Dr. Katreena Scott

Biography

Katreena Scott is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, specializing in Applied Psychology. She holds a BA from Queen's University, an MA and PhD from Western University, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of New Hampshire. Scott has spent her career primarily at the University of Toronto, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention before moving to Western. She is the Academic Director of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children (CREVAWC), the largest such center in Canada. Her research focuses on understanding and preventing violence in relationships, particularly associated with gender-based violence and child welfare. Scott's work includes significant collaborations with community partners and addresses complex questions surrounding the prevention of gender-based violence in educational and workplace settings. She has developed programs such as Caring Dads, currently running in multiple countries, aimed at improving the well-being of children exposed to domestic violence. Over the past five years, her publications have contributed significantly to the academic discourse on domestic violence and child welfare, with numerous articles in respected journals. She teaches various courses related to mental health literacy, child and adolescent assessments, and gender-based violence response strategies, actively supervising graduate students in their research endeavors at Western University.

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