Kyle D. Pruett, M.D.

Director, Child Study Center
Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology Yale University School of Medicine
Chief, Child Psychiatry Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven

Research Interests

Dr. Pruett has been a distinguished educator at the graduate, undergraduate and distance-learning level for three decades and has served the Child Study Center as Director of Medical and Undergraduate Studies and member of School of Medicine’s Curriculum Committee. He is an international expert and forensic consultant on child, parental and family development, paternal involvement, children’s mental health, creativity and the effects of trauma, media and divorce on young and very young children. Founder of the Yale Conference on Fatherhood, and the Harris Professional Development Network for Training in Early Intervention and Research, and was co-chair of the Child Custody Conflict Placement Committee of the Child Study Center and the Yale Law School.

He is past President of Zero to Three: National Center of Infants, Toddlers and Families, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Sesame Workshop, Yale Program for Humanities in Medicine, and The Alliance for Childhood. He is a regular consultant and contributor to ABC and CBS News, Newsweek Magazine, NPR, the New York Times and sits on the editorial boards of Medical Problems of the Performing Artist, Parents, and Child.

Dr. Pruett served as principal investigator of the pioneering Longitudinal Study of Children of Primary Nurturing Fathers in Intact Families 1982-1998. He was co-principal investigator with Marsha Kline Pruett of Divorce in Legal Context: Outcomes for, and Perceptions by, Young Children of the Process of Divorce, 1998-2000. He conducted the first investigation of the effects of a collaborative divorce model on child outcomes, again teaming up with his wife, 2000-2002. His current research focuses on the Supporting Fatherhood Initiative, State of California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention. It is a major, multi-site randomized clinical trial of a parent-focused intervention designed to reduce abuse and neglect in a primarily Latino population of poor families by engaging fathers positively and early in the lives of their children.

Curriculum Vitae

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Recent Publications

• Pruett, K.D. (1987). The Nurturing Father. New York: War-ner Books [American Health Book Award] Editions also published in German, Swedish, and Italian.
• Pruett, K. & Pruett, Marsha Kline, editors (1998) Child Custody. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Vol. 7:2, April, W.B. Saunders.
• Pruett, K.D. (1999). Me, Myself, and I; How Toddlers Build Their Sense of Self. Goddard Press, New York [Independent Publishers' Award]
• Pruett, K.D., Pruett, M.Kline (1999). Only God Decides: Young Children's Perceptions of Divorce and the Legal System. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dec., 38:1544-50.
• Pruett, K.D. (2000). Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care to Your Child. The Free Press, New York. Edition published in Spanish
• Pruett, K.D. & Martin, A. (2002) Thinking about Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology. In Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, ed. Martin, A., Scahill, L., Charney, D., Leckman, J.F., Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 417-425.
• Pruett, K.D. (2002) “Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children” by J. Herzog, book review in New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 347:19, November 2002
• Pruett, Marsha Kline and Pruett, K.D., editors, (2003) Special Issue: Separated and Unmarried Fathers and the Courts, Family Court Review, Vol. 41:3, July
• Martin, A., Bostic, J., Pruett, K.D. (2004) The V.I.P: Hazard and Promise in Treating ‘Special’ Patients, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 43:3, pp. 366-369
• Pruett, K.D. (2007-in press) The Art of the Science: The Child, Family and System-Centered Approach to Child Psychiatry. In Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook Volkmar, F. and Martin, A. eds. Vol. 4 Lippincott: Philadelphia

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

Office Address
301-NIHB

E-mail
kyle.pruett@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-737-2490

Fax
203-785-4608