Kathleen Kendall-Tacket, Ph.d., is an active award-winning researcher and author in the fields of developmental and health psychology. A Research Associate at the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, she is the author of Postpartum Depression: A Comprehensive Approach for Nurses (Sage, 1993), over 50 journal articles and book chapters on child maltreatment, postpartum depression and breastfeeding and serves on the editorial boards of Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal and the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.