DVP Series 2025
Healthy Social Development Across Childhood and Adolescence
Speaker: Prof Gustavo Carlo
School of Education, University of California, Irvine
Drawing upon cultural developmental perspectives and over 30 years of research, Prof Carlo will present a brief overview of normative social development across childhood and adolescence. The presentation will emphasise healthy development and identify factors that enhance growth and protect children and adolescents from risk. He will also focus on the central importance of family and caregivers in healthy social development. Implications for caregivers, teachers, practitioners and programme developers will be briefly discussed throughout.
22 October 2025 (Wed)
1:30pm – 3pm (HKT)
D1-LP-08, EdUHK Tai Po Campus / Zoom Webinar
About the speaker
Professor Gustavo Carlo
Dr Gustavo Carlo is Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. His primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally-diverse children and adolescents. Many of his projects focus on ethnic/racial groups across the world and in U.S. Latino/a youth and families. He has published over 250 books, chapters, and research papers. He has received funding from various agencies (including National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health) and has received several awards for his research and mentorship. He currently serves as a member of the Society for Research in Child Development Governing Council, Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Child Development, and co-edited the recent American Psychological Association Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development.
Discussion Panel
Prof Eva Lau (Chair), Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, EdUHK
Dr Jianbin Li, Associate Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, EdUHK
Dr Liman Li, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, EdUHK
Dr Norman Mendoza, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, EdUHK