Academic Work & Selected Publications

At Rutgers University, I am an associate professor of clinical psychology in the Psy.D. program at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, psychology researchas well as a contributing faculty member in the Ph.D. program and a member of the graduate faculty of the psychology department. I teach couple, child, and family therapy and assessment courses, as well as courses in diversity, as my work has a strong multicultural emphasis. In fact, I conduct research on couples and racial and cultural issues. While my work can be found in psychology journals and in databases such as psychinfo and googlescholar, below are three publications characteristic of the thrust of my empirical work, and three publications characteristic of my clinically-focused work:

Empirical articles (examples):

Bhagwat, R., Kelly, S., & Lambert, M. C. (in press). Exploratory factor analysis of African Self-Consciousness Scale scores. Assessment.

Kelly, S., & Floyd, F. J. (2006a). Impact of racial perspectives and contextual variables on marital trust and adjustment for African American couples. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 79-87 (Also summarized in the Clinician’s Research Digest).

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Kelly, S. (2004). Underlying components of scores assessing African Americans’ racial perspectives. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling & Development, 37, 28-40.

Clinically-focused articles (examples):

Kelly, S. & Boyd-Franklin, N. (2009) Joining, understanding, and supporting Black couples in treatment. In M. Rastogi & V. Thomas (Eds.), Multicultural couple therapy (pp 235-254). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Boyd-Franklin, N., Kelly, S., & Durham, J. (2008). African American couples in therapy. In A. S. Gurman (Ed.), Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy (Fourth ed., pp. 681-697) NY: Guilford.

Kelly, S. (2006). Cognitive-behavioral therapy with African Americans. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hayes (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive-behavioral therapy: Assessment, practice, and supervision (pp. 97-116). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.