Professor Kurtines received
his Ph.D. in psychology from The Johns Hopkins University. He is Professor
of Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Program in Life-Span
Developmental Science and Director of the Masters Program in Counseling
Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Florida International
University. He is currently the Director of the Youth Development Project in
the Child and Family Psychosocial Research Center at FIU. Professor Kurtines
has been a visiting faculty member in the Department of Psychology at
University of Texas at Austin, in the School of Education at Harvard
University, a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Education
and Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and a Visiting Professor at Kobe
Shinwa Women's University, Kobe, Japan.
Within the field of
lifespan developmental science, Dr. Kurtines' areas of scholarly and
research interest include social and personality development, positive
development, and moral development across the life span. Within the field of
applied developmental and intervention science, they include outreach
research and the development of community supported psycho-social and
psycho-educational positive development interventions across the lifespan.
He has received many awards for his teaching and research, including the
Award for Research Excellence from the Southeastern Psychological
Association in 1978 and the award for Scholarship/Research Excellence from
Florida International University in 1989, Award for Teaching Excellence,
Florida International University in 1995, the Professorial Excellence Award,
Florida International University in 1997, and he was elected a Fellow in the
American Psychological Association (Div. 7) in 1995. Professor Kurtines has
also been Investigator and/or Senior Research Scientist on many large grants
funded by federal agencies such as NIDA, NIMH, and NIH.
Professor Kurtines has published many books and monographs including:
·
Morality, Moral Behavior and Moral Development (Wiley,
1984) with J. L. Gewirtz which has been translated into Italian, Indonesian,
and Japanese;
·
Moral Development Through Social Interaction (Wiley,
1987) with J. L. Gewirtz;
·
Breakthroughs in Family Therapy with Behavior Problem and
Drug Abusing Youth (Springer, 1989) with J. Szapocznik;
·
Intersections with Attachment (Erlbaum, 1991) with J.
L. Gewirtz;
·
Handbook of Moral Behavior and Development: Theory,
Research, and Application: Vols. 1-3 (Erlbaum, 1991) with J. L. Gewirtz;
·
The Role of Values in Psychology and Human Development
(Wiley, 1991) with M. Azmitia and J. L. Gewirtz;
·
Moral Behavior and Development: An Introduction (Allyn
& Bacon, 1995) with J. L. Gewirtz;
·
Anxiety and Phobic Disorders: A Pragmatic Approach
(Plenum, 1997) with W. K. Silverman;
·
Promoting Positive Youth Development: New Directions in
Developmental Theory, Methods, and Research, Journal of Adolescent Research
SPECIAL ISSUE, Volume 23, No. 3 (Sage, 2008). (with M. J. Montgomery)
He has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and
other scholarly publications.
[Dr. Kurtines
Curriculum Vita]
