Faculty Associate

 

Sonia Y. Ruiz, Ph.D.
Psychology

syruiz@csusm.edu


 

Dr. Ruiz received her doctoral degree from Arizona State University in clinical psychology and completed her pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda.  She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at California State University San Marcos and served as a principal investigator for the MANA Hermanitas evaluation and the COACH program.

 

Her current research agenda includes the study of maternal depression and eating and weight disorders.  She is a Post-Doc Clinical Psychology Fellow with the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program and is working with the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.

 

Her interests include ethnic minority mental health; cross-cultural psychology; family socialization; role theory and women studies.