Adapting monolingual digital mental health resources for multilingual families: Lessons from the TeACH System implementation

Posted on September 09, 2025

Flash talk presented at the 2025 Society for Digital Mental Health Virtual Annual Conference Abstracts: Advancing Digital Mental Health in a Rapidly Changing World, Virtual.

The MATTERS Lab Presents at Multiple Conferences

Posted on September 09, 2025

The MATTERS Lab presented at the Annual Conferences for the Society for Digital Mental Health, International Society for Research on Internet Interventions, and the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Stiles-Shields awarded the ISRII "Rising Star Award"

Posted on September 09, 2025

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded the "Rising Star Award" by the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII). The award was presented to her at the ISRII Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, in early August 2025.

Recent Presentations from the MATTERS Lab

Posted on June 09, 2025

Members of the MATTERS Lab have presented at multiple conferences recently.

Elyse Shenberger, a postdoctoral fellow in the MATTERS Lab, won a Student Poster Award

Posted on June 09, 2025

Elyse Shenberger, a postdoctoral fellow in the MATTERS Lab, won a Student Poster Award at the Society for Pediatric Psychology's Annual Conference, for her poster titled, "Neighborhood Needs: Understanding Differing Gaps in Mental Health Delivery in Pediatric Primary, Specialty Care Based on Community Distress"

Dr. Elyse Shenberger, a postdoctoral fellow, chaired her first paper symposium at Society for Research in Child Development's biennial conference

Posted on June 09, 2025

Dr. Elyse Shenberger, a postdoctoral fellow, chaired her first paper symposium at Society for Research in Child Development's biennial conference in Minneapolis, along with an impressive team of Illinois researchers across institutions who shared their impressive work on understanding and preventing exclusionary discipline in Illinois early education.

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded first honorable mention for the ISBA Professional Advisory Council Annual Research Awards.

Posted on November 12, 2024

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was awarded first honorable mention for the ISBA Professional Advisory Council Annual Research Awards for the paper:

The MATTERS Lab Recent Publications

Posted on November 12, 2024

Stiles-Shields, C., Lattie, E., Kruzan, K., Lakhtakia, T., & Smith, S. (2024). Coaching Protocol. Prism. Galter Health Sciences Library. Northwestern University. https://doi.org/10.18131/pnan3-dqh44 

Dr. C. Stiles-Shields, G. Bobadilla and D. Thorpe presented at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (April 2024)

Posted on July 17, 2024

Addressing mental health disparities in urban primary care settings.

The MATTERS Lab's Gabriella Bobadilla awarded multiple awards by the Society of Pediatric Psychology!

Posted on July 17, 2024

Gabriella Bobadilla was awarded both the Society of Pediatric Psychology's (SPP) Digital Health SIG Student Poster Award AND one of the SPP Annual Conference Student Poster Awards!

Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at CHOP, as well as the Annual Conferences of SRA, SPP, and ISRII

Posted on July 17, 2024

Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), as well as the Annual Conferences of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP), and International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII)

Dr. Stiles-Shields presented at the Annual Conferences of APA, AACAP, and ABCT.

Posted on December 15, 2023

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields and colleagues presented at the Annual Conferences of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).

Dr. Stiles-Shields quoted in "News You'll Use" in First for Women Magazine

Posted on December 15, 2023

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields was quoted in "News You'll Use" in First for Women Magazine:  "Tele-Therapy is more sustainable:

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society of Digital Mental Health.

Posted on July 07, 2023

Presentation titles: "We built it, but they did not come: Community collaboration to adapt a digital screening and referral system for sustainable reach and uptake" and "How can academic-industry partnerships thrive? Insights from a smartphone mental health app randomized control trial"

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

Posted on July 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.

Drs. Alexandra Psihogios and Colleen Stiles-Shields are guest editing a Special Issue for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Posted on July 07, 2023

Drs. Alexandra Psihogios and Colleen Stiles-Shields are guest editing a Special Issue for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: Improving Digital Health Implementation in Pediatric Populations: From Design to Sustainment Improving Digital Health Implementation in Pediatric Populations: From Design to Sustainment

Dr. Colleen Stiles-Shields recent publications

Posted on July 07, 2023

Kruzan, K., Ng, A., Stiles-Shields, C., Lattie, E. G., Mohr, D. C., & Reddy, M. (2023). The perceived utility of sensor data in digital self-tracking technologies for mental health. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 88, 1-16. doi: 10.1145/3544548.358120

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.

Posted on March 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.   Podcast:

Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities.

Posted on October 26, 2022

The tech industry needs to invest in developing platforms and devices with active, consistent, and frequent input from the disability community. This input must reflect a range of individuals with disabilities.