Kayreen Burns, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita

kburns@mail.barry.edu

Dr. Burns is a clinical psychologist, licensed in the state of Florida, who has been at Barry since 1992. Prior to coming to Barry, she served for ten years as a member of the Psychology faculty at Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Burns obtained her B.S. in Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, her M.Ed. in Special Education--Learning Disabilities from the University of North Dakota and her Ph.D. (1981) from Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Burns’ specialty is child clinical/developmental and psychological assessment.

Research Interests

• The use of neuropsychological assessment to evaluate development and dysfunction in children and adults
• The use of MMPI-2 and MMPI-A to predict behavior and classify groups
• The quality of mother-infant interactions

Selected Supervised Student Research

• Haynes, J. (2002). Comparison of the neuropsychological performance of HIV+ adolescents and controls. Poster presented at the annual conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Miami, FL. (Master’s thesis)
• Valdes, G. (2000). The impact of bilingualism on cognitive skills and self esteem. (MARC undergraduate research)
• Beck, S. (1999). Increasing the non-academic self-concept of learning disabled children in the Vygotskian tradition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO.
• Valdes, D. (1999). A comparison of the quality of mother-infant interaction among four groups of mother-infant dyads. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Miami, FL. (Undergraduate independent research)
• Burroto, Y. (1998). Physical and developmental milestone patterns during life’s first year. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Mobile, AL. (Undergraduate independent research)
• Perez, D. (1997). Longitudinal neuropsychological assessment of high risk children age 5-11. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Las Vegas, NV. (Master’s thesis)
• Bosque, M. (1996). Effects of parental divorce and parental conflict on self esteem. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Norfolk, VA. (Undergraduate independent research)
• Mucenic, M. C. (1995). Neuropsychological assessment of HIV+ adolescents. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Francisco, CA. (Master’s thesis)
• Palatnik, L. (1995). Translation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children into Portuguese: Pilot at age 7 years. (Master’s thesis)

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Burns, K. & Shine, A. (1998). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects—Parents. In A. Canter & S. Carroll (Eds.). Helping Children at Home and School. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists, pp. 587-590.
• Burns, K., Chethik, L., Burns, W. & Clark, R. (1997). The early relationship of drug abusing mothers and their infants: An assessment at eight to twelve months of age. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 53, 1-9.
• Burns, K., Burns, W., & Deddish, R. (1994, June). Social. emotional, and neuropsychological outcome at school age of children with perinatal complication. International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France.
• Burns, W., Burns, K., & Kobacoff, R. (1992). Item and factor analysis of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. In Advances in infancy research, Vol. 7 (pp. 199-214). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.

Professional Memberships

• American Psychological Society
• Teaching of Psychology: Division 2 of the American Psychological Association
• Sigma Xi
• Society of Research in Child Development
• National Academy of Neuropsychology
• American Association of University Professors

Undergraduate Courses

• Life-Span Developmental
• Theories of Personality
• Writing in Psychology

Graduate Courses

• Clinical Assessment I & II
• Clinical Practicum Supervision
• Developing Clinical Skills: Modules I, II & III