Cynthia García Coll

Cynthia García Coll is a developmental psychologist from Puerto Rico who is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Child Development . She received her PhD from Harvard and teaches at Carlos Albizu University , where she is Deputy Director of the Institutional Center for Scientific Research . García Coll wrote more than a hundred publications, including several books.

job

García Coll is the assistant director of the Child Development Journal, a journal in the field of psychology and child development. She received her PhD from Harvard and in 2017 took the position of Deputy Director of the Institutional Center for Scientific Research at Carlos Albizu University in San Juan , Puerto Rico . She is Professor of the Clinical Psychology Program in Albizu. Before moving back to Puerto Rico, where she grew up, García Coll was a professor of education, psychology, and pediatrics at Brown University .

García Coll was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network “Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood” from 1994 to 2002. In 2009 she received the Cultural and Contextual Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development . She is a member of the American Psychological Association , and has served as President of the Society for the Study of Human Development .

García Coll explored a variety of topics, including the psychological resilience of children born to underage mothers and immigrants. She also researched the Immigrant Paradox, which shows that first generation immigrant children and adolescents are generally more academic and behavioral than later generations. First-generation immigrant children, despite falling behind in school, often outperform children born in America. García Coll found that immigrant children of Spanish origin who speak Spanish at home are better adapted than similar immigrant children in a home environment where no Spanish is spoken. Their work further shows that access to welfare and inclusion strategies for immigrants have a positive effect on the academic success of immigrant children. The graduation rate of children with at least one immigrant parent was 5.3% higher in states where immigrant families can receive assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides federal grants to low-income families.

After Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck Puerto Rico, García Coll penned a commentary in the Providence Journal describing the destruction and calling for a law similar to that following Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida.

Private life

García Coll lives in Puerto Rico, outside the capital, San Juan.

Selected Works

García Coll authored more than a 100 publications, including several books.

items

• Cynthia García Coll, Jerome Kagan, J. Steven Reznick: Behavioral Inhibition in Young Children . In: Child Development . 55, No. 3, June 1984, p. 1005. doi : 10.2307 / 1130152 .

Books

• Cynthia T. García Coll: Marie de Lourdes Mattei (Ed.): The Psychosocial development of Puerto Rican women . Praeger, August 1, 1989, ISBN 978-0-275-92345-7 , OCLC 869059289 .
• Gontram Lamberty, Cynthia García Coll: Puerto Rican Women and Children: Issues in Health, Growth, and Development . Springer US , November 21, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4613-6053-7 , OCLC 829749477 .
• Cynthia T. García Coll, Janet L. Surrey: Kaethe Weingarten (Eds.): Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers . Guilford Publications , April 17, 1998, ISBN 978-1-57230-330-0 , OCLC 38096903 .
• Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood: Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources , 1st. Pad, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates , June 27, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8058-5199-1 , OCLC 877844534 (Accessed on November 21, 2018).
• Cynthia García Coll, Amy Kerivan Marks: Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood . Oxford University Press , April 3, 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-972126-9 , OCLC 939700574 .
• Cynthia T. García Coll, Amy Kerivan Marks: The Immigrant Paradox in Children and Adolescents: Is Becoming American a Developmental Risk? . American Psychological Association , 2012, ISBN 978-1-4338-1053-4 , OCLC 720259800 .
• Cynthia T. García Coll: The Impact of Immigration on Children's Development . Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers , 2012, ISBN 978-3-8055-9798-2 , OCLC 867293007 .
• Cynthia Garcia Coll, Elaine L. Bearer, Richard M. Lerner: Nature and Nurture: The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development . Psychology Press , April 4, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-62896-3 , OCLC 911177728 .

See also

• List of eminent psychologists

Web links

• Cynthia García Coll (in Spanish) , staff directory for Carlos Albizu University

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Educational". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.
2. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Psychology, Developmental". 2016 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development Program .
4. ^ ^{A b} G. Coll: " My Turn: Cynthia Garcia Coll: Deeper causes of Puerto Rico disaster " Providence Journal. 17th October 2017
5. ^ ^{A b} M. White-Ajmani: Champions of Psychology: Cynthia García Coll . Observer. Published by Association for Psychological Science. March 2010
6. ^ Professor Cynthia Garia Coll Receives The Cultural and Contextual Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development (Press Release) . February 17, 2009. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
7. ^ Society for Research in Child Development, Senior Distinguished Contributions Award History
8. ↑ Presidents of SSHD ( en-US ) Retrieved November 19, 2018.
9. ↑ ^{a b} M. Kelleher Figueroa: " Exploring the 'Immigrant Paradox': Q & A with Cynthia García Coll " Education Writers Association Latino Ed Beat Blog. October 20, 2011.
10. ^ N. Villacorta: Profs. present 'the immigrant paradox.' The Brown Daily Herald. 20th September 2010
11. ↑ Alexandra Filindra, David Blanding, Cynthia García Coll: The Power of Context: State-Level Policies and Politics and the Educational Performance of the Children of Immigrants in the United States . In: Harvard Educational Review . 81, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 407-438. doi : 10.17763 / haer.81.3.n306607254h11281 .
12. ↑ A. Filindra, A. Wichowsky and M. Condon: 20 years on, here's how welfare reform held back immigrants' children - in some states. Washington Post. 22nd August 2016
13. ^ For kids in Puerto Rico, 'we don't know all the damage they have endured' from Hurricane Maria , PBS . September 21, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018. 
14. ↑ García Coll, Cynthia T. Overview . Retrieved November 21, 2018.
15. ↑ Cynthia García Coll , Google Scholar . Retrieved November 21, 2018. 
16. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Cynthia García Coll . Retrieved November 21, 2018.