Diana Baumrind, Ph.D
Curriculum Vitae
Institute of Human Development
1215 Edward Chace Tolman Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-1690
(510) 642-3603
FAX (415) 642-7969Current Position:
Research Psychologist, Principal Investigator, Family Socialization and Developmental Competence Project, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley.Education:
Hunter College, New York,Psychology, Philosophy A.B., 1948
University of California, Berkeley, Psychology M.A., 1951
University of California, Berkeley, Psychology (Clinical-Social-Developmental) Ph.D., 1955
Cowell Hospital; Kaiser Permanente, Postdoctoral, Clinical Residency, 1955-1958
Honors:
August 1988 - G. Stanley Hall Award, American Psychological Association, Division 7.
1984-1988 - Research Scientist Award, National Institute of Mental Health
Grant Awards:
Methods of Assessing Effectiveness of Group Psychotherapy, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, 1955-1958 (Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley).
Effects of Child Training on Patterns of Adjustment, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, 1960-1966 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Patterns of Parental Authority, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, approximately $700,000; 1967-1974 (Department of Psychology and Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Family Socialization and Developmental Competence, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $279,070; and the W.T. Grant Foundation, $300,000; 5/1/74 to 4/30/77 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Family Socialization and Early Adolescent Competence, funded by the National Science Foundation, $316,600; 5/1/77 to 4/30/80, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, $150,000; 12/1/77 to 11/30/80 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Familial Antecedents of Substance Abuse, funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, $300,000; 12/1/77 to 11/30/80 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Family Socialization and Developmental Competence, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, $250,000; 10/1/80 to 12/31/83, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, $150, 000; 1/1/81 to 12/31/83 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Familial Antecedents of Adolescent Adjustment, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, $210,000; 1/1/84 to 12/31/86, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, $225,000; 10/1/84 to 2/1/87; (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Family Socialization and Developmental Competence Project: Familial Antecedents of Adolescent Adjustment, funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, $382,874; 4/1/88 to 12/31/91 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Archiving of the Family Socialization and Developmental Competence Project data. $45,000.00 as sub-contract from the Henry A. Murray Center, 1991-1993
The Discipline Controversy Revisited; funded by W.T. Grant Foundation, $134,000; 5/1/97 to 4/30/01 (Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley).
Major Professional Interests:
Family socialization and developmental competence; health and adolescent substance use; ethics.
Selected Professional Activities (subsequent to 1993):
A. Invited Lectures
Keynote speaker, Character and Competence conference, Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe/Harvard, November 19-21, 1993.
Invited participant and speaker at Public World of Childhood Project Conference, "Responsible Parenting: Generating competence and character in early adolescents", School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 16-17, 1994.
Invited speaker for the Chicago Consortium on Child and Family at Loyola University on "Socialization Effects in Cultural Contexts", Chicago, IL, April, 1995.
Invited discussant, Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, "Beyond the Schoolhouse Doors: Family and Community Influences on Growth of Literacy Skills", Indianapolis, IN, March 30- April 2, 1995; and at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 1995.
Invited speaker, "A blanket injunction against disciplinary use of spanking is not warranted by the data," presented at the conference on Short and Long Term Consequences of Corporal Punishment, American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago IL, February 9-10, 1996.
Invited speaker, "The disciplinary encounter: Contemporary issues," presented at the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network conference, Research on Discipline: The State of the Art, Deficits, and Implications, University of North Carolina, April 25-26, 1996.
Invited speaker, "From ought to is: A neo-Marxist standpoint" presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Symposium, "Revisiting the Issue of ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’ or Are there Plural Paths and Norms of ‘Development’?" held in Washington, D.C. on April 3, 1997.
B. Service to Governmental and Professional Organizations (1991 - present)
Conferences
Conference arranged by Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, "Why family research has not sufficiently impacted policy, what can be done to improve the situation, and what issues are important to future research on family policy?", August 8, 1991.
Invited participant and discussant, American Academy of Pediatrics, "The Short and Long Term Effects of Corporal Punishment", February 9-10, 1996.
Invited participant for a Task Force on Family Processes, MacArthur Foundation Research Networks on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood, January, 1996 and thereafter.
Invited participant and speaker, conference on discipline planned by The Family and Child Well-Being Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Chapel Hill, NC, April, 1996; paper entitled "The Disciplinary Encounter: Contemporary Issues".
Invited participant, Daedalus Conference on Parenting, held in Washington D.C., April 3, 1997.
Invited participant, Social Science Research Council Conference: "The free exercise of culture: How free ought it to be?" held in Washington, D.C. on April 5-6, 1997.
Invited address, 106th APA Convention (Division 24): "From Ought to Is: A Justification of moral conduct that is neither relativist nor universalist." held in San Francisco, CA, August 15, 1998.
Consultant
Consultant to the San Diego Foundation, with talk on November 12, 1998 to their board on the development of character and competence in schools, 1998-1999.
Expert witness for the Attorney General of Canada opposing an application by the Canadian Foundation for Child, Youth, and the Law to make any form of physical punishment illegal in Canada, 1998-present.
Current Editorial Service
Editorial Board:
Parenting: School and Practice
Consulting Editor:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Child Development
Developmental Psychology
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
American Psychologist
Psychological Science
Family Relations
Applied Developmental Psychology
Professional Memberships:
Fellow: American Psychological Association; American Psychological Society; Society for Research in Child Development; Society for Research on Adolescence
DIANA BAUMRIND Curriculum Vitae, November, 1999
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