PhD, University of Manitoba
MEd, University of Manitoba
BN, University of Manitoba
 

 Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Child Health 
 

Research Interests: Child and family health promotion, parenting, parent education, use of physical punishment by caregivers and prevention of child abuse. Doctoral research consisted of an examination of the determinants of maternal use of physical punishment and the implications for the prevention of child physical abuse.

Clinical Interests: Pediatrics, child and familyhealth, parenting education, interprofessional education and practice.

Teaching Areas: Growth and development, health promotion in child rearing families, selected pediatric content, senior clinical practicum advisement in the undergraduate nursing program.   
  

Ateah, C., Peto, K., Tutty, L., Radke, L., Nixon, K., Fortier, P., Ursel, J. Mothering, Guiding and Responding to Children: Are There Differences for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence? PrairieAction Foundation (PAF) Community Action, Research and Education (CARE) Grant, 2012.

Durrant, J., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Carreiro, N., & Janke, L. Interrupting the Cycle of Family Violence through Teaching Positive Discipline: Evaluating a Training of Trainers Program. PrairieAction Foundation (PAF) Community Action, Research and Education (CARE) Grant, 2011.

Restall, G, Leclair, L., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Katz, A., Santos, R., Borton, B., & Klassen, G. Screening for Developmental Delay in Young Children (continuation funds). Healthy Child Manitoba, 2011 ($10,000).

Durrant, J., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Barker, L., Tapanya, S., Kearley, C., Peters, R., and Holden, G. for their project entitled Uniting Social Science And Human Rights To Create A New Vision of Parent Education and Its Evaluation: Developing A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Sectoral, Inter-Cultural Paradigm. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2011-2013 ($83,959).

Cohen, B., Anderson, M., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Chartier, M., Feldgaier, S., Harris, H., Harris-Roxas, B., & Serwonka, K. Equity-focused Health Impact Assessment (EfHIA) Study of the Proposed  Teen Triple P Parenting Program. Pilot project funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, in partnership with Healthy Child Manitoba Office, Manitoba Health, 2010-2011 ($191,643).

Ateah, C., (PI) & Letourneau, N. Parent-infant Attachment: Education Needs of New Parents. ($6900). University of Manitoba/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2009.

Restall, G,  Leclair, L., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Katz, A., Santos, R., Borton, B., & Klassen, G. Screening for Developmental Delay in Young Children. Manitoba Medical Services Foundation and Manitoba Institute of Child Health, 2008 ($20,000). 

Suter, E., Ho., K., Bainbridge, L., Grymonpre, R., Ateah, C. (Co-I), Jarvis-Selinger, S., & Harrison, E. Can Interprofessional Collaboration Provide Health Human Resources Solutions? A Knowledge Synthesis. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2008 ($100,000).

Ateah, C. (PI), Edwards, M. & Durrant, J. Disciplining Children: The Parent’s Perspective, Manitoba Institute for Child Health, 2007 ($33,900).

Anderson, J. (PI), Ateah, C. (Co-Lead activities), Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice: The Manitoba Initiative Health Canada, 2006-2008 ($749,573).

Ateah, C. (PI), Parenting Competence Intervention: A Pilot Study. University of Manitoba/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005 ($4358).

Ateah, C. (PI), & Hamelin, K. Parent and Infant Co-sleeping Practices. Manitoba Institute of Child Health, 2004 ($4524).
  

Books
Chow, J., Ateah, C.A., Scott, S., Ricci, S., & Kyle, T. (2012). Canadian maternity and pediatric nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Ateah, C.A., Scott, S.D., and Kyle, T. (2012). Canadian essentials of pediatric nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

Ateah, C.A., Kail, R., & Cavanaugh, J. (2008). Human development: A life span view. Second Canadian Edition. Toronto: Nelson.

Kail, R., Cavanaugh, J., & Ateah, C.A. (2005). Human development: A life span view. First Canadian edition. Toronto: Nelson.

Ateah, C.A., & Mirwaldt, J. (Eds.) (2004). Within our reach: Preventing abuse across the lifespan. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing and RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse).

Journals
Ateah, C.A. (2013). Prenatal parent education for first-time expectant parents:  "Making it through labor is the beginning.” Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 27 (2), 91-97 doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2011.06.019.

Suter, E., Deutschlander, S., Mickelson, G., Nurani, Z., Lait, J., Harrison, L., Jarvis-Selinger, S., Bainbridge, L, Achilles, S., Ateah, C., Ho, K., & Grymonpre, R. (2012). Can interprofessional collaboration provide health human resources solutions? A knowledge synthesis. Journal of Interprofessional Care 26, 261-268.

Snow, W., Wener, P., MacDonald, L., Ateah, C., Davis, P., Fricke, M., Metge, C., Ludwig, S., and Anderson, J. (2011). Student-identified participation barriers to interprofessional education. Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, 1(2): 19-27.

Anderson, J. E., Ateah, C., Wener, P., Snow, W., Metge, C.,MacDonald, L., Fricke, M., Ludwig, S., & Davis, P. (2011). Differences in pre-licensure interprofessional learning: Classroom vs. practice settings.  Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education. Available at: http://www.jripe.org/index.php/journal/article/view/54/47.

Ateah, C.A., Snow, W., Wener, P., MacDonald, L., Metge, C., Davis, P., Fricke, M.,  Ludwig, S., & Anderson, J. (2011). Stereotyping as a barrier to collaboration:  Does interprofessional education make a difference? Nurse Education Today 31, 208-213.

Ateah, C.A., & Cohen, I.J. (2009). School victimization and bullying experiences: Cross national comparisons between Canada and the United States. Currents: New Scholarship in the Human Services 8 (1) http://www.ucalgary.ca/currents/files/currents/

Ateah, C. A., & Hamelin K.J. (2008). Maternal bedsharing practices, experiences, and awareness of risks. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 37 (3), 274-281.

Woodgate, R., Ateah, C., & Secco, L. (2008). Living in a World of Our Own: The Experience of Parents who Have a Child with Autism. Qualitative Health Research, 18 (8), 1075-1083.

Ateah, C.A., & Durrant, J., (2005). Maternal use of physical punishment in response to child misbehavior: Implications for child abuse prevention. Child Abuse and Neglect, 29 (2), 177-193.
 

Lee, C.M., Lamonde, A., Ateah, C., Beech, B., Dennis, D., Easton, D., Feldgaier, S., Smith, S, Stern, S, The International Parenting Survey-Canada: A novel way to work with community partners. Symposium presentation at the Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Quebec City, June, 2013.

LaRoche, K., Lee, C.M., Ateah, C.A., Changing tides: Physical punishment by Canadian parents. Symposium presentation at the Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Quebec City, June, 2013.

Durrant, J.E., Plateau,D.P., Ateah. C., Barker, L., Holden, G., Kearley, C., MacAulay, J., Peters, R. deV., Stewart-Tufescu, A., Tapanya, S. Preventing punitive violence against children: Impact evaluation of the Positive Discipline program. Presentation at the Conference of the International Society for the Study of Social Indicators, Seoul, Korea, May 2013.

Durrant, J.E., Ateah, C., Barker, L., Holden, G., Kearley, C., MacAulay, J., Peters, R. DeV., Plateau, D.P., Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Tapanya, S. “What do I do instead?” Helping parents make the shift from physical punishment to positive discipline. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.  Seattle, WA, April 2013.

Ateah, C.A, Peto, K., Fortier, P., Radke, L., Nixon, K., & Tutty, L.An examination of the effects of intimate partner violence on mothering, guiding and responding to children. Presented at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse) Research Day, Regina, SK. October 2012.

Ateah, C.A., Durrant, J., & Edwards, M. Parents’ perceptions of physical punishment and their ideas about strategies to end it. Poster presentation at the Manitoba Institute for Child Health (MICH) 8th Annual Child Health Research Day, Winnipeg, MB, October 2012.

Durrant, J.E., Ateah, C.,  Barker, L., Holden, G., MacAulay, J.,  Peters, R DeV., Plateau,  D.P., Tapanya, S., & Stewart-Tufescu, A. Going global: Developing an international approach to preventing violence against children. Poster presentation at the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Edmonton, AB, July 2012.

Ateah, C., Barker, L., Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Durrant, J. Viewing children differently: Promoting healthy child development and preventing violence through Positive Discipline. First National Pediatric Nursing Conference: Canadian Nurses Partnering for Children's Health, Toronto, ON, May, 2012.

Ateah, C.A., MacDonald, L., Amara, F., Dean, H., Fricke, M., Grymonpre, R., Jensen, F., Sullivan, T., Swinamer, J., & Weinberg, L. Developing a process for faculty development in interprofessional education: The University of Manitoba experience. Poster presentation at Collaborating Across Borders Conference III, Tucson, AZ, November 2011. 

Enns, M., Ateah, C., Brown, R., Dean, H., Falk, W/ Forte, E., Goodwin, B., Harder, N.,   Sharkey, B., & Thielman, A. Simulating night shift: An IPE experience. Poster presentation at Collaborating Across Borders III, Tucson, AZ, November 2011.

Ateah, C.A., Durrant, J., & Edwards, M. Parents’ perceptions of physical punishment and their ideas about strategies to end it. Poster presentation at the Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline, Dallas TX, June 2011.

Ateah, C.A. Durrant, J., & Edwards, M. Learning about parents’ perspectives of discipline to promote a positive parenting approach. Presented at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse) Research Day, Calgary, AB, November 2010.

Nixon, K., Tutty, L., Radtke, L., Goard, C., McDonald-Harker, C., Van Brunschot, E., &  Ateah, C. The protective strategies of abused mothers: Usage and efficacy. Presented at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse) Research Day, Calgary, AB, November 2010.

Ateah, C.A., Edwards, M., & Durrant, J. Parents’ perspectives of discipline with young children. Presented at the Qualitative Health Research Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2010.