Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Why Family Violence Makes People Sick: New Research on the Lifetime Health Effects of Adverse Childhood Experience

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2004). (Ed.) Health consequences of abuse in the family: A clinical guide. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.’

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2004). Breastfeeding and the sexual abuse survivor. Independent Study Module for Physicians. Schaumburg, IL: La Leche League International.

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2005). (Ed.) Handbook of women, stress and trauma. (Part of The Stress and Trauma series, edited by Charles Figley) NY: Taylor & Francis.

Kendall-Tackett, K.A., & Giacomoni, S. (2005). (Eds.) Child victimizaion. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2007). Cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome as sequelae of violence against women: A psychoneuroimmunology approach. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 8, 117-126.

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2007). Violence against women during the perinatal period: The impact on pregnancy, postpartum and breastfeeding. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 8, 344-353.

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Kendall-Tackett, K.A., & Hale, T.W. (2009). Medication use for trauma symptoms and ptsd in pregnant and breastfeeding women. Trauma Psychology. 4(2), 12-15.

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Kendall-Tackett, K.A., & Klest, B. (2010). Trauma, dissociation and health. London: Routledge.

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2010). The psychoneuroimmunology of chronic disease: The link between negative mental states, inflammation, and chronic illness. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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