Kathryn Bennett, Ph.D.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University

Mailing Address

McMaster University
Faculty of Health Sciences
1200 Main St. W.
HSC 3V43
Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5

Tel: 905-525-9140 x 22914
Fax: 905-546-5211
E-mail: kbennett@mcmaster.ca
Website: http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/ceb/faculty_member_bennett.htm

Appointments, cross appointments, fellowships

  • Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  • Associate Member, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
  • Coordinator, Health Research Methodology Program
  • Core Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies

Research Interests

Child mental health, school-based prevention interventions, influence of early conduct problems on future health and social outcomes, school influences on behavioural adjustment

Presentations

Academic
Bullying Knowledge Translation Review, Canadian Public Health Association, Sept. 2005 Conference, Ottawa, ON.

Selected Publications

  1. Bennett KJ and DR Offord: Prevention and Child Mental Health (2006). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Accepted for Publication.
  2. Bennett KJ, Brown SB, Boyle, M, Racine, Y, & Offord DR (2003): Do Reading Problems at School Entry Cause Conduct Problems? Social Science and Medicine, 56, 2443-2448.
  3. Offord, D.R. and KJ Bennett: Prevention. In, Rutter M., and Taylor E., Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Modern Approaches, 4th Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications (2002).
  4. Bennett KJ, and DR Offord (2001): Screening for Conduct Problems: Does the Predictive Accuracy of Conduct Disorder Symptoms Improve with Age?, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1418-1425.
  5. Bennett, KJ and DR Offord (2001): Conduct Disorder: Can it be Prevented? Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 14, 333-337.
  6. Bennett, KJ, Lipman, E, Racine Y and Offord, DR. (1998): Annotation: Do Measures of Externalizing Behaviour in Normal Populations Predict Later Outcome?: Implications for Targeted Interventions to Prevent Conduct Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 39: 1059-1070.
  7. Offord DR and KJ Bennett (1994): Conduct Disorder: Long-term Outcomes and Intervention Effectiveness. J Amer Acad Child Adol Psych 33: 1069 - 1078.
  8. Halstead SB, Tugwell P and KJ Bennett (1991): The International Clinical Epidemiology Network: A Progress Report. J Clin Epidemiol 44: 579 - 589.

 

 

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