Co-editor/Writer of QuitAssist® in Spanish
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Columnist for HOY Newspaper.
Dr. Clauss-Ehlers is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology on the faculty at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She completed her Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University and her predoctoral internship at the New York University Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Clauss-Ehlers writes a column for HOY (Newsday’s sister newspaper in Spanish), is a regular guest correspondent on Univision, and works with various English and Spanish language media outlets nationwide. Her research interests include cultural resilience and protective factors, cultural competence, school mental health, bilingualism in psychotherapy, and parent attachment. She has published extensively in these areas and is writing her third book. Her clinical practice specializes in parenting and family therapy.
She brings a strong scientist/practitioner perspective to the project with special expertise in bilingual/bicultural approaches to research and treatment.
Select published works:
Clauss, C. S. (1998). Cultural intersections and systems levels in counseling. Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 4(2), 127-134.
Clauss, C.S. (1998). Language: The unspoken variable in psychotherapy practice. Journal of Psychotherapy, 35(2), 188-196.
Clauss-Ehlers, C.S. (2004). A framework for school-based mental health promotion with bicultural Latino children: Building on strengths to promote resilience. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 6(2), 26-33.
Clauss-Ehlers, C.S. (2003). Promoting ecological health resilience for minority youth: Enhancing health care access through the school health center. Psychology in the Schools, 40(3), 265-278.
Clauss-Ehlers, C.S. (2004). Re-Inventing resilience: A model of “culturally-focused resilient adaptation.” In C.S. Clauss-Ehlers & M.D. Weist (Eds.), Community planning to foster resilience in children (pp. 27-41). New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Clauss-Ehlers, C.S., & Lopez Levi, L. (2002). Violence and community, terms in conflict: An ecological approach to resilience. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 11(4), 265-278.
QuitAssist® Editors and Review Board| Editor/Writer | Co-editor/Writer of QuitAssist® in Spanish |
| Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D. Harvard Medical School |
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Ph.D. Rutgers University |
| Review Board Members | |
| Jonathan Bloomberg, M.D. University of Illinois College of Medicine |
Jed E. Rose, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center |
| Rafael Art. Javier, Ph.D., ABPP St. John's University |
Robert L. Sokolove, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
