BSc.Hons, PhD Qld., FAPS

Justin Kenardy works in the broad area of behavioural medicine. He has particular interests in anxiety and post-traumatic stress in relation to physical illness or injury.

He obtained his PhD at the University of Queensland. He then undertook postdoctoral studies at the Behavioral Medicine Laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine. There he worked with Stewart Agras in the area of eating and weight disorders, and also with Barr Taylor in the area of e-mental health.

After returning to Australia he took up a post at University of Newcastle where he worked as a Senior Lecturer, established the Psychology Clinic and was Foundation Director, and obtained two NHMRC grants to develop e-mental health solutions for anxiety disorders. During this time he also undertook a large scale longitudinal study of the impact of the Newcastle Earthquake on the community, which led to breakthrough research on the prevention of post-traumatic stress. With the Newcastle Diabetes Service he set up the Commonwealth Department of Health funded Diabetes and Eating Behaviours Project. He also served as an adviser to the DSMIV.

In 1993 he was appointed as a Visiting Fellow to the School of Psychology, Yale University where he continued to develop his work on eating and weight disorders. In 1995 as Chief Investigator he helped to establish the Australian Longitudinal Study of Womens Health with a focus on eating and weight issues.

In 1995 he was appointed to the School of Psychology, University of Queensland. He continued his work on e-mental health, in the process establishing the first international multi-site randomised control trial of cognitive behaviour therapy with St. Andrews University in Scotland, and with collaborators at Stanford University and Penn State University. In 1997 he was appointed Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of Queensland.

He also continued his work in eating disorders and behavioural medicine broadly, publishing on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and overweight and obesity. He was appointed as an advisor to the Queensland government to provide expert advice on diabetes and eating disorders. He has established a diabetes and psychology initiative with the Princess Alexandra Hospital, to examine the impact of depression in diabetes. This project has so far attracted funding from ARC Linkage and the Diabetes Australia Research Trust.

He also established a collaborative relationship with the School of Physiotherapy and started a line of research on psychological aspects of whiplash related disorders, this led to a number of high profile publications and several large grants through NHMRC and ARC. He is a CI for the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Health. He has focussed his interest in trauma on children, and has obtained a two NHMRC grants to study this population.

He continues his work on e-mental health and holds an ARC-Linkage Grant and an NHMRC Grant to develop and evaluate internet and virtual reality interventions. He is also a CI on a Beyond Blue funded initiative to develop and evaluate a public health oriented e-mental health website in collaboration with ANU. He hold an appointment as Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research at ANU. He was also awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the Scottish Executive to travel to Scotland to develop internet-based prevention programs for anxiety disorders. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Evidence-based Mental Health, and The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma, and is the Editor of Clinical Psychologist.

Justin Kenardy is currently Deputy Director of the Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine. He has published over 150 chapters and papers and has obtained over $8 million in competitive grants and over $16 million in research contracts.

Deputy Director, Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation

Professor, Schools of Medicine and Psychology

Editor, Clinical Psychologist.

Associate Editor, Australian Psychologist (1995-2001.)

Editorial Board, Psychology and Health: An International Journal (1997-2000).

Editorial Board, Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.

Editorial Board, Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy.

Editorial Board, Evidence-Based Mental Health.

Editorial Board, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Traumatic injury and psychological impact. I am currently working on studies of the psychological impact of whiplash in adults, and traumatic physical injury in children including traumatic brain injury, burns, and intensive care admission.

Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire (CTSQ)

Reference: Kenardy, J., Spence, S., & Macleod, A. (2006). Screening for risk of Persistent Posttraumatic Morbidity in children following traumatic injury. Pediatrics. 118, 1002-1009.

This instrument available to download below. As it is copyright, I ask that you advise me of your intended use and I will be happy to send it with my permission to reproduce it.

If you wish to use the instrument for research I would really appreciate that you forward a copy of your results to me, as this will allow me to build a database on the performance of the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire.

Here is the link for the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire

ctsq10 (PDF)

Here is the link to a document to complete and return:

Child Trauma Instrument (PDF)

Posttraumatic stress. I am examining alternatives to psychological debriefing as a means for early intervention for posttraumatic stress.

Here is the link to alternative early intervention resources for children (younger and adolescents) and parents following traumatic injury:

Brochures here

booklet_adult3 (PDF)

booklet_adoles3 (PDF)

booklet_child3 (PDF)

Here's the reference:

Kenardy, J., Thompson, K., LeBrocque, R. & Olsson, K. (in press) Information provision intervention for children and their parents following pediatric accidental injury. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

We have also developed a website to deliver an information-based prevention program for children and families following hospitalisation for injury. This is currently under evaluation:

http://kidsaccident.psy.uq.edu.au

Clinical Health Psychology, specifically diabetes and pain. I am exploring the role for screening for depression in a diabetes. I am also developing new models for the assessment of pain.

Technology and psychological interventions. I am using internet-based intervention to deliver prevention programs for anxiety and stress-related disorders. Here is the relevant website:

Online Anxiety Prevention Program.

Below is a DOS-based program used to help treat panic disorder. The outcome study is cited below *

Palm top computer anxiety treatment program and resources. Please use the following citation when reporting the use of these files:Kenardy, J. (1996) Serena Anxiety Management Software for Palmtop PC. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.

Powell, R., Allan, J., Johnston, D., Gao, C., Johnston, M., Kenardy, J., Pollard, B., & Rowley, D. (in press) Activity and affect: Repeated within-participant assessment in people after joint replacement surgery. Rehabilitation Psychology.

Robert, N.P., Kitchiner, N., Kenardy, J., Bisson, J. (in press) Systematic review and meta-analysis of multiple session early interventions following traumatic events. American Journal of Psychiatry.

Strodl E. & Kenardy J. (2008) The 5-Item Mental Health Index Predicts the Initial Diagnosis of Non-Fatal Stroke in Older Women, Journal of Women’s Health, 17, 979-986.

McHale, M., Dann, F., Hendricz, J. & Kenardy, J. (2008). A comparison of depression screening measures in diabetes. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 869-874..

 Olsson, K.A., Kenardy, J.A., De Young, A.C. & Spence, S.H. (2008) Predicting children’s posttraumatic stress symptoms following hospitalization for accidental injury: Combining the Child Trauma Screening Questionnaire and heart rate. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 1447-1453.

Olsson, K.A., Kenardy, J.A., Le Brocque, R., Spence, S.H., & Anderson, V.A. (2008) The influence of pre-injury behavior on children’s type of accident, type of injury, and severity of injury. Brain Injury, 22, 595-602.

Spence, S.H, Donovan, S.L., March, S., Gamble, A., Anderson, R., Prosser, S., Kercher, A. & Kenardy, J.A. (2008) Online CBT in the Treatment of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders: Issues in the Development of BRAVE-ONLINE and Two Case Illustrations. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36, 411-430.

 Kenardy, J., Thompson, K., Le Brocque, R. &  Olsson, K. (2008) Information provision intervention for children and their parents following paediatric accidental injury. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 17, 316-325.

Sterling M. & Kenardy J. (2008). Physical and psychological aspects of whiplash: important considerations for primary care assessment, Manual Therapy, 13, 93-102.

Cox, C., & Kenardy, J (2008).  A Meta-Analysis of Risk Factors that Predict Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following Pediatric Accidental Trauma. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 13, 98-110.

Murray, B. L., Kenardy, J. A., & Spence, S. H. (2008). Brief Report: Children's Responses to Trauma- and Nontrauma-related Hospital Admission: A Comparison Study. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 33(4), 435-440.

Macleod, A., Kenardy, J., & Spence, S.H. (2007). Elevated Heart Rate as a Predictor of PTSD Following Accidental Pediatric Injury. Journal of Traumatic Stress.20, 751-756.

O’Kearney, R., Speyer, J. & Kenardy, J. (2007). Children’s narrative memory for accidents and their posttraumatic distress. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 21, 821–838 

Dow, M.J., Kenardy, J., Johnston, D., Newman, M., & Taylor, C.B. (2007). Prognostic indices with brief and standard CBT for panic disorder: I. Predictors of outcome. Psychological Medicine.37, 1493-1502. 

Dow, M.J., Kenardy, J., Johnston, D., Newman, M., & Taylor, C.B. (2007) Prognostic indices with brief and standard CBT for panic disorder: II. Moderators of outcome in CBT for Panic Disorder. Psychological Medicine., 37, 1503-1510. 

Jull, G., Sterling, M., Kenardy, J., &  Beller, E. (2007).  Does the presence of sensory hypersensitivity influence outcomes of physical rehabilitation for chronic whiplash? – A preliminary RCT. Pain. 129, 28-34.

Kenardy, J., Smith, A., Spence, S.H., Lilley, P-R., Newcombe, P., Dob, R., & Robinson, S. (2007). Dissociation in children's trauma narratives: An exploratory investigation. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 21, 456-466.

Stein, R.I., Kenardy, J., Wiseman, C.V., Dounchis, J.Z., Arnow, B.A., & Wilfley, D.E. (2007). What’s driving the binge in binge eating disorder? A prospective examination of precursors and consequences. International Journal of Eating Disorders.40, 195-203.

Kenardy, J. & Piercy, J. (2006). The effect of information provision on trauma symptoms following therapeutic writing. Australian Psychologist, 41, 205-212.

Kenardy, J., Spence, S., & Macleod, A. (2006). Screening for risk of Persistent Posttraumatic Morbidity in children following traumatic injury. Pediatrics. 118, 1002-1009.

Sterling, M., Jull, G. & Kenardy, J. (2006). Physical and Psychological Factors Maintain Predictive Capacity Two Years Post Whiplash Injury. Pain, 122, 202-208.

Strodl, E. & Kenardy, J. (2006) Risk factors for diabetes in elderly women. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.74, 57-65. Kenardy, J. & Tan, L-J. (2006). The Role of Avoidance Coping in the Disclosure of Trauma. Behaviour Change, 23, 42-54.

Sterling, M. & Kenardy, J. (2006). The relationship between sensory and sympathetic nervous system changes and posttraumatic stress reaction following whiplash injury - a prospective study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60, 387-393.

Kenardy, J., McCafferty, K., & Rosa, V. (2006). Internet-delivered prevention of anxiety disorders: six-month follow-up. Clinical Psychologist, 10, 39-42.