Dan Kindlon, 1981 Cornell Ph.D. and co-author of the best-selling book Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys , will give a talk on the Cornell campus at noon Monday, April 23, in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. It is free and open to the public.

Kindlon is a clinical and research psychologist specializing in the behavioral problems of children and adolescents. His talk, which is co-sponsored by Cornell's Department of Human Development and the Family Life Development Center, is titled "Male Gender as A Risk Factor for Adolescent Morbidity and Mortality: The Role of Emotional Illiteracy."

At 7 p.m. April 23, he will give another free, public talk in the auditorium of Ithaca's Boynton Middle School, titled "Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys."

Kindlon has joint assistant professorships in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and in maternal and child health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He teaches graduate courses in cognitive and personality development, child and adolescent psychopathology and does research at Harvard. He also has been in clinical practice for 14 years, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of emotional problems, learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders.

Currently, Kindlon also is working with the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a longitudinal, population-based study of communities, families and children that is funded by several federal agencies and private foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Mental Health. The Chicago project focuses on the origins of delinquency and adult crime as well as other aspects of mental health and success in school. He is the principal scientific director of its Infant Assessment Unit and the leader of the scientific team investigating factors relating to influences on fathers' involvement in the lives of their children.