ANN ARBOR—Sir Michael Rutter, professor of child psychiatry at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry, will deliver a lecture titled “Environmental Influences on Child Psychopathology: Some Challenges and Some Solutions” on
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Center for Human Growth and Development and the Department of Psychology.

The author or editor of dozens of books and hundreds of scholarly articles, Rutter is the president of the Society for Research in Child Development. His research interests include resilience in relation to stress, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, reading difficulties, psychiatric genetics, neuropsychiatry, infantile autism, and psychiatric epidemiology. In addition to research and teaching, he continues a clinical practice with children and adolescents.

Reflecting his strong interdisciplinary interests, he is an honorary fellow of the British Psychological Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Child and Adolesecent Psychiatry.

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