SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS  – Go to https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dianna_Kenny  for all listings and full texts

Psychotherapy research

Kenny, D.T. & Holmes, J. (2015). Exploring the attachment narrative of a professional musician with severe performance anxiety: A case study. Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 5, 190. doi: 10.4172/2161-0487.1000190.

Kenny, D. T. (2014). The “mother” in attachment theory and attachment-informed psychotherapy. In P. Bueskens (Ed.). Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological & Feminist Perspectives. London: Demeter Press.

Kenny, D.T., Arthey, S. & Abbass, A. (2014). Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) for severe music performance anxiety: Assessment, process, and outcome of psychotherapy with a professional orchestral musician. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 29, 1: 3–7.

Kenny, D.T. (2007). Stress management. In Ayers, S., Baum, A., McManus, C., Newman, S., Wallston, K., Weinman, J., West, R. (Eds) Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2nd edition). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Music research

Kenny, D.T. (2015). Morbidity and mortality in popular musicians: An examination by era, sex and music genre. In: Stamatios-Alexandrou, A. and Cooper, C. (Eds.) (in press). Coping, Personality and the Workplace: Responding to Psychological Crisis and Critical Events. Surrey, UK: Gower.

Kenny, D.T. and Ackermann, B. (2015). Optimising physical and psychological health in performing musicians. In Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, Michael Thaut (eds.)(2nd ed.). Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kenny, D.T., Driscoll, T. & Ackermann, B. (2015). Pain, psychosocial health indicators and workplace satisfaction in professional musicians in stage, pit, and combined stage/pit orchestras. Medical Problems of Performing Artists.

Kenny, D.T., Driscoll, T., & Ackermann, B. (2014). Psychological well-being in professional orchestral musicians in Australia: A descriptive population study. Psychology of Music, 42(2), 210-232.

Ackermann, B.J., Kenny, D.T., O’Brien, I., Driscoll, T.R. (2014). Sound Practice: Improving occupational health and safety for professional orchestral musicians in Australia. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-11.

Kenny, D.T., Fortune, J. & Ackermann, B. (2013). Predictors of music performance anxiety in skilled tertiary level flute players. Psychology of Music, 41(3), 304 – 326.

Ackermann, B., Driscoll, T., & Kenny, D.T. (2012). Musculoskeletal pain and injury in professional orchestral musicians in Australia. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, December, 181-187.

Ackermann, B., Kenny, D.T. & Fortune, J. (2010). Incidence of injury and attitudes to injury management in skilled flute players. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, & Rehabilitation (Special issue on Performing Artists)

Kenny, D.T. (2009). Negative emotions in music making: Performance anxiety. In Juslin, P. & Sloboda, J. (Eds). Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory, Research, Applications, pp. 425-451. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Osborne, M. S., & Kenny, D.T. (2008). The role of sensitizing experiences in music performance anxiety in adolescent musicians. Psychology of Music, 36, 4, 447-462.

Osborne, M.S., Kenny D.T., & Cooksey, J. (2007). Impact of a music performance enhancement program and program adherence on self-reported anxiety, heart rate, EMG and performance quality in secondary school music students. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue, 53-84. (Invitation to DT Kenny for submission to Special Edition).

Kenny, D.T. & Osborne, M. S. (2006). Music performance anxiety: New insights from young musicians. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 2, 2-3, 103-112.

Osborne, M. S., & Kenny, D.T. (2005). Development and validation of a music performance anxiety inventory for gifted adolescent musicians. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 19, 7, 725-751.

Kenny, D.T. (2005). A systematic review of treatment for music performance anxiety. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 18, 3,183-208.

Kenny, D.T., Davis, P. & Oates, J. (2004). Music performance anxiety and occupational stress amongst opera chorus artists and their relationship with state and trait anxiety and perfectionism. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18, 6, 757-777.

Children and adolescents – Developmental research

Kenny, D.T., Blacker, S. & Allerton, M. (2014). Reculer pour mieux sauter: A review of attachment and other developmental processes inherent in identified risk factors for juvenile delinquency and juvenile offending. LAWS, 3, 439–468; doi:10.3390/laws3030439.

Kenny, D.T. (2014). Mental health concerns and behavioural problems in young offenders in the criminal justice system. Judicial Officers’ Bulletin (Judicial Commission of NSW), 26 (4), 29-33.

Kenny, D.T. (2013). Violent young offenders in the criminal justice system. Judicial Officers’ Bulletin (Judicial Commission of NSW), 25 (3), 19-24.

Kenny, D.T. (2012). Young offenders with an intellectual disability in the criminal justice system: Prevalence, profile, policy, planning and programming. Judicial Officers’ Bulletin (Judicial Commission of NSW), 24, 5, 35-42.

Jensen, P. Stevens, S., & Kenny, D.T. (2012). Effects of yoga breathing on the behaviour and attention of boys with ADHD. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2, 4, 667-681. DOI 10.1007/s10826-011-9519-3.

Kenny, D.T. & Frize, M. (2010). Intellectual disability, Aboriginal status and risk of re-offending in young offenders on community orders. Special Edition, Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, 18, 14-19.

Ashkar, P. & Kenny, D.T. (2009). Young offenders’ perceptions of school: An ecological analysis. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 16, 3, 355-365.

Kenny, D.T. & Schreiner, I. (2009). Predictors of unsafe alcohol consumption in young offenders on community orders: Policy and treatment implications. Psychology, Public Policy and the Law, 51, 1, 54-79.

Kenny, D.T., Lennings, C.J. & Munn, O.A. (2008). Risk factors for self-harm and suicide in incarcerated young offenders: Implications for policy and practice. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 8, 4, 358 – 382.

Kenny, D. T. & Lennings, C. J. & Nelson, P. (2008). Mental health of young offenders serving orders in the community: Implications for rehabilitation. In Daniel W. Phillips III (Edited). Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System. New York: Haworth Press.

Frize, M., Kenny, D.T. & Lennings, C. (2008). Relationship between intellectual disability, indigenous status and risk of re-offending in juvenile offenders. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52, 6, 510 – 519.

Kenny, D. T. & Lennings, C. J. & Nelson, P. (2008). The mental health of young offenders serving orders in the community: Implications for rehabilitation. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation (Special Edition), 45, 1 and 2, 123-148.

Ashkar, P. & Kenny, D.T. (2008). Views from the inside: Young offenders’ subjective experiences of incarceration. Journal of Criminology and Offender Therapy, 52, 5, 584-597.

Lennings, C. J. & Kenny, D.T.,Howard, J., Arcuri, A., Mackdacy, L. (2007). The relationship between substance abuse and delinquency in female adolescents in Australia. Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law, 14, 1, 100–110.

Kenny, D. T. & Grant, J. (2007). Reliability of self-report of health in adolescent offenders. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 2, 2, 127-141.

Ashkar, P. & Kenny, D.T. (2007). Moral reasoning of adolescent male offenders: Comparison of sexual and nonsexual offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 108-118.

Lennings, C., Kenny, D.T., Nelson, P. (2006). Substance use and treatment seeking in young offenders on community orders. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 31(4), 425-432.

Kenny, D.T., & Faunce, G. (2004). Effects of academic coaching on elementary and secondary school students. Journal of Educational Research, 98, 2, 115-126.

Jensen, P.S., & Kenny D.T. (2004). The impact of yoga on the behaviour of boys with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 7, 4, 209-216

Kenny, D.T., Keogh, T., & Seidler, K. (2001). Predictors of recidivism in Australian juvenile sex offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 13, 2, 131-148.

Kenny, D.T., Seidler, K., Keogh, T., & Blasczynski, A., (2000). Offence and clinical characteristics of Australian juvenile sex offenders. Psychiatry, Psychology, and the Law, 7, 2, 212-227.

Kenny, D.T. (2000). Psychological foundations of stress and coping: A developmental perspective. In D.T. Kenny, J. G. Carlson, F. J. McGuigan, and J. L. Sheppard, (Eds.). Stress and health: Research and clinical applications. Ryde, NSW: Gordon Breach Science/Harwood Academic Publishers (pp. 73-104).

Kenny, D.T. & Adams R. D. (1995). Preclinical signs and lifestyle correlates of the eating disorders. In D.T. Kenny and R. F. S. Job (Eds.). Australia’s Adolescents: A Health Psychology Perspective. Armidale: University of New England Press (pp 45-52).

Kenny, D.T. & Waters, B. (1995). Current issues in adolescent mental health. In D.T. Kenny and R.F.S. Job (Eds). Australia’s Adolescents: A Health Psychology Perspective. Armidale: University of New England Press (pp 68-88).

Workplace injury and occupational stress research

Kenny, D.T. & McIntyre D. (2009). Occupational stress, personality, and social processes: Paradigms or permutations? In A-S Antoniou and Cary Cooper (Ed). New Perspectives in Occupational Health. Athens, Greece: ION Publishing.

Kenny, D.T. & McIntyre D. (2005). Constructions of occupational stress: Nuisance, nuance or novelty? (Chapter 2, pp. 20-58). In A-S Antoniou and Cary Cooper (Ed). Research Companion to Organizational Health Psychology. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Kenny, D.T. (2000). Occupational stress: Reflections on theory and practice. In D.T. Kenny, J. G. Carlson, F. J. McGuigan, and J. L. Sheppard, (Eds.). Stress and health: Research and clinical applications. Ryde, NSW: Gordon Breach Science/Harwood Academic Publishers (pp. 375-396).

Schonstein, E. & Kenny, D.T. (2000). Diagnoses and treatment recommendations on workers’ compensation medical certificates. Medical Journal of Australia, 173, 419-422.

Kenny, D.T. (2000). Exercise-based rehabilitation for injured workers: Program efficacy and identification of factors predicting program completion and outcome. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 23, 1, 7-17.

Kenny, D.T. (1999). Employers’ perspectives on the provision of suitable duties in occupational rehabilitation. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 9, 4, 269‑278.

Kenny, D.T. (1998). The role of rehabilitation providers in occupational rehabilitation: Providing for whom? Part 2: Perceptions of key stakeholders. Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 4, 2, 111-122.

Kenny, D.T. (1998). The role of rehabilitation providers in occupational rehabilitation: Providing for whom? Part 1: Self-perceptions. Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 4, 2, 97-110.

Kenny, D.T. (1998). Returning to work following workplace injury: Impact of worker and workplace factors. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 29, 1, 13-19.

Kenny, D.T. (1996). The role, functions and effectiveness of the treating doctor in the management of occupational injury. Perceptions of key stakeholders. Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, 2, 2, 86-98.

Kenny, D.T. (1996). The treating doctor and occupational injury: A systemic analysis. International Journal of Psychology, 31, 3 & 4, 97.

Kenny, D.T. (1996). Factors influencing return to work following workplace injury. International Journal of Psychology, 31, 3 & 4, 118.

Kenny, D.T. (1996). Occupational rehabilitation assessed: The verdict of employers. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, 12, 2, 145-156.

Kenny, D.T. (1995). Barriers to occupational rehabilitation in New South Wales. In A. Davidson, M. C. Dinh, M. H. Fitzgerald, J. M. Lingard (Eds.). Current topics in the health sciences. Sydney: Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney (pp. 21-22).

Kenny, D.T. (1994). Determinants of time lost from workplace injury: The impact of the injury, the injured, the industry, the intervention and the insurer. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 17, 4, 333-342.

Mediation and dispute resolution research

Kwok, E. & Kenny, D.T. (2015).The application of collaborative practice to misattributedpaternity disputes. Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal.