Professor of psychology and the Director of Interagencies Training, Research Initiatives, and Postgraduate Professional Development Programs, St. John's University, New York City.
He is on the faculty and a supervisor at New York University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, and the Object Relations Institute.
Prior to joining St. John's University, he was the head of psychology at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center and on the faculty at Downstate Medical Center. His research interests include the development of smoking cessation program for Latino smokers, effects of violence on children from diverse populations, and effects of bilingualism on cognition and emotion. He has published extensively on those issues and is the author of several books. He holds diplomates in Clinical Psychology and Psychological Specialties. He is on the editorial boards of several professional journals and is on the Advisory Board of Project ReConnect (a program for youth 18-21 drop-outs.) He specializes on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents.
He brings a strong clinical treatment perspective to the project with special expertise in culturally-specific smoking cessation programs for Hispanic smokers.
Select Published Works:
Javier, R. A. (1992). Design and implementation as a function of models: Critical assessment of models. In Health behavior research in minority populations: Access, design, and implementation. Bethesda/Baltimore, MD: National Health Lung and Blood Institute/ Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Javier, R. A., Herron, W. G. Bergman, A., & Brondolo, E. (Eds.) (1996). Special issues on health care delivery in a diverse society. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 5(1), 1-98.
Nevid, J., Javier, R. A., & Moulton III, J. L. (1996). Factors predicting participant attrition in a community-based culturally-specific smoking cessation program for Hispanic smokers. Health Psychology, 5(3), 226-229.
Nevid, J. S., & Javier, R. A. (1997). Preliminary investigation of culturally specific smoking cessation intervention for Hispanic smokers. American Journal of Health Promotion, 11(3), 198-207.
Javier, R. A., Vazquez, C. I., & Marcos, L. R. (1998). Communicating with linguistically diverse patients: Common errors by interpreters. In R. A. Javier & W. G. Herron (Eds.), Personality development and psychotherapy in our diverse society: A source book. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Javier, R. A., & Camacho-Gingerich, A. (2004, Fall). Risk and resilience in Latino youth. In C. S. Clausss-Ehlers & M. D. Weist (Eds.), Community planning to foster resilience in children (pp. 65-81). New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
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 |
