Sunita Stewart, PhD

Professor
Psychiatry
Graduate Program: Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-456-5927
Office Fax: 214-456-4235

sunita.stewart@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Sunita Stewart has been affiliated with UT Southwestern since 1984. She was Director of Psychological Services at Children’s Medical Center from 1984 to 1992, and returned to this position September 2005.

Her areas of clinical specialty are: cross-cultural psychopathology, prevention, parenting, and management of mood and adherence problems in adolescents with chronic ilness.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst (1981)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst (1978)
UndergraduateReed College (1975)

Research Interests

Adolescent Psychopathology
Cross Cultural Psychology
Pediatric Health Psychology
Prevention

Publications

Featured
Repeat suicide attempts in Hong Kong community adolescents

Wong, J.P.S., Stewart, S.M., Claassen, C., Lee, P.W.H, Rao, U., & Lam, T.H , Social Science and Medicine , 2008; (66):232-241

Featured
Depressive symptoms predict hospitalization in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes

Stewart, S.M., Rao, U., Emslie, G, Klein, D., & White, P. , Pediatrics , 2005; (115):1315-1319

Featured
A cross-cultural investigation of cognitions and depressive symptoms in adolescents.

Stewart, S.M., Kennard, B.D., Lee, P.W.H., Hughes, C.W., Mayes, T., Emslie, G., & Lewinsohn, P. , Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 2004; (113):248-257.

Featured
Methods in cross-cultural psychopathology

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

Featured
Hopelessness and suicidal ideation among adolescents in two cultures.

Stewart, S.M., Kennard, B.D., Lee, P.W.H., Mayes, T., Hughes, C.W., & Emslie, G. , Journal of Child Psychology, Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , ; (46):364-372.

Factor structure of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale in Hong Kong adolescents.

Lee, S.W., Stewart, S.M., Byrne, B., Wong, J.P.S., Ho, S.Y., Lee, P.W.H., & Lam, T.H. , Journal of Personality Assessment , 2008; (90):1-11.

Maternal depressive symptoms in pediatric major depressive disorder: Relationship to acute treatment outcome

Kennard, B.D., Hughes, J.L., Stewart, S.M., Mayes, T., Nightingale-Teresi, J., Tao, R., Carmody, T., & Emslie, G.J , Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, , 2008; (47):548-55

Validation of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale for use with Hong Kong adolescents.

Lee, S.W., Stewart, S.M., Striegel-Moore, R.H., Lee, S., Ho, S.Y., Lee, P.W.H., Katzman, M.A., & Lam, T.H. , International Journal of Eating Disorders , 2007; (40):569-574.

Diabetes, depression and metabolic control in Latinas.

Olvera, A.P., Stewart, S.M., Galindo, L., & Stephens, J. , Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology , 2007; (13):225-231.

Cognitions and depressive symptoms among minority adolescents.

Kennard, B., Stewart, S.M., Hughes, J., Patel, P., & Emslie, G. , Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology , ; (12):578-591.

Honors/Awards

Phi Beta Kappa

(1975)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

APA, IACCP, AAAP