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Dr. Lilly Shanahan

Assistant Professor, Developmental PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2004 Eberhart 267 Phone:  (336) 256-0018 Email: lilly_shanahan@uncg.edu

Dr. Shanahan’s research focuses on the development of family systems and youth psychopathology during middle childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. How are siblings’ experiences within and outside of the family similar and/or different, and how are such shared and nonshared experiences associated with psychopathology? How are child-, family-, and community-level risk factors and their timing related to the developmental course of psychopathology? Finally, how do disorders develop over time and how do they co-vary longitudinally with other disorders? Dr. Shanahan draws on developmental science, developmental epidemiology, developmental psychopathology, ecological and family systems perspectives. Her interests in gender differences and longitudinal, family-based research methods permeate all of her work.

Selected publications:

Copeland, W. E., Shanahan, L., Costello, E. J., & Angold, A. (2009). Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 764-772.

Copeland, W. E., Shanahan, L., Costello, E. J., & Angold, A. (2009). Configurations of common childhood psychosocial risk factors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 451-459. 

McGuire, S., & Shanahan, L.  (in press). Sibling experiences in diverse family contexts. Child Development Perspectives.

Shanahan, L., Copeland, W. E., Costello, E. J., & Angold, A. (2008). Specificity of putative psychosocial risk factors for psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49, 34-42. 

Shanahan, L., McHale, S. M., Crouter, A. C., & Osgood, D. W. (2008). Parents’ differential treatment and youth depressive symptoms and sibling relationships: Longitudinal linkages. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 70, 480-495.

Shanahan, L., Kim, J., McHale, S. M., & Crouter, A. C. (2007). Sibling similarities and differences in time use: A pattern-analytic, within family approach. Social Development, 16, 662-681.

Shanahan, L., McHale, S. M., Osgood, D. W., & Crouter, A. C. (2007). Conflict frequency with mothers and fathers from middle childhood to late adolescence: Within- and between-families comparisons. Developmental Psychology, 43, 539-550.

Shanahan, L., McHale, S. M., Crouter, A. C., & Osgood, D. W. (2007). Warmth with mothers and fathers from middle childhood to late adolescence: Within- and between-families comparisons. Developmental Psychology, 43, 551-563.

McHale, S. M., Shanahan, L., Updegraff, K. A., Crouter, A. C., & Booth, A. (2004). Developmental and individual differences in girls’ sex-typed activities in middle childhood and adolescence. Child Development, 75, 1575-1593.