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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is affiliated with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across subfields such as clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacology, epidemiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers a range of topics related to maternal and child health, mental health, and trauma, including:

  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Kendall-Tackett's publication record includes papers such as:

  • Secondary Traumatic Stress and Moral Injury in Maternity Care Providers: A Narrative and Exploratory Review, 2022, Frontiers in Global Women s Health
  • Neuroticism and PTSD symptoms: Gender moderates the mediating effect of peritraumatic emotions and dissociation, 2021, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Posttraumatic growth and depreciation in people with chronic pain: A profile analysis, 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Mode of Cannabis Use and Factors Related to Frequency of Cannabis Use Among Breastfeeding Mothers: Results from an Online Survey, 2021, Breastfeeding Medicine
  • A social history of the coronavirus, 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

The frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Clinical Lactation
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Frontiers in Global Women s Health

Kendall-Tackett has collaborated with several researchers, notably:

  • Christine D. Garner
  • Cheryl Tatano Beck
  • Maria Cyniak-Cieciura
  • Agnieszka Popiel
  • Bogdan Zawadzki

In addition to articles and research papers, they have published a book titled Breastfeeding doesn't need to suck: How to nurture your baby and your mental health. This book was published by the American Psychological Association in 2022.

Kendall-Tackett was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Impact of sexual abuse on children: A review and synthesis of recent empirical studies

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Linda M. Williams;David Finkelhor

  • The health effects of childhood abuse: four pathways by which abuse can influence health.

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

  • The Effects of Neglect on Academic Achievement and Disciplinary Problems: A Developmental Perspective

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;John Eckenrode

  • A new paradigm for depression in new mothers: the central role of inflammation and how breastfeeding and anti-inflammatory treatments protect maternal mental health

    Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

  • Psychological Trauma and Physical Health: A Psychoneuroimmunology Approach to Etiology of Negative Health Effects and Possible Interventions

    Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

  • Physiological correlates of childhood abuse: chronic hyperarousal in PTSD, depression, and irritable bowel syndrome.

    Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

  • Violence against women and the perinatal period: the impact of lifetime violence and abuse on pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

  • Childhood abuse, chronic pain, and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey

    Natalie Sachs-Ericsson;Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Annette Hernandez

  • The importance of retrospective findings in child maltreatment research.

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Kathryn A. Becker-Blease

  • A review of childhood abuse, health, and pain-related problems: the role of psychiatric disorders and current life stress.

    Natalie Sachs-Ericsson;Kiara R. Cromer;Annette Hernandez;Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

  • The Effect of Feeding Method on Sleep Duration, Maternal Well-being, and Postpartum Depression

    Kathleen Kendall-Tackett;Zhen Cong;Thomas W. Hale

  • Why child maltreatment researchers should include children's disability status in their maltreatment studies.

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Thomas Lyon;Greg Taliaferro;Liza Little

  • Impact of sexual abuse on children

    K.A. Kendall-Tackett;L.M. Williams;D. Finkelhor

  • Use of physical and neurologic observations in assessment of gestational age in low birth weight infants

    Norman A. Constantine;Helena C. Kraemer;Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Forrest C. Bennett

  • Perpetrators and their acts: Data from 365 adults molested as children

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Arthur F. Simon

  • Childhood Abuse and Current Health Problems among Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy.

    Natalie J. Sachs-Ericsson;Amanda N. Medley;Kathleen A. Kendall–Tackett;Julie Taylor

  • Mother–Infant Sleep Locations and Nighttime Feeding Behavior: U.S. Data from the Survey of Mothers' Sleep and Fatigue

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Zhen Cong;Thomas W. Hale

  • Chronic Pain Syndromes and Violence Against Women

    Kathleen Kendall-Tackett;Roberta Marshall;Kenneth Ness

  • A comparison of the abuse experiences of male and female adults molested as children

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Arthur F. Simon

  • Breastfeeding and the sexual abuse survivor.

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

  • Child sexual abuse: The initial effects

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalie Sachs-Ericsson
Natalie Sachs-Ericsson Florida State University
Jeffrey L. Edleson
Jeffrey L. Edleson University of California, Berkeley
Victoria L. Banyard
Victoria L. Banyard Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
Linda M. Williams
Linda M. Williams Wellesley College
Valerie J. Edwards
Valerie J. Edwards Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Henri Chabrol
Henri Chabrol Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Joan M. Cook
Joan M. Cook Yale University
Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez University of Notre Dame
Helena C. Kraemer
Helena C. Kraemer Stanford University

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