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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
will hold 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.
He has received several awards, including the two highest
honors of the Developmental Division of the American
Psychological Association (APA), the G. Stanley Hall Award and
the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award to be presented in 2006 for his
lifetime contributions to the science and applications of
developmental science. In 2004, he received the APA Senior
Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in
the Public Interest. 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.
“I’m very excited about coming back to the University of
Minnesota where I did my graduate work,” Cicchetti says. “I look
forward to building an exciting interdisciplinary center to help
the university and the city of Minneapolis.”
Recent publications
Cicchetti, D. (in press). Ethological case study: Infant abuse
among rhesus monkeys – A commentary. In C. Worthman, P. Plotsky,
D. Schechter, & C. Cummings (Eds.), Formative Experiences:
The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental
Psychobiology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cicchetti, D., & Curtis, W. J. (in press). 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. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (in press). A developmental
psychopathology perspective on adolescent depression. In S.
Nolen-Hoeksema & L. Hilt (Eds.) Handbook of Adolescent
Depression. New York: Taylor & Francis.
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.
Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.) (in press).
Stress, trauma, and children’s memory development:
Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical, and legal perspectives.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Valentino, K., Cicchetti, D., Toth, K., & Rogosch, F. A. (in
press). True and false recall and dissociation among maltreated
children: The role of self-schema. Development and
Psychopathology.
Valentino, K., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Toth, S. L. (in
press). Memory, maternal representations and internalizing
symptomatology among abused, neglected and nonmaltreated
children. Child Development.
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.
Cicchetti, D., & Valentino, K. (2007). Toward the application of
a multiple-levels-of-analysis perspective to research in
development and psychopathology. In A. S. Masten (Ed.),
Multilevel dynamics in developmental psychopathology: The
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 34, pp.
243-284). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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.
Granger, D. A., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Hibel, L. C.,
Teisl, M., & Flores, E. (2007). Blood contamination in
children’s saliva: Prevalence, stability and impact on the
measurement of salivary cortisol, testosterone and
dehydroepiandosterone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32,
724-733.
Maughan, A., Cicchetti, D., Toth, S. L., & Rogosch, F. A.
(2007). Early-occurring maternal depression and maternal
sensitivity in predicting young children's emotional regulation
and socioemotional difficulties. Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology, 35(5), 685-703.
Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S.L. (2006). A developmental
psychopathology perspective on preventive interventions with
high risk children and families. In A. Renninger and I. Sigel
(Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology (6th Ed.). New York:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. (Eds.). (2006). Developmental
Psychopathology (2nd ed.): Theory and Method (3 Volumes).
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 (2nd ed.).: Developmental
Neuroscience (Vol. 2). New York: Wiley.
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 (2nd ed.).: Risk, Disorder, and
Adaptation (Vol. 3). New York, New York: Wiley.
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.
December 2007
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