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Kate Harkness

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Associate Professor


B.Sc., (Hon.) University of Toronto, 1993
M.S., University of Oregon, 1995
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1998

 

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T:613.533.2886  

E: harkness@queensu.ca

222 Craine

Psychology Department

Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
 

 

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Research Interests

My primary research focus is the role of stress and early trauma in the etiology and ongoing pathology of major depression in adolescence and adulthood. My current work focuses on gene-environment interactions that increase the biological and psychosocial sensitivity to stress in major depression.

Selected Publications

Harkness, K. L., Stewart, J. G., Wynne-Edwards, K. E. (in press). Cortisol reactivity to social stress in adolescents: Moderation by depression severity and child maltreatment. Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Harkness, K. L., Alavi, N., Monroe, S. M., Slavich, G. M., Gotlib, I. H., & Bagby, R. M. (in press). Gender differences in life events prior to onset of major depressive disorder: The moderating effect of age. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Seeds, P. M., Harkness, K. L., & Quilty, L. C. (2010). Parental maltreatment, bullying, and adolescent depression: Evidence for the mediating role of perceived social support. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 39, 681-692.

Harkness, K. L., Jacobson, J. A., Duong, D., & Sabbagh, M. A. (2010). Mental state decoding in past major depression: Effect of sad versus happy mood induction. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 497-513. 

Bulmash, E., Harkness, K. L., Stewart, J. G., & R. M. Bagby. (2009). Personality, Stressful Life Events, and Treatment Response in Major Depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77, 1067-1077

Lumley, M. N., & Harkness, K. L. (2009). Childhood Maltreatment and Depressotypic Cognitive Organization. Cognitive Therapy & Research, 33, 511-522.

Harkness, K. L., & Stewart, J. E. (2009). Symptom Specificity and the Prospective Generation of Life Events in Adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 278-287.

Harkness, K. L. (2009). Role of life events. In R. Ingram (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Depression. (pp. 527-531). New York: Springer Publishing.

Harkness, K. L. (2009). Mood disorders and suicide. In D. J. Dozois  & P. Firestone (Eds.) Abnormal Psychology Perspectives. Pearson: Toronto.

Harkness, K. L., Lumley, M. N. & Truss, A. E. (2008). Stress generation in adolescent depression: The moderating effect of childhood adversity. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 421-432.

Harkness, K. L. (2008). Life events and hassles. In K. S. Dobson & D. J. Dozois (Eds.) Risk Factors in Depression (pp. 317-342). Elsevier: Oxford.

Harkness, K. L., & Lumley, M. N. (2007). Child abuse and neglect and the development of depression in children and adolescents. In J. Abela & B. Hankin (Eds.) Depression in Children and Adolescents. (pp. 639-657) Guilford: New York.

Lumley, M. N., & Harkness, K. L. (2007). Specificity in the relations among childhood adversity, early maladaptive schemas, and symptom profiles in adolescent depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 31, 639-657.

Pohl, J., Olmstead, M. C., Wynne-Edwards, K. E., Harkness, K., & Menard, J. L. (2007). Repeated exposure to stress across the childhood-adolescent period alters rats’ anxiety- and depression-like behaviours in adulthood: The importance of stressor type and gender. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 462-474.

Harkness, K. L., Bruce, A. E., & Lumley, M. N. (2006). The role of childhood abuse and neglect in the sensitization to stressful life events in adolescent depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 730-741.

Monroe, S. M., Torres, L., Guillaumot, J.,Harkness, K. L., Roberts, J. E., Frank, E., & Kupfer, D. (2006). Life stress and the long-term treatment course of recurrent depression: III. Nonsevere life events predict recurrence for medicated patients over 3 years. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 74, 112-120.

Harkness, K. L., & Monroe, S. M. (2006). Severe melancholic depression is more vulnerable than non-melancholic depression to minor precipitating life events. Journal of Affective Disorders, 91, 257-263.

Lee, L., Harkness, K. L., Sabbagh, M. A., & Jacobson, J. A. (2005). Mental state decoding abilities in clinical depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 86, 247-258.

Harkness, K. L., Sabbagh, M. A., Jacobson, J., Chowdrey, N., & Chen, T. (2005). Sensitivity to subtle social information in dysphoric college students: Evidence for an enhanced “theory of mind”. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 999-1026.

Monroe, S. M. & Harkness, K. L. (2005). Life stress, the ‘kindling’ hypothesis, and the recurrence of depression: Considerations from a life stress perspective. Psychological Review, 112, 417-445.

Sabbagh, M. S., Moulson, M. C., & Harkness, K. L. (2004). Event-related potential correlates of decoding others’ emotional mental states: Implications for understanding the neural bases of theory of mind. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 416-425.

Harkness, K. L., Shear, M. K., Frank, E., & Silberman, R. (2002). Traumatic grief treatment: Case histories of 4 patients. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 63, 1113-1120.

Harkness, K. L., & Wildes, J. (2002). Childhood adversity and anxiety versus dysthymia comorbidity in major depression. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1239-1249.

Harkness, K. L., & Bagby, R. M. (2002). Major depression, chronic minor depression, and the five-factor model of personality. European Journal of Personality, 16, 271-281.

Harkness, K. L., Frank, E., Anderson, B. P., Luther, J., Houck, P., Rucci, P. & Kupfer, D. (2002). Does interpersonal psychotherapy protect women from depression in the face of stressful life events? Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 908-915.

Harkness, K.L., & Monroe, S. M. (2002). Childhood adversity and the endogenous versus non-endogenous distinction in women with major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 387-393.

Wildes, J. E., Harkness, K. L., & Simons, A. D. (2002). Life events, number of social relationships, and twelve-month naturalistic course of major depression in a community sample of women. Depression and Anxiety, 16, 104-113.

Harkness, K. L., & Luther, J. (2001). Clinical risk factors for the generation of life events in major depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 564-572.

Monroe, S. M., Harkness, K. L., Simons, A. D., & Thase, M. E. (2001). Life stress and the symptoms of major depression. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 189, 168-175.

Harkness, K. L. & Tucker, D. M. (2000). Adaptive organization of corticolimbic networks. In M. Lewis and I. Granic (Eds.) Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization. Cambridge University Press: New York.

Harkness, K. L., Monroe, S. M., Simons, A. D., & Thase, M. E. (1999). The generation of life events in recurrent and non-recurrent depression. Psychological Medicine, 29, 135-144.

Bagby, R. M., Schuller, D. R., Levitt, A. J., Joffe, R. T., & Harkness, K. L. (1996). Seasonal and non-seasonal depression and the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Affective Disorders, 38, 89-95.

Bagby, R. M., Joffe, R. T., Parker, J. D. A., Kalemba, V., & Harkness, K. L. (1995). Major depression and the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Personality Disorders, 9, 224-234.

 Area of Specialty

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6. 613.533.2000