Diane Benoit

Dr. Diane Benoit is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Project Investigator in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Staff Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. She completed medical school at l’Université de Sherbrooke in Québec (Canada), and her psychiatry residency at l’Université de Sherbrooke in Québec and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (United States of America). She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry and a post-doctoral fellowship in infant psychiatry at Brown University. She worked as a staff psychiatrist and child and adolescent psychiatrist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, from 1988 to 1992. She has been in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children since 1992. Her research, educational and clinical activities have focused on (a) the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in young children; (b) child-caregiver attachment relationships; (c) the impact of violence, abuse, and neglect on children; (d) trauma-focused and attachment-focused assessments and interventions; and (e) caregivers’ perceptions and subjective experience of their children and relationship with them. She has published in peer-reviewed, scientific publications and other publications, and has made numerous presentations related to these various topics across North America and abroad.