Cynthia García Coll

Cynthia García Coll is an American developmental psychologist, and the former editor-in-chief of Child Development. She teaches at Carlos Albizu University in Puerto Rico, where she is the Associate Director of the . She has authored more than a hundred publications, including several books.

Career[]

García Coll is the current editor-in-chief of Child Development, a journal in the fields of psychology and child development.^[1][2] She received her PhD from Harvard,^[3] and as of 2017, was the Associate Director of the Institutional Center for Scientific Research at Carlos Albizu University, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is also a Professor in the Clinical Psychology program at Albizu.^[3] Prior to moving back to Puerto Rico, where she grew up, García Coll was a professor of education, psychology, and pediatrics at Brown University.^[4]

García Coll was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network "Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood" from 1994–2002.^[5] In 2009, she received the Cultural and Contextual Contributions to Child Development Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.^[6][7] She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association,^[3] and served as past president of the Society for the Study of Human Development.^[8]

García Coll has researched a number of topics, including the resilience of children born to teen mothers and of immigrant children.^[5] She has also explored the immigrant paradox, which shows that first-generation immigrant children and adolescents tend to be better adjusted academically and behaviorally than later assimilated generations.^[9] García Coll has found that immigrant Hispanic children living in homes where Spanish is spoken are better adjusted than similar immigrant children living in homes where Spanish is not spoken.^[9] Her work has also shown that access to social welfare and policies aimed at the inclusion of immigrants have a positive effect on immigrant children's academic success.^[10] The graduation rate of children with at least one immigrant parent was 5.3% higher in US states where immigrant families could receive benefits through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides Federal subsidies to low-income families.^[11]

Personal life[]

García Coll resides in Puerto Rico, outside of the capital San Juan.^[12]

Selected works[]

García Coll has authored more than a hundred publications, including a number of books.^[13][14][15]

Articles[]

• García Coll, Cynthia; Kagan, Jerome; Reznick, J. Steven (June 1984). "Behavioral Inhibition in Young Children". Child Development. 55 (3): 1005. doi:10.2307/1130152. JSTOR 1130152.

Books[]

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

See also[]

• Index of Puerto Rico-related articles
• List of developmental psychologists
• List of psychologists

References[]

External links[]

• Cynthia García Coll (in Spanish), staff directory for Carlos Albizu University
• Cynthia García Coll publications indexed by Google Scholar