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Contact

arivers1@twu.edu
940-898-2322
CFO 803

Biography

Dr. (Alannah) Shelby Rivers earned her Bachelor鈥檚 degree at Wesleyan College, a small women鈥檚 college in Georgia, before going on to complete her Master鈥檚 and PhD at Baylor University. At Baylor, she worked with Dr. Keith Sanford on projects examining the interplay between interpersonal relationships and mental and physical health. Her dissertation focused on how relationships with close others (e.g., partners) and medical professionals led to changes in treatment attitudes and adherence over time for individuals with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes. From there, she became a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Family Intervention Science at Drexel University, where she collaborated with city agencies, school screening programs, and hospitals and other treatment centers to examine the impact of social and familial context on well-being outcomes for high-risk adolescents and adults. She joined the Texas Woman鈥檚 University faculty in 2022 where she leads the SHIRE (Studying Health and Interpersonal Relationship Experiences) lab and teaches courses on health psychology and related topics.

Education

Ph.D., Baylor University
M.A., Baylor University
B.A., Wesleyan College

Research Interests

Close Relationships; Physical and Mental Health; Psychological Assessments and Psychometrics; Healthcare Access and Barriers to Care; Health Disparities; Treatment Attitudes, Decision-Making, and Adherence; Patient-Practitioner Relationships; Attachment

Latest Articles

Journal of Health Psychology (2024)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Juliet Adams, Rachel Morrison, Audrey Randall, Autumn Sanders

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (2024)
Guy Diamond, Alannah S Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Jody Russon, Michael Roeske

The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families (2024)
Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Michael Roeske, Guy Diamond

Residential Treatment for Children & Youth (2024)
Linda Ruan-Iu, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Guy Diamond, Doug Chod

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (2024)
Guy Diamond, Linda Ruan-Iu, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Alannah S Rivers, Guy Weissinger

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2024)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Guy Weissinger, Nicole K Watkins, Linda Ruan-Iu

Psychology in the Schools (2023)
Linda Ruan-Iu, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Alannah Rivers, Tita Atte, Allen Tien

School Mental Health (2023)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Tita Atte, Perri Rosen, Matt Wintersteen

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing (2023)
Guy M Weissinger, Lili Evans, Catherine Van Fossen, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Linda Ruan-Iu

Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior (2023)
Jody Russon, Caroline Abbott, Bora Jin, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom

Psychological Assessment (2023)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford, Morgan Brewington, Ashley Buchanan

Residential Treatment for Children & Youth (2023)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Linda Ruan-Iu, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Guy Diamond

Journal of Positive Psychology, The (2022)
Amber Cazzell, Jo-Ann Tsang, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Juliette L Ratchford, Sarah Schnitker

Journal of Family Psychology (2022)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Guy Bosmans, Ingrid Piovanetti Rivera, Linda Ruan-Iu, Guy Diamond

Psychology & Health (2022)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

School Psychology (2022)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Linda Ruan-Iu, Tita Atte, Allen Tien

Children and Youth Services Review (2022)
Guy Weissinger, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Tita Atte, Guy S Diamond

Journal of Family Psychology (2022)
Amber Cazzell, Alannah S Rivers, Keith Sanford, Sarah Schnitker

Archives of Suicide Research (2022)
Linda Ruan-Iu, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Ran Barzilay, Tyler Moore, Allen Tien

Personal Relationships (2021)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2021)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Mona Clifton, Alexandra E Pizzuto, Ashley Buchanan, Keith Sanford

Patient Education and Counseling (2021)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2021)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Jody Russon, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Linda Ruan-Iu, Guy Diamond

Psychological Assessment (2020)
Keith Sanford, Alannah Shelby Rivers

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2020)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Patient Education and Counseling (2020)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Journal of Health Psychology (2020)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford, Gary Elkins, Janet S Carpenter, Kevin L Rand

Journal of Family Psychology (2018)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Psychological Assessment (2018)
Keith Sanford, Alannah Shelby Rivers, Tara L Braun, Kelly P Schultz, Edward P Buchanan

Journal of Family Psychology (2017)
Keith Sanford, Alannah Shelby Rivers

Chapters

Family Environment Scale
in Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy | Springer (2018)
Alannah Shelby Rivers, Keith Sanford

Current Projects

Relationship Self-Efficacy: With undergraduate and graduate researchers at the SHIRE lab. Key goals: examining and developing an assessment of relationship self-efficacy in multiple types of relationships (e.g., friendships) for use in future projects, including a developing collaboration about cultural differences in forgiveness motives.

Barriers to Healthcare Access: With undergraduate researchers at the SHIRE lab. Key goals: understanding key resources (individual, interpersonal, community) used to navigate barriers to healthcare access (affordability, accessi

Newport Healthcare Projects: With Newport Healthcare and other collaborators. Key goals: exploring social and other predictors of psychological symptoms of high-risk adolescents and young adults in a treatment center, including the unique experiences of LGBTQ+ adolescents, the role of parental attachment for emerging adults, and multiple domains of functioning.

Externally Funded Projects

Maternal and Paternal Attachment in a Cross-Cultural Sample
BeSample | $250.00 | 2023
Role: Principal Investigator

Maternal and Paternal Attachment in a Cross-Cultural Sample
Toloka AI | $500.00 | 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

Internally Funded Projects

Relationship Self-Efficacy in Multiple Close Relationships
GOV-草莓传媒官网下载 | $500.00 | 2024
Research Grant

Summer Research Funding
College of Arts and Sciences, 草莓传媒官网下载 | $4,730.00 | 2023
Research Grant

Professional Affiliations

• International Association of Relationship Research
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Society for the Teaching of Psychology