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Peer Reviewed

Payeur, R., Nixon, M.K., Bourin, M., Bradwejn, & Legrand, J.M. (1993). The potential role of cholecystokinin in schizophrenia: Review and update. European Journal of Psychiatry, 8, pp. 67-68.

Nixon, M.K, Hascoet, M., Bourin, M., & Colombel, M.C. (1994). Additive effects of lithium and antidepressants in for the forced swimming test: Further evidence for involvement of the serotonergic system. Psychopharmacology, 115, pp. 59-64.

Nixon, M.K. (1999). Mood disorders in children and adolescents: Coming of age [Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 24(3), p. 207.

Gérin-Lajoie, C., Nixon, M.K., & Cloutier, P. (2001). Substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidity in an adolescent partial hospitalization program. The Canadian Child Psychiatry Review, 10(1), pp. 6-10.

 Nixon, M.K., Milin, R., Simeon, J.G., Cloutier, P., & Spenst, W. (2001). Sertraline effects in adolescent major depression and dysthymia: A 6-month open trial. Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 11(2), pp. 131-142.

Nixon, M.K., Cloutier, P., & Aggarwal, S. (2002). Affect regulation and addictive aspects of repetitive self-injury in hospitalized adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41(11), pp. 1333-1341.

Nixon, M.K., Cheng, M., & Cloutier, P. (2003). An open trial of auricular acupuncture for the treatment of repetitive self-injury in depressed adolescents. Canadian Child Psychiatry Review, 12(1), pp. 10-11.

Nixon M.K., McLagan L., Landell S., Carter A.., Deshaw M. (2004). Developing and piloting community based self injury treatment groups for adolescents and their parents. Canadian Academy of  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review, 13(3), pp. 62-67.

Simeon, J., Nixon, M.K., Milin, R., Jovanovic, R., Walker, S. (2005). Open-Label Pilot Study of St John’s Wort in Adolescent Depression. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 15(2), pp. 293-301.

Nixon, M. K., Cloutier, P., Jansson, M., (2008)  Non-Suicidal Self Harm in Youth: A Population Based Survey, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 178(3); 306-12

Morris, A.,  Nixon, M.K.., Keyes, R.., Ashmore, D. (2009) Early Psychosis Intervention Service for Children and Youth: A Retrospective Chart Review of the First Four Years, Early Intervention in Psychiatry(3); 99-107 .

Cloutier, P., Martin, J., Kennedy, A., Nixon, M.K., Muehlenkamp, J.J.(2010). Characteristics and Co-occurrence of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behaviours in pediatric emergency crisis services. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39 259-269.

Plener, P., Fischer, C., In-Albon, T., Rollet, B., Nixon, M.K., Groschwitz, R., Schmid, M., (2013) Adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in German-speaking countries: Comparing prevalence rates from three community samples,  Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol DOI 10.1007/s00127-012-0645-z

Martin, J., Cloutier, P. F., Levesque, C., Bureau, J.-F., Lafontaine, M.-F., & Nixon, M. K. (2013). Psychometric Properties of the Functions and Addictive Features Scales of the Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory: A Preliminary Investigation Using a University Sample,. Psychological Assessment. DOI 10.1037/a0032575

 Nixon, MK, Levesque, C., Preyde, M., Vanderkooy, J., Cloutier, P.,(2015) The Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory: Evaluation of an assessment measure of non-suicidal self-injury in an inpatient sample of adolescents, Ch and Adol Psych and Mental Health , 9(1):26. DOI:10.1186/s13034-015-0056-5

Charach, A., McLennan J.,  Bélanger,  S. A., Nixon, M.K., (2017) Screening for Disruptive Behaviour Problems in Preschool Children in Primary Health Care Settings, Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal de l’Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent 26(3):172-178, DOI10.1093/pch/pxx198A

Non-Peer Reviewed

Nixon M.K., (2006, July), Researchers Aim to Know More about Self-Injury in Adolescents,  Centre for Youth and Society Newsletter, University of Victoria

 Nixon M.K., (2006, December), Developing the Interdisciplinary National Self-Injury in Youth Network Canada (INSYNC), Centre for Youth and Society Newsletter, University of Victoria

Book

 Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

Book Chapters

Bourin, M., Bradwejn, J., & Nixon, M.K. (1993). Provocative agents and the biology of panic attacks; anxiety: Neurobiology, clinic and therapeutic perspectives. In M. Hamon, H. Ollat, M.H. Thiébot (Eds.) Colloque INSERM/John Libbey Eurotext Ltd. (pp. 15-23).

 Nixon M.K., Aulakh, H., Townsend, L., & Atherton M., Psychosocial Interventions for Adolescents with Non Suicidal Self Injury In: Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

Vale H., Nixon, M.K.  & Kucharski A. Working with Families of Self-injuring Adolescents In: Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

Plener, P., Libal, G., & Nixon, M.K.,  A Guide to the Use of Medication in the Treatment of Non Suicidal Self Injury in Youth In: Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

Heath, N., Nixon, M.K., Assessment of Non Suicidal Self Injury in Youth In: Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

Heath, N., Holly, E., Schaub, K., Nixon, M.K.  Self Injury Today: A Review of Population Studies In: Nixon, M. K., & Heath, N. L. (2009). Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention. New York: Routledge Press.

 Editorials

 Nixon, M.K. (2004). The Media and Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ReView, (13):1, p. 1.

Nixon, M.K., (2004). Practicing Child Psychiatry: Life in the Clinic after June, 2003, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ReView, (13):4, p. 95.

Nixon, M.K. (2005). Theme Issues and the ReView, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ReView, (14):1, p. 1.

 Nixon, M.K., (2005). Something New for the ReView: Introducing Clinical Case Rounds for Child Psychiatry, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ReView, (14):3, p. 67.

Nixon, M.K., (2005). Ongoing Transitions and the ReView, Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ReView, (14):4, p. 95.

Nixon, M.K, (2008). JCACAP now on PubMed and PubMed Central,  J.Can.Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 May; 17(2): p.4
 

Nixon, M.K. (2008). Parting Words, J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 17(3):p.120–121

Wilkes, T.W.C., Nixon, M. K. (2015, February) Pharmacological Treatment of Child and Adolescent Disruptive Behaviour Disorders: Between the Scylla and Charybdis, What Do the Data Say?, Canadian Journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie 60(2):39-41DOI10.1177/070674371506000201

Nixon M.K. (2017, October) Understanding Self Injury in Young People: A Clinician Researcher’s Approach, in Self Injury in Young People, From Self Harm to Self Care,  Visions Online Publication, Here to Help BC.

 

Book Reviews

Nixon, M.K. (2000, May/June). Clinical Child Psychiatry (Klylylo, Kay and Rube, eds.). Paediatrics & Child Health, 5(4), pp. 244-245.

Nixon, M.K. (2004, September). Practical Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (S. Kutcher ed.). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 49(9), pp. 640-641.

 Nixon, M.K. (August, 2008), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents ( Miller, A., et al). Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 17(3): p.162–163.

 

 

Mary K. Nixon

Mary Kay Nixon

 

Mary K. Nixon MD FRCPC

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Victoria

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Dr. Nixon practices now very part time as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Victoria, British Columbia. She consults for Island Health Telehealth and the Transitional Pediatric Care Clinic at Queen Alexandra Health Center. She has had a community/team based practice with Saanich Child and Youth Mental Health and Project Alive (an early intervention service for suicidal adolescents), and worked in early intervention for youth with psychosis (EPI) at the Queen Alexandra Health Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and an Affiliate Associate Professor with the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Victoria. Dr. Nixon is the founding editor of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She was the network leader for INSYNC (Interdisciplinary National Self-Injury in Youth Network of Canada), a group of researchers studying self-injury across Canada that was initiated in 2005.

Dr. Nixon was the Head of the Mood and Anxiety Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario as well as the Director of Psychiatry Research. She developed  the Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory (OSI) and OSI-Functions, as self report assessment tools for youth and adults who self-injure. She has published a number of articles including in the area of self injury. She. co-edited  and contributed to a number of chapters in the book Self Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Interventions, Routledge Press, 2009.