Email

acuellar@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Psychiatry & Behav Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Addresses

Veterans Affairs Medical Centr (Office)

Room: VAMC-6C-245
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

Advanced Training from Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

01/2007 - Houston, TX United States

Advanced Training from James A. Haley Veterans Hospital

01/2005 - Tampa, FL United States

Ph.D. from University Of Miami

01/2005 - Coral Gables, FL United States

Advanced Training from University Of Miami

01/2004 - Coral Gables, FL United States

Professional Interests

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation
• Serious Mental Illness
• Bipolar Disorder

Professional Statement

Dr. Amy Cuellar is a clinical psychologist in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. The PRRC is a psychiatric rehabilitation program that helps Veterans with serious mental illness achieve meaningful community roles, increase their functioning in personally-meaningful domains, and purse valued goals. She also is involved in the clinical training of psychology trainees and psychiatry residents.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Ruggero CJ, Johnson SL, Cuellar AK "Spanish-language measures of mania and depression.." Psychol Assess. 2004 Dec;16(4):381-5. Pubmed PMID: 15584797
• Johnson SL, Cuellar AK, Cueller AK, Ruggero C, Winett-Perlman C, Goodnick P, White R, Miller I "Life events as predictors of mania and depression in bipolar I disorder.." J Abnorm Psychol. 2008 May;117(2):268-77. Pubmed PMID: 18489203
• Cuellar AK, Johnson SL, Winters R "Distinctions between bipolar and unipolar depression.." Clin Psychol Rev. 2005 May;25(3):307-39. Pubmed PMID: 15792852
• Cuellar AK, Johnson SL, Ruggero CJ "Affective reactivity in response to criticism in remitted bipolar disorder: a laboratory analog of Expressed Emotion.." J Clin Psychol. 2009 Sep;65(9):925-41. Pubmed PMID: 19459195

Memberships

American Psychosocial Association

Association of VA Psychologist Leaders