Faculty

Douglas M. Teti
Ph.D., University of Vermont, 1984

Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Contact Information

S113B Henderson Building

dteti@psu.edu

Phone: 814-865-2644
Fax: 814-863-6207

http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hdfs/faculty/teti.html

Research Interests

Socioemotional development in infancy and early childhood, parenting, and intervention strategies designed to promote early development and parent-child relations.

Recent Publications

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.

Teti, D. M., & Candelaria, M. (2002). Parenting competence. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of parenting. Vol. 4 Applied Parenting (2nd ed., pp. 149ˆ180). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Teti, D. M. (In press). Socioemotional risks in early childhood. In N. Eisenberg (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes, Editors-in-Chief). Amsterdam: Pergamon Press.

Teti, D. M., & Huang, K.Y. (In press). Developmental perspectives on parenting competence. In D. M. Teti (Ed.), Handbook of research methods in developmental psychology. New York: Blackwell.

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.