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Douglas Teti ,
PhD.
Biographical Sketch Douglas M. Teti is currently Professor of Psychology at UMBC's Department of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1984 from the University of Vermont, under the direction of developmental psychologist Lynne Bond. His dissertation addressed the cognitive, linguistic, and social experiences preschool-aged firstborns create for their infant siblings during free play, and their relation to infant intellectual development. He was an NIMH Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah from 1984 to 1986, working with Donna Gelfand and Michael Lamb. This Fellowship, and Dr. Teti's collaborative efforts with Drs.Gelfand and Lamb, led to a long-standing interest in the developmental antecedents and sequelae of child-parent attachments in infancy and the preschool years. He joined the Department of Psychology of the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1986, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1993 and to the rank of Professor in 1998. He serves as the current director of the department's Applied Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program. Research, Grants, and Publications Dr. Teti has a long-standing interest
in social development in both low- and high-risk populations, and in early
intervention. Dr. Teti's work with Dr. Gelfand led to a 9-year collaboration,
two NIMH grants, and numerous publications and papers that examined relations
between clinical maternal depression and mother-child outcomes during
the infancy and preschool years. This project also evaluated a 9-month
early intervention program designed to foster depressed mother-infant
relations and infant development Dr. Teti's dissertation project
on sibling relations contributed to an ADAMHA FIRST Award that assessed
the impact of first-time siblinghood on firstborns' attachment to their
mothers, and more broadly the role of firstborn-mother attachment in the
developing sibling relationship during the secondborn's first two years.
Dr. Teti has recently turned his attention to the study of social and
intellectual development in preterm, low-birthweight infants in the NICU
environment and in the home, and of early intervention programs aimed
at facilitating their development. He is the recipient of a 5 year
(2001-2006) research grant from NICHD to evaluate a short-term, focused
intervention program targeting African-American pre-term infants and their
mothers and fathers. This project will also assess the role of parents'
states of mind regarding attachment, and commitment to intervention, as
moderators of intervention efficacy. Dr. Teti is trained in attachment
scoring systems for the infancy and preschool years, a certified coder
of the Adult Attachment Interview, and has been trained and certified
in the administration and scoring of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral
Assessment Scale. Dr. Teti is currently serving as an associate editor for Developmental Psychology and has served on the editorial boards of Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and Early Education and Development. He also has been an editorial consultant for the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development and frequently serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous developmental psychology journals in the field (e.g., Infant Behavior and Development, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Development and Psychopathology), for NIMH, NICHD, and NSF grant application review panels. Teaching and Mentoring To date, seven Ph.D.s have emerged under Dr. Teti's supervision from his laboratory, with two additional expected at the end of the 2001-2002 academic year. His graduate students' research interest has spanned both basic and applied developmental issues. Currently Dr. Teti actively mentors ten graduate students in UMBC's Department of Psychology, most of whom are affiliated with the Department's Ph.D. program in Applied Developmental Psychology. Dr. Teti routinely teaches four courses at the undergraduate level, including Developmental Psychology, Advanced Child Psychology, and Experimental Psychology I and II. At the graduate level, he teaches Social Development, Research Methods in Psychology, Infant Assessment, and Parenting and Development. He also mentors several students in the Clinical Psychology track of the Department's Human Services Psychology Ph.D. program. Selected Publications Teti, D.M., Gelfand, D.M., Messinger, D., & Isabella, R. (1995) Maternal depression and the quality of early attachment: An examination of infants, preschoolers, and their mothers. Developmental Psychology, 31, 364-376. Teti, D.M., & McGourty, S. (1996). Using mothers vs. trained observers in assessing children's secure base behavior: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Child Development, 67, 597-605. Teti, D.M., O'Connell, M.A., & Reiner, C.D. (1997). Parental sensitivity, parental depression and child health: The mediational role of parental self-efficacy. Early Development and Parenting, 6, 136. 1-14 (Invited) Teti, D.M. (1999) Conceptualizations of disorganization beyond infancy: An integration In J.Solomon & C.George (Eds.), Organization and disorganization in attachment: conceptual and methodological considerations. (Pp. 213-242). New York: Guilford. Teti, D.M., & Candelaria, M. (in press). Parenting competence. In M.H. Bornstein (Ed.). Handbook of parenting (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Lamb, M.E., Bornstein, M., & Teti, D.M. (in press). Development in infancy (4th ed.). Erlbaum
Contact Information Douglas M. Teti,
Ph.D. Office: 410-455-2414
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