FACULTY
Deborah
Vietze (formerly coates)
Professor
Office Address: 7/322
Office Phone: 212-650-5690
Email: dvietze@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. Coates is a tenured Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a member of the Ph.D. faculty in Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Urban Education. She also teaches undergraduate courses at City College. Dr. Coates has also been a tenured professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Her most recent publications focus on cultural influences on development and social behavior, sexual abuse in children and on gender differences in parenting and achievement in adolescent girls. Currently she is conducting research on smoking and risk perception in young adults; editing a book on models of success in African descent and immigrant adolescents in the U.S. and evaluating a program designed to teach teachers how to teach technology. Dr. Coates is also working with students on ethnic identity in immigrant students and on how young adults experience romantic relationships.
From 1990–93 Dr. Coates was Director of the Institute for Healthier Babies at the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and for ten years was a member of the psychology faculty at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. During the 2001-02 academic year Dr. Coates was Visiting Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health. While at UMDNJ she worked with research scholars at the UMDNJ /UBHC Violence Institute focusing on understanding the development of intolerance in adolescence and precursors and consequences of romantic partner violence in adolescence.
Dr. Coates received her Ph.D. in Psychology, with a specialization in measurement and evaluation, from Columbia University, New York City in 1979. She is author of several journal articles and chapters, which describe her research on pregnant women, infants and adolescents. She has received a number of federal and foundation grants to support her research and she also serves on many national committees and advisory boards and acts as a consultant to various programs and projects in the interest of promoting the health and welfare of children, youth and families. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Development. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the NICHD study of early childcare. This national longitudinal study is following families from pregnancy through adolescence to examine the impact of childcare and daycare experiences on child and adolescent social, cognitive and emotional development.Dr. Coates is the 1990 recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Minority Achievement Award for excellence in integrating research and service for ethnic minority populations and the 1991 C. Everett Koop (former Surgeon General of the U.S.) National Health Award for health-related services research.
