Dante Cicchetti

Dante Cicchetti
Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nationality American
Fields Developmental psychopathology, Psychiatry, Developmental science, Molecular genetics
Institutions University of Minnesota (professor)
Alma mater University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; USA
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).

Dante Cicchetti is a leader in the fields of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology, particularly on the conduct of multilevel research with high-risk and disenfranchised populations, including maltreated children and offspring of depressed parents.[1] 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. Having received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Cicchetti began his graduate work at the University of Minnesota in 1972, where he completed a joint Ph.D. program in clinical psychology and developmental psychology. He was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1977 to 1985, where he served as the Norman Tishman Associate Professor of Psychology until he left for the University of Rochester in 1985. There, he was the director of the Mt. Hope Family Center for 20 years. Cicchetti is the founding and current editor of the academic journal Development and Psychopathology.

Major accomplishments

Cicchetti has played a pivotal role in defining and shaping the field of developmental psychopathology. While at Harvard, he began publishing important papers on emotional development, Down syndrome, child maltreatment, and on the development of conditions such as depression and borderline personality disorder. Then, 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 himself wrote a seminal, defining paper titled, “The emergence of developmental psychopathology.”[2] These efforts were critical in launching what was to become one of the most vital fields in all of developmental science. Subsequently, the emergence of the field was crystallized in 1989 with the publication of the first of the 9 distinguished volumes of the Rochester Symposia on Developmental Psychopathology,[3] as well as with the inaugural issue of the journal Development and Psychopathology. Without Cicchetti, the field of developmental psychopathology would not be what it is today, nor would our understanding of the causes and consequences of child maltreatment be what it is, nor would the progress of integrating disciplines be what it is, and nor would the lives of thousands of children and parents be as enriched as they are.[4]

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.[5] His work has opened new frontiers in several domains, including:

Cicchetti's research is funded by public and private institutions or agencies, including 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.

Notable 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).

Professional societies

Editorial duties

Selected works

Selections of books

References

  1. ↑ Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2005). Child maltreatment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 409-438.
  2. ↑ Cicchetti, D. (Ed.). (1989). Rochester symposium on developmental psychopathology: The emergence of a discipline (Vol. 1). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  3. ↑ Developmental Psychopathology by Dante Cicchetti, Donald J. Cohen ISBN 0471237353 (0-471-23735-3. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. C. B. Fisher & R. Lerner (Eds). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, CA ( 2004.)
  5. ↑ Curtis, W. J., & Cicchetti, D. (2003). Moving research on resilience into the 21st century: Theoretical and methodological considerations in examining the biological contributors to resilience. Development and Psychopathology, 15, 773-810.
  6. ↑ Cicchetti, D. (2002). How the child builds a brain: Insights from normality and psychopathology. In W. Hartup & R. Weinberg (Eds), Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect. Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Vol. 32 (pp. 23-37). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  7. ↑ Shonk, S., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). Maltreatment, competency deficits, and risk for academic and behavioral maladjustment. Developmental Psychology, 37, 3-17.
  8. ↑ Cicchetti, D., & Blender, J. A. (2006). A multiple-levels-of-analysis perspective on resilience: Implications for the developing brain, neural plasticity, and preventive interventions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1094, 248-258.
  9. ↑ Kim, J., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Manly, J. T. (2009). Child maltreatment and trajectories of personality and behavioral functioning: Implications for the development of personality disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 21(3), 889-912.
  10. ↑ Miklowitz, D. J. & Cicchetti, D. (2006). Toward a life span developmental psychopathology perspective on bipolar disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 18(4), 935-938.
  11. ↑ DeYoung, C., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Gray, J., Eastman, M., & Grigorenko, E. (2011). Sources of cognitive exploration: Genetic variation in the prefrontal dopamine system predicts Openness/Intellect. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 364-371.
  12. ↑ Toth, S. L., Rogosch, F. A., Manly, J. T., & Cicchetti , D. (2006). The efficacy of toddler parent psychotherapy to reorganize attachment in the young offspring of mothers with major depressive disorder. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 74(6), 1006- 1016.
  13. ↑ Flores, E., Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F.A. (2005). Predictors of resilience in maltreated and nonmaltreated Latino children. Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 338-351.

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