Tovah P. Klein Phd
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Tovah P. Klein, Ph.D. is a psychology professor at Barnard College, Columbia University and Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development – an internationally renowned research and teaching center with programs for the community. She studied psychology at the University of Michigan and holds a doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology from Duke University. She was a clinical fellow at Harvard University, Boston Children's Hospital; a fellow at Yale Child Study Center and a visiting scholar at UCLA. She is author on numerous conference presentations and journal articles in child psychology. Dr. Klein has been steeped in work with parents and their children for over three decades and finds humor an essential piece of raising children. She conducts research on child and parent development, including parenting challenges and work and family issues; children’s play; the impact of parents on children’s social and emotional development; and the impact of traumatic events on children and parents, including witnessing the WTC attacks; covid19; and the Tohoku, Japan earthquake and tsunami. She writes for and is frequently quoted in the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Parents, PureWow, Motherly, WalletHub, Insider, CNN, Today, and Slate. She is a frequent guest on Radio, Podcasts, and TV and was named the ‘toddler whisperer’ by Good Morning America. Dr. Klein consults worldwide to schools and programs for children and families with an aim of helping to improve life for all families. She works with families, staff and program administrators. She was a developmental advisor to Sesame Street. Currently, Dr. Klein is on the advisory boards of Room to Grow, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Ubuntu Pathways S. Africa, and Hunts Point Alliance for Children. She consults to children’s media including HBO, National Geographic Books and is a Changemaker for Apple TV+. She lives in New York City with her family.
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