Bridget Klest
Adjunct Professor
Website: http://uregina.ca/~schtlab
Research interests
- interrelations among trauma/negative event exposure
- social context (including interpersonal relationships and institutional affiliations of perpetrators)
- well-being
- institutional responses to trauma exposure
- negative healthcare experiences
- overt discrimination
- microaggressions
- Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation
Representative Publications
Tamaian, A., & Klest, B. (2018). Institutional betrayal in the Canadian medical system: Reliability and validity of a self-report questionnaire. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 27(7), 703-719.
Klest, B., Tamaian, A., & Boughner, E. (2019). A model exploring the relationship between betrayal trauma and health: The roles of mental health, attachment, trust in healthcare systems, and nonadherence to treatment. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy. 11(6), 656–662.
Lett, K., Tamaian, A., & Klest, B. (2019). Impact of ableist microaggressions on university students with self-identified disabilities. Disability & Society, 1-16.
Tamaian, A., & Klest, B. (2017). Institutional Betrayal in the Canadian Medical System: Reliability and Validity of a Self-Report Questionnaire. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &Trauma, 1-17.Klest, B., Tamaian, A., & Mutschler, C. (2017). Betrayal Trauma, Health Care Relationships, and Health in Patients with a Chronic Neurovascular Condition. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment& Trauma, 26(1), 18-33.
Tamaian, A., & Klest, B. (2017). Ethnic discrimination and institutional betrayal on campus. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Portland, OR, April 6-9