About Dr. Daley
Dr. Shannon Daley has been a licensed clinical psychologist in California since 1998 (PSY15783). She completed her B.A. in Psychology at UCLA, graduating cum laude and with Departmental Honors for her research on personality traits in adolescents with substance use disorders. She continued on at UCLA for her doctoral degree, completing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a minor in Developmental Psychology. Upon obtaining her doctorate, Dr. Daley completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, for which she received the Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research.
Dr. Daley’s academic research focused on interpersonal factors in adolescent and young adult mental health. Specifically, she examined how risk for depression is influenced by stressful life events, issues in romantic and social relationships, and different personality styles. She focused especially on the variables that place girls at greater risk for depression onset during the challenging periods of adolescence and young adulthood.
Her clinical training included assessments of children and adults with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and learning disabilities; cognitive-behavioral therapy with adults with depression and bipolar disorder at the UCLA Mood Disorders Clinic; and parent support groups and child psychotherapy at the UCLA Lab School (Seeds University Elementary School). Her predoctoral internship at the Child and Family Guidance Center (CFGC) included advanced training in psychoeducational assessments with children and adolescents, as well as individual, family, and group psychotherapy. She subsequently joined the staff at CFGC, working primarily with court-referred adolescents, and then TIES for Adoption in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA, working with young children and their prospective adoptive parents. From 2021 to 2022, she worked in the psychological assessment practice of Dr. Tina Bahador in Santa Monica.
Dr. Daley joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in 1998, where she taught undergraduate courses on abnormal and clinical psychology, graduate courses on psychological assessment, and supervised doctoral students. Since 2006 she has served as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, where she helps to train the next generation of psychologists in how to conduct clinically-sensitive and scientifically-based assessments of children, teens, and young adults.
In all aspects of her work, Dr. Daley takes an empirically-based approach to understanding and helping young people. She uses scientifically-supported measures and stays abreast of current research. Her goal is to provide an in-depth understanding of each individual, looking beneath the surface to understand what is underlying their feelings, academic performance, and behavior, and to provide practical, useful recommendations to families. She views having a positive relationship as centrally important to the assessment process, maintains a warm and encouraging approach with young people and their parents, and strives to make the testing experience comfortable and even enjoyable!
Media Interviews
KCSN (88.5), a National Public Radio affiliate, 2004
Teen People magazine, October, 2004
Shape magazine August, 2004
Glamour magazine, December, 2002
Allure magazine, September, 2002
Chicago Tribune, April, 2002
Healthscoutnews.com, April, 2002
Los Angeles Times, “Birds & Bees” column, April, 2002
KNX 1070 (radio), March, 2002
KFWB 980 (radio), March, 2002
KCOP Channel 13 (television), March, 2002
Teen People magazine, October, 1998
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Daley, S. E., Hammen, C., Burge, D., Davila, J., Paley, B., Lindberg, N., & Herzberg, D. S. (1997). Predictors of the generation of episodic stress: A longitudinal study of late adolescent women. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 251-259.
Daley, S. E., Hammen, C., Davila, J., & Burge, D. (1998). Axis II symptomatology, depression, and life stress during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 595-603.
Daley, S. E., Hammen, C., Burge, D., Davila, J., Paley, B., Lindberg, N., & Herzberg, D. S. (1999). Depression and Axis II symptomatology in an adolescent community sample: Concurrent and longitudinal associations. Journal of Personality Disorders, 13, 47-59.
Rao, U., Hammen, C., & Daley, S. E. (1999). Continuity of depression in the transition to adulthood: A five-year longitudinal study of young women. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 38, 908-915.
Daley, S. E., Burge, D., & Hammen, C. (2000). Borderline personality disorder symptoms as predictors of 4-year romantic relationship dysfunction in young women: Addressing issues of specificity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 451-460.
Daley, S. E., Hammen, C., & Rao, U. (2000). Predictors of first onset and recurrence of major depression in young women during the five years following high school graduation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 525-533.
Hammen, C., Henry, R., & Daley, S. E. (2000). Depression and sensitization to stressors among young women as a function of childhood adversity. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 782-787.
Daley, S. E. & Hammen, C. (2002). Depressive symptoms and close relationships during the transition to adulthood: Perspectives from dysphoric women, their best friends, and their romantic partners. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 129-141.
Daley, S. E., Rizzo, C. J., & Gunderson, B. H. (2006) The longitudinal relation between personality disorder symptoms and depression in adolescence: The mediating role of interpersonal stress. Journal of Personality Disorders, 20, 354-370.
Rizzo, C. J., Daley, S. E., & Gunderson, B. H. (2006). The role of interpersonal sensitivity and romantic stress predicting of depression among adolescent girls. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 444-453.