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College of Education and Human Services

CEHS Faculty Profile

Faculty Profile
Name Department
Daniel Chesir-Teran Family and Child Studies

Website: http://www.montclair.edu/~chesirterand

Scholarly Interests and Specialties
  • Heterosexism in High School policies, programs, and social environments
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning Adolescents
  • Primary Prevention & Promotion of Wellbeing
  • Effects of context (family, school, neighborhood) on child and adolescent development.
  • The ways power and privilege operate at the institutional level (e.g., schools, families, community organizations) to either promote or pose barriers to the wellbeing of youths

Professional Association Memberships
  • American Psychological Association
  • Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the American Psychological Association)
  • Society for Prevention Research
  • Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
  • Society for Research on Adolescence
  • Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues (Division 44 of the American Psychological Association).

Reviewer for the following professional journals
  • American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Journal of LGBT Youth: The Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Practice, Research, Policy, and Theory
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Professional journals for which you are on the editorial board
  • American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Journal of LGBT Youth: The Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Practice, Research, Policy, and Theory

Work With Schools and Other Agencies
  • Planning to collect data from local high schools in the fall of 2007. (Currently we have approval from one school and hope to get 2 or 3 additional schools for the Spring of 2008). This project (a collaboration between myself and Dr. Sara Goldstein) focuses on aggressive behavior and harassment in high school (generally, and race or sexual-orientation based) and connections to social norms and policies in the schools.