STEPHEN RUFFINS

PhD, Clinical Psychology

University of Michigan (APA Approved), 1988

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, 1988-1992

sruffins@fielding.edu

 

 

 

Internship: University of Michigan Psychological Clinic and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital (APA Approved), 1984-1988

 

Licensure: NY, MA

 

Current Professional Appointment:

 

Faculty (unranked)

School of Psychology

Fielding Graduate University

 

Areas of Instruction:

 

Psychopathology

Serious Mental Illness and Psychosis

Object Relations

Parent-Infant Mental Health

Infant Observation

Developmental Psychology

Multicultural Psychology

Social Psychology

Group Process and Organizational Development

Thematic Apperception Test

The Psychological Assessment of Object Relations and Social Cognition

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

 

Research Interests:

 

Pregnancy

Stress

Birth Outcome

Mother-Infant Behavioral Interaction and Attachment

Object Relations: Development and Psychopathology

 

Practice Interests:

 

Psychological Assessment (Serious Mental Illness, Child and Family Assessment

in Families Under Stress)

Group Process and Organizational Development in Non-Profit Organizations

The Management of Similarity, Difference, and Diversity in Organizational Life

Psychotherapy Supervision and Case Consultation

 

Professional Memberships:

 

American Psychological Association (39)

Lacanian Clinical Forum

Rapaport-Klein Study Group

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association

 

 

Honors and Awards:

 

1981-1982: Fellow, Columbia University, The Charles E. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of the City of New York

 

1983-1987: University of Michigan Merit Fellowship

 

1987-1988: University of Michigan Research Fellowship Award

 

 

Professional Activities in Last Seven Years

 

Publications:

 

Hager-Budney, M., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Ruffins, S. (in press). Maternal choice to breast-feed, object relations, and postpartum depression. Infant Behavior and Development.

 

 

Presentations:

 

Ruffins, S. (2001). Mother-infant attachment: Ethological mechanism, psychological disposition or cultural artifact. Invited paper presented at the first meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in China, Beijing, China.

 

Ruffins, S. (2004, April). The unspoken: The issues of race, gender, class, culture and organizational role in the trauma of survivors of September 11. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Group Psychotherapy Association.

 

Ruffins, S. (2005, April). Fight club: Group identity and journeys to the self. Paper presented at the Lesley University/Boston Institute of Psychotherapy Film Series.

 

 

Funded Grants/Contracts:

 

2002-present: Co-Principal Investigator, Parenting in Times of Stress, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

 

Other Professional Activities:

 

1999-2002: Consulting Psychologist, Inwood House, New York, NY.

 

2001: Consulting Psychologist, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York, NY.

 

2001-2002: Consulting Psychologist, Housingworks, New York, NY.