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Dr. Shanley is accepting students for the upcoming academic year.

Dr. Shanley’s research and clinical interests focus on parent-child interactions, parenting programs, evidence-based programs/practices, and dissemination and implementation of evidence-based program into community settings. Specifically, she has extensive experience with evidence-based parenting programs that address child behavior disorders, parenting issues, child maltreatment, and childhood obesity. Dr. Shanley’s research interests encompass parenting of young children and improving implementation strategies to reduce barriers to access and engagement in evidence-based parent support programs, with the long-range goal to better reach families and promote healthy child development through broad implementation and sustainability of these programs.

Dr. Shanley has extensive knowledge of and experience with national and international implementations of behavioral parent support programs, including the evidence-based programs Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and SafeCare®. Specifically, her experiences include training, consulting, and offering technical assistance with graduate students and community-based providers, and collaborating with agency administration and government personnel to plan, initiate and sustain these programs. She also has significant experience in developing, revising and adapting parenting curricula both for domestic and international implementations. Dr. Shanley’s recent research efforts include serving as the co-Principal Investigator of an NIH R21 grant (1R21HD094227-01A1) to assess the parenting culture and service system in Kenya to inform the adaptation and initial implementation of SafeCare for its first implementation in Africa.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship (APA accredited), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 2008-2010
• PhD, Clinical Psychology, Central Michigan University, 2008
• Predoctoral Internship (APA accredited), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 2007-2008
• MA, Clinical Psychology, Central Michigan University, 2006
• BS, University of Washington, 2000, Psychology

Professional Membership

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Division 37: Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice
• Division 37, Section 1: Section on Child Maltreatment
• Global Implementation Society (GIS)
• International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
• Society for Prevention Research (SPR)
• Western Psychological Association (WPA)

Selected Recent Publications (*denotes student author)

Shanley, J.R., Mutiso, V., Musyimi, C., Armistead, L.P., Olumbe, R., Ishiekwene, M.N., & Ndetei, D. (2024). Kenyans’ perspectives on parenting roles and strategies used to raise young children in Kenya. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(7), 1007–1016.

Mutiso, V., Ndetei, D., Musyimi, C., Shanley, J., Swahn, M., & Bhui, K. (2024). Towards agreement amongst parents, teachers and children on perceived psychopathology in children in a Kenyan socio-cultural context: A cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 259.

Shanley, J.R., Musyimi, C., Armistead, L., Mutiso, V., Hunsinger, M., & Ndetei, D. (2022). Supporting parents to care for their young children: Feasibility evaluation of a newly adapted parenting program for delivery in Kenya. International Journal of Child Health and Human Development, 15(1).

Robbertz, A.S., Kim, S-J., Musyimi, C., Tuikong, S., Shanley, J., Mutiso, V., Hucks, O., Ndetei, D., & Armistead, L. (2022). Qualitative analysis of health literacy: Exploring a Kenyan community’s response to childhood illness. Health Promotion International, daac027. Advance online publication. heapro/daac027

Swahn, M.H., Culbreth, R., Adams, S., Kasirye, R., & Shanley. J. (2022). Demographic and psychosocial risk factors for adolescent pregnancies among sexually active girls in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. African Health Sciences, 22, 152-159.

Ndetei, D.M., Mutiso, V.N., Musyimi, C.W., Gitonga, I., Tele, A., Birech, L., Mckenzie, K., Shanley, J.R., & Bhui, K.S. (2022). The feasibility of using life skills training in primary schools to improve academic performance. British Medical Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 131. doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03781-x.

Shanley, J.R., Armistead, L., Musyimi, C., Nyamai, D., Ishiekwene, M., Mutiso, V., & Ndetei, D. (2021).  Engaging community voices to assess Kenya’s needs and infrastructure to support a child maltreatment prevention program.  Child Abuse & neglect, 111. 

Selected Recent Presentations (*denotes student author)

Shanley, J.R. (November 2025). Promoting Localisation: Community-Based Approaches in Strengthening Child Resilience in the Face of Climate Crisis [Keynote address]. The 3rd International Conference on Child Protection in Africa, 2025. Nairobi, Kenya.

Armistead, L., Shanley, J., Jones, M., Musyimi, C., Mutiso, V., & Ndetei, D. (June 2025). Adapting SafeCare for Kenyans: Partnering to Reduce Child Maltreatment. Paper presented in Panel entitled, Adaptation and implementation of the SafeCare parenting model with diverse populations and settings. International Congress on Evidence-based Parenting Support. Online Conference.

*McCullough, A. & Shanley, J. (April 2025). Examining Mental Health Care Needs and Accessibility for Rural and Urban Gender and Sexual Minority Youth Populations: A Review of Existing Literature. Oregon Psychological Association 2025 Annual Conference. Oregon City, OR. 

*Blair, A., *Bakir, H., *Tingman, R., & Shanley, J. (April 2025). Interactive Mapping: Preliminary Visual Presentation of Organizations and Programs Involved in Oregon's Rural Child Mental Health. Oregon Psychological Association 2025 Annual Conference. Oregon City, OR. 

Shanley, J.R. (August 2024). Scaling up SafeCare Kenya: Adapting and implementing a parenting program in a new country [Paper presentation]. Presented in symposium entitled, “Implementation and adaptation of parenting programs to prevent maltreatment in a global context”. International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect Congress 2024. Uppsala, Sweden. 

*McCullough, A., *Guitierrez, A., *Barry, L., & Shanley, J.R. (August 2024). The implementation and evaluation of Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: A systematic review [Poster presentation]. 132nd Annual American Psychological Association Convention. Seattle, WA.