www.drkylepruett.com
Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry and Nursing,
served as Director of Medical Studies at the Yale
School of Medicine's Child Study Center, where he received
the Lifetime Distinguished Teaching award. He also helped found the Performing
Arts Medicine Association, and has been in the private
practice of infant, child and family psychiatry since 1974. As president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and their Families, he headed one of the nation's most prestigious multi-disciplinary training programs for infant/family professionals. Both clinician and scholar, Dr. Pruett conducted a landmark study, which demonstrated the powerful, positive impact which early caregiving by fathers can have on a young child's social and intellectual development. Dr. Pruett's writings (including the classic The Nurturing Father, winner of the American Health Book Award, and more current Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child and Me, Myself and I: The Child's Sense of Self, which won the Independent Book Publisher's Award), frequent contributions to national and international print and electronic media, and television appearances have provided countless parents with useful information and guidance on early childhood development and effective parenting practices. He serves as consultant to NBC Dateline, ABC News, CBS Morning News, National Public Radio, PBS National Advisory Board, and Sesame Workshop, was chosen by Peter Jennings to co-host the Children's Town Meeting on ABC News the Saturday after 9/11, and by Oprah Winfrey to co-host with her the award winning video for new parents, Begin With Love.
Dr. Pruett is affiliated with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Society for Research in Family Therapy, World Association for Infant Mental Health, the Yale University Program for the Humanities in Medicine, and the Annenberg Center for Public Policy in the Media. With his wife Marsha Kline Pruett, he is co-investigator in the Collaborative Divorce Project to reduce the trauma of divorce in young children's lives, and the prestigious on-going, multi-site abuse and neglect prevention study, Supporting Fatherhood Initiative for California's Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention.