APHD :: Daniel Keating :: Applied Psychology and Human Development at OISE

Daniel Keating

Department: Applied Psychology and Human Development

Research Overview

Dr. Keating's research interests include Human development; cognitive and social processes in developmental diversity. In applied practice, he is interested in:

-developmental origins and pathways of diversity in competence and coping, which includes two longitudinal studies, the first on emotion and attention regulation from infancy to early childhood; and the second on social and personal factors affecting adolescents' life choices and academic achievement
-current projects include assessment of a community-based model for the integration of early child development and parenting services (Toronto First Duty) and the implementation of a clinical prevention/intervention model in a community setting
-planned projects include work on adolescent affective regulation and cognitive performance, in conjunction with two U.S.-based research networks (MacArthur Foundation and NIMH)
-building a conceptual framework for understanding human development in the current context of social change, in conjunction with interdisciplinary research programs of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Research Projects/Activities:

University of Michigan http://www.chgd.umich.edu/faculty/keating.html

Developmental Health & the Wealth of Nations:
http://hdap.oise.utoronto.ca/dhwn
The Millennium Dialogue on Early Child Development:
http://lsn.oise.utoronto.ca/mdc
Conversations on Society & Child Development:
http://www.acscd.ca/acscd/cscd/home.nsf/Home!OpenPage

Teaching Overview

Dr. Keating's specialty course:

HDP1238: Society and Early Child Development

Representative Publications

Keating, D. (2000). Social capital and developmental health: Making the connection. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 21(1), 50-52.

Keating, D., & Miller, F. K. (1999). Individual pathways in competence and coping: From regulatory systems to habits of mind. In D. Keating & C. Hertzman (Eds), Developmental health and the wealth of nations: Social, biological, and educational dynamics (pp. 220-233). New York: Guilford.