Faculty
Douglas M. Teti
Ph.D., University of Vermont, 1984
Professor of Human Development and Psychology
Program Areas: Family Science & Intervention
Contact Information
S113B Henderson Building
Phone:
814-865-2644
Fax:
814-863-6207
Department Web Page
Research Interests
Socioemotional development in infancy and early childhood, parenting, and intervention strategies designed to promote early development and parent-child relations
Current Prevention Projects
Project SIESTA (Role of Parenting in Infant Sleep Regulation and Sleep Problem Risk)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
Start Date: 2008
Project SIESTA (Study of Infants’ Emergent Sleep TrAjectories) is a study of parent and child contributions to the development of infant sleep patterns across the infant’s first two years of life.
Recent Publications
Hess, C. R., Teti, D. M., & Hussey-Gardner, B. (2004). Self-efficacy and parenting of high-risk infants: The moderating role of parent knowledge of infant development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 25, 423–437.
Huang, K.-Y., Teti, D. M., O’Brien Caughy, M., & Feldstein, S. (2006). Mother-child conflict interaction in the toddler years: Behavior patterns and correlates. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Candelaria, M., O’Connell, M., & Teti, D. M. (2006). Cumulative psychosocial and medical risk as predictors of early infant development, parenting stress, and parenting efficacy in an African American preterm sample. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Teti, D. M., & Towe-Goodman, N. (2008). Post-partum depression, effects on child. In M. Haith & J. Benson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of infant & early child development. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Teti, D. M., Killeen, L. A., Candelaria, M., Miller, W., Hess, C. R., & O’Connell, M. (2008). Adult attachment, parental commitment to early intervention, and developmental outcomes in an African American sample at double jeopardy. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Clinical applications of the Adult Attachment Interview (pp. 126–153). New York: Guilford Press.
Teti, D. M., Black, M., Viscardi, R., Glass, P., O’Connell, M. A., Baker, L., Cusson, R., & Hess, C. R. (2009). Intervention with African American, premature infants: Four-month results of an early intervention program. Journal of Early Intervention, 31(2), 146–166.
Teti, D.M., Mayer, G.E., Kim, B-R., & Countermine, M. (2010). Maternal emotional availability at bedtime predicts infant sleep quality. Journal of Family Psychology, 24(3), 307-315.
Countermine, M.S., & Teti, D.M. (2010). Parental adaptation and sleep arrangements in infancy. Infant Mental Health Journal, 31(6), 647-663.
Candelaria, M., Teti, D. M.& Black, M. (2011). Infants in double jeopardy: Predicting attachment from socio demographic, psychosocial, and health risk among African American preterm infants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(8), 870–877. [PDF]
Killeen, L. A., & Teti, D. M. (in press). Prefrontal cortical asymmetry in mothers to infant emotional states predicts maternal emotional availability with their 6-month-old infants. Development & Psychopathology.