College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Psychology, University of Delaware, 2012
• MS, Psychology, University of Delaware, 2008
• MPH. Public Health, Columbia University 2000
• BA, English, Cornell University, 1997

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests:

• Attachment
• Parenting
• Emotion Regulation
• Depression
• Suicide Risk
• Pre-School
• Adolescence

Bio:

Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing, PhD, MPH, is a clinical and developmental psychologist. Her research focuses on healthy emotional development in childhood and adolescence with an emphasis on the role of parent-child attachment on emotional development, particularly on the risk for youth depression and suicide. She also focuses on studying these relationships within racial and ethnic minority families and families coping with poverty and other social stressors. Finally, her program of research focuses on translating knowledge from basic scientific research into clinical intervention and prevention programs that can effect change across individual, family and broader system levels. Together with mentors and colleagues she has contributed to the development and testing of several attachment and emotions focused prevention and intervention protocols, including The Emotions Course for Children, Family Care Curriculum, and Attachment Based Family Therapy.

Graduate students working with her may choose to participate in:

1. Basic research that strengthens the scientific understanding of emotional development in children and emotional processes in families, including associated psychobiological and neurological processes.
2. Translational research focused on program development, evaluation and implementation.

Selected Publications:

Chou, J. L., Muruthi, B. A., Krauthamer‐Ewing, E. S., Lynch, L., Feeney, E., Avula, D. S., ... & McRell, A. S. (2026). Couple/Marriage and Family Therapists Extent of Training Experiences for Racism‐Related Stress and Racial Trauma. Journal of marital and family therapy, 52(1), e70090.

Muruthi, B. A., Krauthamer-Ewing, E. S., Chou, J. L., Slaughter-Acey, J., Bennett, D. S., & McRell, A. S. (2025). The impact of Maternal Mentalizing on Racial Trauma and Substance Use Risk for Black Mothers in the United States. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 1-7.

Zisk, A., Abbott, C. H., Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., K., Fitter, M. H., Diamond, G. S., & Kobak, R. (2023). Immersive and reflective recall of a suicidal episode: Implications for assessing and treating suicidal adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Herres, J. Krauthamer Ewing, E.S., Levy, S, Creed, T., Diamond, G.S. (2023). Combining attachment-based family therapy and cognitive behavior therapy to improve outcomes for adolescents with anxiety. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14(2).

*Hunt, Q. A., Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., Weiler, L. M., Ogbaselase, F. A., Mendenhall, T., McGuire, J. K., ... & Diamond, G. S. (2022). Family relationships and the interpersonal theory of suicide in a clinically suicidal sample of adolescents. Journal of marital and family therapy.

Diamond, G., Kodish, T., Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., Hunt, Q. A., & Russon, J. M. (2022). Family processes: Risk, protective and treatment factors for youth at risk for suicide. Aggression and Violent Behavior.

*Krauthamer Ewing, E.S., Hunt,Q., Singer, J.S., Diamond, G.S., Winley, D.M (2020). Youth Suicide Risk. In Wampler, K.S. (Ed.) Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.

Holtrop, K., Krauthamer Ewing, E.S., Topham, G. (2020). Prevention of Parent-Child Relational Problems: The Role of Parenting Interventions. In Wampler, K.S. (Ed.) Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.

*Krauthamer Ewing, E.S., Herres, J., Dilks, K., Rahim, F., Trentacosta, C. (2019). Understanding of Emotions and Empathy: Predictors of Positive Parenting with Preschoolers in Economically Stressed Families. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Diamond, G. S., Kobak, R. R., Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., Levy, S. A., Herres, J. L., Russon, J. M., & Gallop, R. J. (2018). A Randomized-Controlled Trial: Attachment-Based Family and Nondirective Supportive Treatments for Suicidal Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Sheller, S. L., Hudson, K. M., Bloch, J. R., Biddle, B., Krauthamer Ewing, E. S., & Slaughter-Acey, J.C. (2018). Family Care Curriculum: A Parenting Support Program for Families Experiencing Homelessness. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 22(9), 1247-1254.

Krauthamer Ewing, E.S., Levy, S.A., Scott, S.A., Diamond, G.S. (2017). Attachment Based Family Therapy for adolescents with depression and suicidal ideation. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions. New York: Guilford Press.

Finlon, K.J., Izard C.E., Seidenfeld, A., Johnson S.R., Cavadel E.W., Krauthamer Ewing E. S. Morgan J.K. (November 2015). Emotion-based preventive intervention: Effectively promoting emotion knowledge and adaptive behavior among at-risk preschoolers. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 1353-1365.

Krauthamer Ewing, E.S, Diamond, G.S, Levy, S. (2015). Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents: Theory, Clinical Model, and Empirical Support. Attachment and Human Development, 17, 136-156.

Kobak, R., Zajac, K., Herres, J., Krauthamer Ewing, E.S. (2015). Attachment based treatments for adolescents: The secure cycle as a framework for assessment, treatment and evaluation. Attachment and Human Development, 17, 220-239.