AEC Fellows: Richard E. Tremblay

Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal Email: tremblar@grip.umontreal.ca Phone: 514-343-6963 Fax: 514-343-6962

Richard E. Tremblay is Canada Research Chair in Child Development, professor of Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Psychology, and director of the Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment at the University of Montreal. Since the early 1980s he has been conducting a program of longitudinal and experimental studies, focusing on the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children from conception onward, in order to gain a better understanding of the development and the prevention of antisocial and violent behavior. Director of the Centre of Excellence for Early Child Development, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Molson Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Member of the US National Consortium on Violence Research, he is a former member of the US OJJDP Study Group on Very Young Offenders, and of the US National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime Prevention, Treatment, and Control. Professor Tremblay has published more than 200 scientific articles, and 70 book chapters. With the Montreal Longitudinal-Experimental Study he and his colleagues have shown that intensive interventions at school entry can change the long-term behavior trajectories of aggressive kindergarten boys. His recent work, showing that most children initiate physical aggression during infancy, has led him to experiment prevention programs for pregnant women at risk of failing to provide the environment needed for a child to learn alternatives to physical aggression

 

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