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Psychology Department (0436)
109 Williams Hall
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6581
Fax: 540-231-3652
Email: psycinfo@vt.edu
Kristy E Benoit
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Graduate Student Psychology Department

Graduate Clinician Child Study Center

benoit@vt.edu


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Kristy is a third year doctoral student in the clinical program. She was born and raised in a small village in Nova Scotia, and while she still misses the view of the ocean from her kitchen window, she's quickly adjusted to the mountains of Virginia. Kristy graduated from Harvard in 2004, earning a B.A. in psychology with high honors, magna cum laude. She was afforded the opportunity to work with Dr. Ron Rapee in Sydney, Australia while collecting data for her senior thesis. Before coming to Virginia Tech, Kristy embarked on an around-the-world backpacking trip that took her to 24 different countries and worked in Canada as an advocate for individuals with severe and chronic mental illness. Her hobbies include travel, watching hockey, cooking, and running.

Background

  • 2007-2009 M.S. Clinical Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  • 2000-2004 B.A. Psychology, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

Research/Professional Interests

  • My research interests focus on childhood anxiety and include parental behaviors, perceptions, and psychopathology, interpersonal processes, attentional biases, cultural influences, and comobidity with oppositional defiant disorder.

Publications

Benoit, K. E., McNally, R. J, Rapee, R. M., Gamble, A. L., & Wiseman, A. L. (2007). Processing of emotional faces in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. Behaviour Change, 24, 183-194.
Ollendick, T. H., Costa, N. M., & Benoit, K. E. (in press). Interpersonal processes and the anxiety disorders of childhood. In G. Beck (Eds.), Interpersonal processes in the anxiety disorders: Implications for understanding psychopathology. Washington, DC: APA Books.
Costa, N. M, Benoit, K. E., & Ollendick, T. H. (in press). Interpersonal issues in treating children and adolescents. In L. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment, and therapeutic interventions. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons.