Kristin Valentino
Director, Veldman Family Psychology Clinic
- Office
- E560 Corbett Family Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - kvalent1@nd.edu
Director, Veldman Family Psychology Clinic
Clinical Area Director
Professor
William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families Collegiate Chair, Faculty Fellow, Eck Institute for Global Health; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives
Research and teaching interests
Research interests: child maltreatment, developmental psychopathology, early adversity, parent-child interactions, memory, interventions, racial discrimination Teaching interests: community-based learning, practica, service-learning
Biography
Dr. Kristin Valentino is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Valentino is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Valentino’s program of research addresses how adversity affects child development with a focus on the caregiving behaviors that may promote risk and/or resilience among maltreating families. She evaluates how interventions may be designed to improve caregiving and, in turn, to improve developmental outcomes for maltreated children. Guiding her research is a developmental psychopathology perspective which emphasizes the interface between normal and atypical development and employs a multiple-levels-of analysis approach towards the study of child development and child psychopathology. Dr. Valentino is the President-Elect for the American Psychological Association Division 37 Section on Child Maltreatment. She serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Child Maltreatment and as a member of the National Institute of Health’s Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention Study Section.