Sunita Stewart, Ph.D.

Undergraduate School

Reed College (1975), Psychology

Graduate School

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1978), Clinical Psychology

Graduate School

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1981), Clinical Psychology

• Cross Cultural and Ethnic Minority Psychology
• Depression and Suicidality in Adolescents
• Prevention

 Featured Publications

Methods in cross-cultural psychopathology

Stewart, S.M Handbook of research methods in abnormal and clinical psychology., D. McKay (ed), in press

Adolescent insomnia, suicide risk, and the interpersonal theory of suicide.

Zullo L, Horton S, Eaddy M, King J, Hughes J, Diederich A, Kennard B, Emslie G, Stewart S Psychiatry Res 2017 Jul 257 242-248

The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide in Adolescents: A Preliminary Report of Changes Following Treatment.

King JD, Horton SE, Hughes JL, Eaddy M, Kennard BD, Emslie GJ, Stewart SM Suicide Life Threat Behav 2017 Mar

Frequency and Methods of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Relation to Acquired Capability for Suicide Among Adolescents.

Matney J, Westers NJ, Horton SE, King JD, Eaddy M, Emslie GJ, Kennard BD, Stewart SM Arch Suicide Res 2017 Jan

Approach to Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria.

Lopez X, Stewart S, Jacobson-Dickman E Pediatr Rev 2016 Mar 37 3 89-98

Preliminary Examination of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Adolescent Clinical Sample.

Horton SE, Hughes JL, King JD, Kennard BD, Westers NJ, Mayes TL, Stewart SM J Abnorm Child Psychol 2015 Dec

Resilience and vulnerability: prolonged grief in the bereaved spouses of marital partners who died of AIDS.

Yu NX, Chan CL, Zhang J, Stewart SM AIDS Care 2015 Nov 1-4

The Validity of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in Adolescence: A Review.

Stewart SM, Eaddy M, Horton SE, Hughes J, Kennard B J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2015 Apr 1-13

Maternal depressive symptoms predict adolescent healthcare utilization and charges in youth with type 1 diabetes.

Clayton, K.M., Stewart, S.M., Wiebe, D.J., McConnel, C.E., Hughes, C.W., and White, P.C. Health Psychology 2013

Validating the Concord Index as a measure of family relationships in China

Lee, P.H. , Stewart, S.M., Lun, V., Bond, M.H., Yu, X., & Lam, T.H. 2012 26 906-915

 Featured Books

 Organ transplantation. In Cognitive aspects of chronic illness in children

. Stewart, S.M., & Kennard, B.D (1999). New York, Guildford Press

 Pakistan: Culture, community and familial obligations in a Muslim society.. In Family structure and function across cultures: Psychological variations

Zaman, R., Stewart, S.M., & Zaman, T.R. (2006). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

 Instrument development for ethnic minority research.. In Encyclopedia of multicultural psychology

Stewart, S.M. (2006). New York, Sage Publications

 Methods in cross-cultural psychopathology. In Handbook of research methods in abnormal and clinical psychology

Stewart, S.M (2007). New York, Sage Publications.

 Cultural considerations and culture-specific disorders.. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology

Stewart, S.M. (2017). Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, Inc.

 Depression in childhood: Cultural factors.. In The Sage Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology.

Stewart, S.M. (2017). Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, Inc.

 Depression. In Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Stewart, S.M. (2013). (2013). New York, John Wiley & Sons

 Hong Kong: Transitions and return to the Motherland.. In Family structure and function across cultures: Psychological variations.

Lee, P.W.H., Stewart, S.M., & Chan, K. (2006). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

 Psychiatric disorders in the Chinese.. In The Second Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology

Stewart, S.M., Lee, P.W.H., & Tao R. (2010). Oxford University Press., Oxford University Press.

• Fellow
  American Psychological Association, Division 52, Division 53 (2018)
• Phi Beta Kappa
  (1975)

• APA, IACCP