Kristin Valentino
Kristin Valentino, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology and the Director of the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families at the University of Notre Dame. Valentino is also a licensed clinical psychologist. 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 maltreated 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 that 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. 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.
Ph.D., University of Rochester
(*Denotes Graduate Student Author, **Denotes Undergraduate Student Author)
Valentino, K. (2017). Relational Interventions for Maltreated Children. Child Development. 88, 359-367.
McDonnell, C.*, Valentino, K., Nuttall, A.K.*, & Comas, M.* (2016). Mother-Child Reminiscing At-Risk: Maternal Attachment, Elaboration, and Child Autobiographical Memory Specificity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 65-84.
Valentino, K., Hibel, L.C., Cummings, E.M., Comas, M.*, Nuttall, A.K.*, & McDonnell, C*. (2015). Maternal elaborative reminiscing mediates the effect of child maltreatment on behavioral and physiological functioning. Development & Psychopathology, 27, 1515-1527.
Nuttall, A.K.*, Valentino, K, McNeill, A.T.**, Comas, M.*, & Stey, P.* (2014). Autobiographical memory specificity among preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 50 (7), 1963-1972. doi:10.1037/a0036988.
Valentino, K., Nuttall, A.K.*, Comas, M.*, McDonnell, C.G.*, Piper, B.**, Thomas, T.**, & Fanuele, S.** (2014). Mother-child reminiscing and autobiographical memory specificity among preschool-aged children. Developmental Psychology, 50(4), 1197-1207. doi: 10.1037/a0034912.
Comas, M.*, Valentino, K, & Borkowski, J.G. (2014). Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Temperament: Longitudinal Associations with Executive Functioning. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 35, 156-167. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2014.03.005
Valentino, K., Comas, M.*, Nuttall, A.K.*, Thomas, T.** (2013). Training maltreating parents in elaborative and emotion-rich reminiscing with their preschool-aged children. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 585-595. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.02.010.
Valentino, K., Bridgett, D., Hayden, L.C. & Nuttall, A.K.* (2012). Child abuse, depression and executive functioning in relation to overgeneral memory among a psychiatric sample of children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41(4), 491-498. doi:10.1080/15374416.2012.660689
Valentino, K., Nuttall, A.K.*, Comas, M.*, Borkowski, J.G., & Akai, C. (2012). Intergenerational continuity of child abuse among adolescent mothers: Authoritarian parenting, community violence, and race. Child Maltreatment, 17, 172-181. doi: 10.1177/1077559511434945.
Valentino, K. (2011). A developmental psychopathology model of overgeneral autobiographical memory. Developmental Review, 31, 32-54. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2011.05.001.
Valentino, K., Toth, S.L., & Cicchetti, D. (2009). Autobiographical memory functioning among abused, neglected, and nonmaltreated children: The overgeneral memory effect. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(8), 1029-1038
