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Colleen Stiles-Shields PhD

Colleen Stiles-Shields
Designation
  • Assistant Professor
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Gender Pronouns
  • she/her
Contact Information
  • ecss [at] uic.edu
  • Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR)
    1747 W. Roosevelt Rd.
    Chicago IL 60612
  • Room #:250 WROB
Website

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her research is centered around harnessing digital mental health and telehealth as delivery mechanisms to reach and improve behavioral health targets for pediatric populations. Within this work, she specifically aims to design/adapt, evaluate, and disseminate technologies to better meet the needs of pediatric populations and their families, particularly those with socially complex needs (i.e., potentially overlapping experiences of adversities and minoritized identities).

Title Description Investigator(s) Category Status
Supporting Mental Health in Underserved Youth: Engagement with Digital Mental Health Technologies in Pediatric Primary Care Mental health disorders are the most common disease of childhood. Yet, millions of teens do not receive mental health care. Most at risk are teens from underserved populations (e.g., low socioeconomic status; racial/ethnic and/or gender/sexual minority), who face a myriad of barriers to mental health screening and care. The RAÍCES MATTERS Lab On-going
Technology Enabled Services for Depression in Family Medicine Technology-enabled services (TESs), which include mobile applications (apps) supported by low-intensity coaching or care-management, have shown great potential, with a large number of randomized controlled trials consistently demonstrating efficacy. The RAÍCES MATTERS Lab On-going

*System-generated list from psychiatry research website.

Date Released Title Source
09/09/2025 The MATTERS Lab Presents at Multiple Conferences
09/09/2025 Dr. Stiles-Shields awarded the ISRII "Rising Star Award"
09/09/2025 Adapting monolingual digital mental health resources for multilingual families: Lessons from the TeACH System implementation Society for Digital Mental Health
06/09/2025 Recent Presentations from the MATTERS Lab
06/09/2025 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded the APA Div. 54/Society of Pediatric Psychology's Donald K. Routh Early Career Award.
11/12/2024 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded first honorable mention for the ISBA Professional Advisory Council Annual Research Awards.
11/12/2024 The MATTERS Lab Recent Publications
07/17/2024 Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at CHOP, as well as the Annual Conferences of SRA, SPP, and ISRII
07/17/2024 Dr. C. Stiles-Shields, G. Bobadilla and D. Thorpe presented at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (April 2024) Oxford University Press
12/15/2023 Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at the Annual Conferences of APA, AACAP, and ABCT.
12/15/2023 Dr. Stiles-Shields quoted in "News You'll Use" in First for Women Magazine First for Women Magazine
07/07/2023 Drs. Alexandra Psihogios and Colleen Stiles-Shields are guest editing a Special Issue for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology Journal of Pediatric Psychology
07/07/2023 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society of Digital Mental Health. Society for Digital Mental Health
07/07/2023 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields recent publications
07/07/2023 Dr. Stiles-Shields co-authored presentations at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC) and the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers (APAHC) Annual Conference
03/28/2023 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields interviewed Nicole Crump, a caregiver of a child with a complex, chronic condition, about Navigating Social Media for the Parent and Caregiver Voices Project. Parent and Caregiver Voices Project
12/13/2022 Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions
10/26/2022 Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities. KevinMD
12/13/2012 Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was interviewed along with Dr. Christina Khou on KevinMD about their Op Ed: "Want to improve Telehealth? Ask people with Disabilities." Kevin MD