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Christopher J. Trentacosta

Christopher J. Trentacosta

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
6848
World Ranking
9752
National Ranking
5151

Overview

Christopher J. Trentacosta is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research spans a variety of topics within psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on developmental science and child and adolescent development.

Their publication record includes contributions to prominent journals and edited volumes, with recent papers covering diverse themes such as environmental contaminants in child development and mental health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Selected recent papers include:

  • New directions in understanding the role of environmental contaminants in child development: Four themes, 2020, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
  • School support, chaos, routines, and parents' mental health during COVID-19 remote schooling, 2021, School Psychology
  • Manifesto for new directions in developmental science, 2020, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
  • Miswiring the brain: Human prenatal Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol use associated with altered fetal hippocampal brain network connectivity, 2021, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Hope as a Protective Factor: Relations to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Delinquency, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, 2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies

Frequent collaborators in Trentacosta's research include:

  • Moriah E. Thomason
  • Lanxin Ji
  • Marjorie Beeghly
  • Iris Menu
  • Lucy McGoron

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • School Psychology

Their main fields of study incorporate psychology and medicine, with subfields including clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, education, public health, environmental and occupational health, and social psychology.

Research topics frequently addressed by Trentacosta include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Best Publications

  • Kindergarten children's emotion competence as a predictor of their academic competence in first grade

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Carroll E. Izard

  • Emotion Knowledge, Social Competence, and Behavior Problems in Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review.

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Sarah E. Fine

  • Accelerating the development of emotion competence in Head Start children: Effects on adaptive and maladaptive behavior

    Carroll E. Izard;Kristen A. King;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Judith K. Morgan

  • The relations among cumulative risk, parenting, and behavior problems during early childhood.

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Luke W. Hyde;Daniel S. Shaw;Thomas J. Dishion

  • Modeling emotional, cognitive, and behavioral predictors of peer acceptance.

    Allison J. Mostow;Carroll E. Izard;Sarah Fine;Christopher J. Trentacosta

  • Emotional Self-Regulation, Peer Rejection, and Antisocial Behavior: Developmental Associations from Early Childhood to Early Adolescence.

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Client preferences affect treatment satisfaction, completion, and clinical outcome: a meta-analysis.

    Oliver Lindhiem;Charles B. Bennett;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Caitlin McLear

  • First grade emotion knowledge as a predictor of fifth grade self-reported internalizing behaviors in children from economically disadvantaged families.

    Sarah E. Fine;Carroll E. Izard;Allison J. Mostow;Christopher J. Trentacosta

  • Beyond Emotion Regulation: Emotion Utilization and Adaptive Functioning.

    Carroll Izard;Kevin Stark;Christopher Trentacosta;David Schultz

  • Emotion processes in normal and abnormal development and preventive intervention.

    Carroll E. Izard;Sarah Fine;Allison Mostow;Christopher Trentacosta

  • An Emotion-Based Prevention Program for Head Start Children.

    Carroll E. Izard;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Kristen A. King;Allison J. Mostow

  • Heritable and Nonheritable Pathways to Early Callous-Unemotional Behaviors.

    Luke W. Hyde;Rebecca Waller;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Children's Emotional Competence and Attentional Competence in Early Elementary School

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Carroll E. Izard;Allison J. Mostow;Sarah E. Fine

  • Anger Perception, Caregivers’ Use of Physical Discipline, and Aggression in Children at Risk

    Sarah E. Fine;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Carroll E. Izard;Allison J. Mostow

  • Moderators of outcome in a brief family-centered intervention for preventing early problem behavior.

    Frances Gardner;Arin Connell;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Adolescent Dispositions for Antisocial Behavior in Context: The Roles of Neighborhood Dangerousness and Parental Knowledge

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Luke W. Hyde;Daniel S. Shaw;JeeWon Cheong

  • Heritable temperament pathways to early callous–unemotional behaviour

    Rebecca Waller;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw;Jenae M. Neiderhiser

  • Antecedents and Outcomes of Joint Trajectories of Mother-Son Conflict and Warmth during Middle Childhood and Adolescence

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Michael M. Criss;Daniel S. Shaw;Eric Lacourse

  • Bidirectional Relations between Parenting Practices and Child Externalizing Behavior: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis in the Context of a Psychosocial Treatment and 3-Year Follow-up

    Anne Shaffer;Oliver Lindhiem;David J. Kolko;Christopher J. Trentacosta

  • Maternal Predictors of Rejecting Parenting and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

    Christopher J. Trentacosta;Daniel S. Shaw

  • Maternal Emotion Regulation and Children’s Behavior Problems: The Mediating Role of Child Emotion Regulation

    Laura M. Crespo;Christopher J. Trentacosta;Deane Aikins;Julie Wargo-Aikins

Frequent Co-Authors

Carroll E. Izard
Carroll E. Izard University of Delaware
Daniel S. Shaw
Daniel S. Shaw University of Pittsburgh
Luke W. Hyde
Luke W. Hyde University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Leslie D. Leve
Leslie D. Leve University of Oregon
Jenae M. Neiderhiser
Jenae M. Neiderhiser Pennsylvania State University
Jody M. Ganiban
Jody M. Ganiban George Washington University
Rebecca Waller
Rebecca Waller University of Pennsylvania
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Sean Phipps
Sean Phipps St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University

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