Tovah Klein PhD
Tovah P. Klein, PhD is Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development and a psychology professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty and How Toddlers Thrive: What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success. Dr. Klein's work with families of children and teens spans over three decades and thousands of families. As a researcher she has investigated parenting challenges, including work and family; play as a way to process emotions; impact of parents on children’s learning and emotions; and child trauma including 9/11 and the Tohoku Japan earthquake-tsunami and nuclear meltdown. She conducted a study of “Parenting During Covid” with over 100 participants interviewed about their own and their children's experiences and responses to the pandemic. Dr. Klein is an author on over one hundred research articles and conference presentations related to child development and parental influences. She has presented at professional conferences internationally, including the International Play Conference in Wales; the Inaugural International True Play conference in Anji, China; the Cities and Children initiative in Istanbul, Turkey and the Work-Family Researchers Network in Montreal.
