Terry C. Chi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology

POSITIONS

Assistant Professor  Research Fellow  Research Staff

University of Wisconsin-Parkside Vanderbilt University  University of Southern California

Current 2003-2006 2002-2003

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2002
M.A. University of California, Berkeley 1999
B.A. University of Texas, Austin 1994

Mailing Address

Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
900 Wood Road
Kenosha WI 53141-2000

Office / Lab MOLN 264 / MOLN 311
Office Hours  MWF 3-4 pm
Phone 262-595-2399
Fax 262-595-2602
E-Mail chi@uwp.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Developmental psychopathology of depression. Rates of depression are increasing over the past 3 decades, this is especially so for young women. I am specifically interested in identifying factors that predict the onset, maintenance, and severity of depression through experimental, correlational, longitudinal, and meta-analytic research methodologies. By identifying these factors, better prevention and early intervention efforts can be implemented.

2. Validity of clinical assessment of children. Unlike physical diseases (e.g., a flu), there is yet reliable physical lesions associated with emotional problems and practical methods to measure them (if they exist) are decades away. In the mean time, mental illness is usually diagnosed through self-reports and observations by clinicians. For children, this is especially so because they are usually too young to refer themselves for treatment. For children, they are often referred for treatments by parents and teachers. My research interest in this area focuses on how emotional characteristics of the adult informants (e.g., parents) may influence the clinical information provided by these informants. As you can see, if there are these influences not related to the child's problems, there is a problem with the validity of psychiatric diagnoses.

3. Parent-child relationships. Relationships are difficult, parent-child relationships are especially complex as we all know. My interests in this area are to understand better how the parent-child relationships may exacerbate or ameliorate existing child behavior problems (e.g., ADHD) and how changes in parent-child relationships may translate into observable changes in child behavior problems and/or parent's emotional problems. I assess parent-child relationships through live observations of their behavior in laboratory settings.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Emotion Recognition – We are investigating if people with psychopathic traits, depression, and/or anxiety have specific deficits in processing visual and auditory representations of emotion (Collaborator: Dr. David Kosson, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL)

The Influence of Parenting History of Current Perceptions of Children – Do people’s history of their own child-rearing experiences influence how we perceive child behaviors?  Do people with different child-rearing histories have different views about child behaviors and do those differences influence their ratings of child behaviors? (Independent Study of Heather Becker).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Wells, K.C., Chi, T.C., Hinshaw, S.P., Epstein, J.N., Pfiffner, L., Nebel-Schwalm, M., Owens, E., & MTA Cooperative Group. (2006). Changes in objectively measured parenting behaviors in the multimodal treatment study of children with ADHD. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 649-657.

Mikami, A.Y., Chi, T.C., & Hinshaw, S.P. (2004). Behavior ratings and observations of externalizing symptoms: The role of child popularity with adults. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 26, 151-163.

Chi, T.C. & Hinshaw, S.P. (2002). Mother-child relationships of children with ADHD: The role of maternal depressive symptoms and depression-related distortions. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 387-400.

Chi, T.C., Hinshaw, S.P., Arnold , L.E., Hoza, B., Hechtman, L., & Wells, K . (under review). Beyond the depression-distortion hypothesis: Parenting stress incrementally predicts discrepant ratings. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavior Assessment.

Chi, T.C. & Cole, D.A. (under review). Longitudinal covariation between child anxiety and depressive symptoms: Mean level associations, symptom growth, and gender differences.  Development & Psychopathology.

TEACHING

Psychology 260--Theories of Personalityn           Syllabus
Psychology 101--General Psychology

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

2006-2009   Departmental representative to Faculty Senate

2006-2009    Ethnic Studies Steering Committee

USEFUL PSYCHOLOGY WEB LINKS  

American Psychological Association (APA) APA Division 12 – Clinical Psychology APA Division 53 – Clinical Child Psychology Midwestern Psychological Association Careers in Psychology Psi Chi – National Honor Society in Psychology American Psychological Society (APS) Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) Society of Research on Child Development (SRCD)

http://www.apa.org http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/homepage.html http://www.clinicalchildpsychology.org/ http://www.midwesternpsych.org/ http://www.psyccareers.com/ http://www.psichi.org/ http://www.psychologicalscience.org/ http://www.aapaonline.org/ http://www.srcd.org