Dante Cicchetti
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| 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. 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.
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.
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.
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