About the Speaker
Dr. Teti is a developmental scientist whose research is focused on infant and early child development with a long-standing interest in socio-emotional development in early childhood (e.g., quality of attachment to parents), parenting competence and parenting at risk, how parenting is affected by parental mental health and contextual factors, and how parenting affects infant and child functioning. His current projects examine the joint, interactive effects of biological/medical and environmental/parenting factors on child development and parenting during the early years of life.