Donna M. Gelfand, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251

Office: 634 Social And Behavioral Science Building
Office Phone: (801) 581-7472
E-mail: donna.gelfand@psych.utah.edu
Fax: (801) 581-5841

• University of Utah Distinguished Research Award


• President, Rocky Mt. Psychological Association


• Chair, American Psychological Association Publication & Communication Board


• Chair, Section III, Div. 12, APA (Behavioral Clinical Psychology)


• Chair, APA Committee on Children, Youth, and Families

Interests

• Parent-Child Relationships and Adjustment in Children with Type 1 Diabetes
  • What is good parenting and how can parents improve their caregiving?


• Prevention of Children’s Problem Behavior
  • How psychologists know what can be used in prevention programs.


• Maternal Depression and Effects on the Family
  • What is life like for a child of a depressed parent?

Research Statement

   Using a social cognitive approach, I study parenting and its relationship to the adjustment of children ranging in age from infancy to adolescence. Both well children and those with diabetes are studied. This research is conducted jointly with Professor Cynthia Berg, Professor Deborah Weibe, and graduate students.

• Gelfand, D.M., Jenson, W.R., & Drew, C.J. (4th edition). Understanding children's behavior disorders. Belmont, CA:Wadsworth Group. (An upper-division, undergraduate child psychopathology text).


• Gelfand, D. M. (2002). Infant mental health in a changing society. In G. Bremner & A. Fogel (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of infant development (pp. 136-164). New York: Guilford.


• Teti, D.M., & Gelfand, D.M. (1991). Behavioral competence among mothers of infants in the first year: The mediational role of maternal self-efficacy. Child Development, 62, 918-929.


• Gelfand, D.M., Teti, D.M., Seiner, S.A., & Jameson, P.B. (1996). Helping mothers fight depression: Evaluation of a home-based intervention program for depressed mothers and infants. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 25, 406-422.


• Jameson, P.B., & Gelfand, D.M. (1997). Attachment in preschoolers and maternal-child functioning among depressed and nondepressed mother-child dyads. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 517-536.

Off Duty Interests

• Hiking in the Wasatch Mts. (half an hour away!)


• Reading (mostly nonfiction)


• Cooking (I’m the assistant chef, cooking Chinese, continental, American cuisine)

• Social Developmental Page


• Clinical Developmental Page