Keith Crnic, Ph.D.

Keith Crnic received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Washington.  He currently serves as the Chair of the Psychology Department at Arizona State University where he is also a Foundation Professor in the clinical psychology program.  Prior to his appointment at ASU, Dr. Crnic was Head of the Department of Psychology, Director of the Child Studies Center and a professor at Penn State University where he often collaborated with Jay Belsky.  Dr. Crnic’s current research interests include parent-child interaction, parenting, and family process predictions to emerging behavior problems in young children as well as the nature of stress in parent-child relationships and its influence on child and family functioning.

Dr. Crnic has served as the chair of the Maternal Child and Health Research Bureau and received an MCH Hall of Fame aware in 2004.  He is on the Board of Editors of Parenting: Science and Practice, a journal geared towards scholars and practitioners as well as parents.