. R. (Eds.) (2008). Integrating Biological Processes into the Design and Evaluation of Preventive Interventions [Special Issue]. Development and Psychopathology, 20(3), 737-1021.
Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.) (2008). Stress, trauma, and children’s memory development: Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical, and legal perspectives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2007). Personality, adrenal steroid hormones, and resilience in maltreated children: A multi-level perspective. Development and Psychopathology, 19(3), 787-809.
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Sturge-Apple, M. L. (2007). Interactions of child maltreatment and 5-HTT and monoamine oxidase A polymorphisms: Depressive symptomatology among adolescents from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds. Development and Psychopathology, 19(4), 1161-1180.
Curtis, W. J., & Cicchetti, D. (2007). Emotion and resilience: A multi-level investigation of hemispheric electroencephalogram asymmetry and emotion regulation in maltreated and non-maltreated children. Development and Psychopathology, 19(3), 811-840.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Theory and method (Vol. 1, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Developmental neuroscience (Vol. 2, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Risk, disorder, and adaptation. (Vol. 3, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Curtis, W. J. (2006). The developing brain and neural plasticity: Implications for normality, psychopathology, and resilience. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Developmental neuroscience (Vol. 2, 2nd ed., pp. 1-64). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Toth, S. L. (2006). Fostering secure attachment in infants in maltreating families through preventive interventions. Development and Psychopathology, 18(3), 623-650.
Cicchetti, D., & Valentino, K. (2006). An ecological transactional perspective on child maltreatment: Failure of the average expectable environment and its influence upon child development. In D. Cicchetti & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology (Vol. 3, 2nd ed., pp. 129-201). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D. (2002). The impact of social experience on neurobiological systems: Illustration from a constructivist view of child maltreatment. Cognitive Development, 17, 1407-1428.
Cicchetti, D. (2002). How a child builds a brain: Insights from normality and psychopathology. In W. Hartup & R. Weinberg (Eds.), Minnesota symposia on child psychology: Child psychology in retrospect and prospect (Vol. 32, pp. 23-71). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2002). A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 6-20.