Kenneth Dodge is the William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also the founding and past director of the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy and founder of Family Connects International.
Background
Dodge was born on July 20, 1954, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at Northwestern University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in psychology at Duke University in 1978. “Kenneth A. Dodge” , Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, retrieved 2014-January-28
Career
Dodge, a clinical and developmental psychologist, is a widely cited expert on the development, prevention and policy of aggressive behavior and chronic violence in children. “Kenneth A. Dodge”, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, retrieved 2014-June-2 He is recognized for transforming school-based interventions to improve children's social competence and early childhood interventions to prevent child abuse and promote early child development. Through his research, Dodge concluded that early physical abuse can result in biased patterns of social information processing in children, and in subsequent aggressive behavior and school failure.Dodge, K. A., Bates, J. E., & Pettit, G. S. “Mechanisms in the Cycle of Violence”, Science, 1678-1683, 1990-December-21. Retrieved 2014-June-2 Based on these findings, Dodge and his colleagues established the Fast Track Project, a comprehensive program designed to prevent young adult chronic violence by working with high-risk children to develop their academic and social skills. “Fast Track Overview” , Fast Track Project, retrieved 2014-June-2 “Early Intervention Reduces Aggressive Behavior in Adulthood”, Association for Psychological Science, retrieved 2014-June-13 He was also instrumental in creating Family Connects, a community-wide program to prevent child abuse and promote young children's school readiness by providing free in-home nurse visits to all infants and their families. Piloted in Durham County, North Carolina., “History” , Durham Connects, retrieved 2014-June-2 the program has been evaluated in two randomized controlled trials and a field experiment. Results include: decreased infant emergency medical care in a child's first year of life, decreased mother's anxiety, and decreased child maltreatment investigations.
Dodge has published more than 500 scientific articles, and is among the most highly cited developmental psychologists in the world. In 2003, he was recognized by the Web of Science as being among the top 0.5 percent of “Most Highly-Cited Scientists”. Dodge was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015. Dodge serves on the editorial board for the journals Clinical Psychological Science,Clinical Psychological Science , Association for Psychological Science, retrieved 2014-June-18 Parenting: Science and Practice, and Aggressive Behavior.Parenting: Science and Practice, Taylor & Francis Online, retrieved 2014-June-16 Aggressive Behavior, Wiley Online Library, retrieved 2014-March-24 Prior to arriving at Duke, Dodge served on the faculties of Indiana University, the University of Colorado and Vanderbilt University.
Selected service committees
President, Society for Research in Child Development (2019–2021) President-elect, Society for Research in Child Development (2017–2019) Member, Panel on the Working Class, Brookings Institution and America Enterprise Institute (2017–) Member, advisory board, Weiss Institute (2017–2019) Member, advisory board, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina (2017–) Member, council of directors, International Society for Research on Aggression (2016–) Member, American Psychological Association Task Force on Violent Media (2013– )“APA Task Force on Violent Media”, American Psychological Association, retrieved 2014-June-16 Member, board of directors, North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (2013– ) “Board”, NC Early Childhood Foundation, retrieved 2014-June-16 Elected Member, Board of directors of the Society for Prevention Research (2012– )“Board of Directors”, Society for Prevention Research, retrieved 2014-June-16 Elected member, Governing Council for the Society for Research in Child Development (2011–2017)“Policy & Communications” , Society for Research in Child Development, retrieved 2014-June-16 Co-author, Brief of Amici Curiae to the United States Supreme Court on Behalf of Petitioners, Evan Miller v. State of Alabama, Kuntrell Jackson v. State of Arkansas (January 2012)“Summaries of Petitioner and Amicus Briefs” , Equal Justice Initiative, retrieved 2014-June-16 Member, scientific advisory board, America's Promise (2004–2016)“Research Council” , America’s Promise Alliance, retrieved 2014-June-16
Awards
Selected works
Daro, D., Dodge, K.A., & Haskins, R. (Eds.) (2019). Universal approaches to promoting healthy development. [Special issue]. Future of Children, 29(1).
Dodge, K.A. (Editor) (2017). The current state of scientific knowledge on pre-kindergarten effects. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution. Bierman, K.L., Greenberg M.T., Coie, J.D., Dodge, K.A., Lochman, J.E., & McMahon, R.J. (2017). Social and emotional skills training for children: The Fast Track friendship group manual. New York: Guilford Press.
Dodge, K.A., Malone, P.S., Lansford, J.E., Miller, S., Pettit, G.S., & Bates, J.E. "A Dynamic Cascade Model of the Development of Substance-Use Onset". Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 74, Serial No. 294, 2009.
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