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 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.^[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.

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.”^[2] 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,^[3] as and the inaugural issue of the journal Development and Psychopathology.^[4]

Cicchetti's major research interests lie in the formulation of an integrative developmental theory to account for both normal and abnormal forms of ontogenesis.^[5] His work has incvolved several domains, including:

Developmental psychopathology.^[6]
The developmental consequences of child maltreatment.^[7]
Neuroplasticity and sensitive periods.^[8]
The impact of traumatic experiences upon brain development.^[9]
The biology and psychology of unipolar and bipolar mood disorders.^[10]
The interrelationships among molecular genetic, neurobiological, socio-emotional, cognitive, linguistic and representational development in normal and pathological populations.^[11]
The study of attachment relations and representational models of the self and its disorders across the life span.^[12]
Multilevel perspectives on resilience; and 9) multilevel evaluations of randomized controlled trial interventions for depressed and maltreated children and adolescents.^[13]

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).

Professional societies

Fellow, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

Selected works

Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2012). Gene by Environment interaction and resilience: Effects of child maltreatment and serotonin, corticotropin releasing hormone, dopamine, and oxytocin genes. Development and Psychopathology, 24(2).
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Oshri, A. (2011). Interactive effects of corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 1, serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region, and child maltreatment on diurnal cortisol regulation and internalizing symptomatology. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 1125-1138.
Cicchetti, D. (2010). Resilience under conditions of extreme stress: A multilevel perspective [Special Article]. World Psychiatry, 9, 1-10.
Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Toth, S. L., & Sturge-Apple, M. L. (2011). Normalizing the development of cortisol regulation in maltreated infants through preventive interventions. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 789-800.
Cicchetti, D. (2004). An odyssey of discovery: Lessons learned through three decades of research on child maltreatment. American Psychologist, 59(8), 4-14.
Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. (1999). Psychopathology as risk for adolescent substance use disorders: A developmental psychopathology perspective. Journal of Clinical Child Psychiatry, 28, 355-365.

Books edited

Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Theory and method (Vol. 1, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Developmental neuroscience (Vol. 2, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental psychopathology: Risk, disorder, and adaptation. (Vol. 3, 2nd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Attachment in the Preschool Years: Theory, Research, and Intervention by Dante Cicchetti, Mark T. Greenberg, E. Mark Cummings. ISBN 0226306305 (0-226-30630-5).
Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect by Dante Cicchetti, Vicki K. Carlson. ISBN 0521379695 (0-521-37969-5). Cambridge University Press.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.). (1995). Developmental psychopathology: Theory and method (Vol. 1). New York: Wiley.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (Eds.). (1995). Developmental psychopathology: Risk, disorder, and adaptation (Vol. 2). New York: Wiley.

References

↑ Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2005). Child maltreatment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 409-438.
↑ Cicchetti, D. (Ed.). (1989). Rochester symposium on developmental psychopathology: The emergence of a discipline (Vol. 1). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
↑ Developmental Psychopathology by Dante Cicchetti, Donald J. Cohen ISBN 0471237353 (0-471-23735-3. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
↑ Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science. C. B. Fisher & R. Lerner (Eds). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, CA ( 2004.)
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Shonk, S., & Cicchetti, D. (2001). Maltreatment, competency deficits, and risk for academic and behavioral maladjustment. Developmental Psychology, 37, 3-17.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Miklowitz, D. J. & Cicchetti, D. (2006). Toward a life span developmental psychopathology perspective on bipolar disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 18(4), 935-938.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Flores, E., Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F.A. (2005). Predictors of resilience in maltreated and nonmaltreated Latino children. Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 338-351.

External links

The Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota
Champion of Psychology:
Mt. Hope Family Center

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