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Assistant
Professor, Clinical
PhD, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2001
Eberhart 291
Phone: (336) 256-0411
Email:
wdallan@uncg.edu |
Dr. Allan's research focuses
on child anxiety, particularly social anxiety. His
work in this area uses a developmental
psychopathology framework that addresses
individual-level correlates and familial factors. He
is currently working on a model that examines the
mediating role that child cognitive factors (e.g.,
distorted thoughts) may play in the relationship
between familial factors (e.g., parental
overprotection) and child social anxiety. He is
interested in applying the knowledge learned from
this line of research in developing and validating
ecologically relevant child anxiety treatment. This
research is being initiated in his Child Anxiety
Clinic (a sub-specialty of the
UNCG Psychology Clinic).
Selected publications:
Silvia, P. J., Allan, W. D., & Beauchamp, D. L. (2006). Biased recognition of happy facial expressions in social anxiety. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 25, 588-602.
Allan, W. D., Kimbrel, N. A., Drewel, E. H., & Bell-Dolan, D. (2003, November). Observational
analysis of parental overprotection: Relation to
questionnaire data and child social anxiety.
Poster presented at the annual meeting for the
Association of the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,
Boston.
Bell-Dolan, D., & Allan, W. D. (1998). Assessing
elementary school children's social skills:
Evaluation of the parent version of the Matson
Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters.
Psychological Assessment, 10, 140-148.
Kashani, J. H., Mehregany, D., Allan, W. D., & Kelly, K. (1999). Raising happy children: A
parent's guide. New York: Three Rivers. [U.K.
Title: (2000). How to raise a happy child.
London: Vermilion].
Kearney, C. A., & Allan, W. D. (1995). Panic
disorder with or without agoraphobia. In A. R. Eisen,
C. A. Kearney, & C. E. Schaefer (Eds.), Clinical
handbook of anxiety disorders in children and
adolescents (pp. 251-281). Northvale, NJ: Jason
Aronson. |
