About Stephanie
Stephanie Callan received her BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her MS in psychology from Drexel University. She joined the Healthy Couples Lab with a diverse background including research in alcohol misuse and smoking cessation and matters related to professional psychology, such as training and self-care. She brought that experience to the study of health behaviors within romantic couples, particularly those facing serious health issues such as heart failure and bone-marrow transplant. She defended her thesis in 2020, which focused on the development and psychometric validation of a measure assessing the degree to which partners are invested in one another’s health and physical activity. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines health behavior concordance within military couples and the relationship between partners’ sleep and deployment. In her downtime, Stephanie enjoys watching her Philadelphia sports teams and loving on her chihuahua mix.
Stephanie graduated from the Clinical Health Psychology PhD program in 2023. While at CU Denver, both her thesis and dissertation aimed to elucidate the relationship between partner influence and health, as well as specific health behaviors (e.g., sleep, physical activity, diet). Her dissertation was entitled, “Understanding health behaviors in soldiers and their civilian spouses”. She completed her doctoral internship at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, CT in the Health Psychology Track. She is currently completing a clinical post-doctoral fellowship in home-based and integrated primary care at the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. Her clinical and research interests focus broadly on specific health behaviors across the health continuum (i.e., healthy couples to couples facing end-of-life). Her more specific clinical interests include health behavior change, chronic pain, integrated primary care, the military population, and any opportunities she is able to get working with couples and caregivers! She can be reached at Stephanie.Callan@va.gov.
Selected Presentations:
Callan, S., Ulrich, G., Roberts, S., Ranby, K. (2020, February). Partner Investment in Physical Activity: Scale Development within Multiple Populations. Data Blitz presented at the health preconference of the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans, LA.
Callan, S., Geller, J., Kilbourn, K. (2019, March). Associations among relationship satisfaction, dyadic coping, and social support in couples facing autologous HSCT. In K. Ranby (Chair), Determining who to target for couples-based health interventions: An examination of patient and non-patient samples. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society and Behavioral Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Callan, S., Ranby, K. W., Sannes, T., McIlvennan, C., Thompson, J., Allen, L., & Matlock, D. (2019, February). Patient and caregiver value concordance when considering left ventricular assist device therapy. Poster presented to the health preconference of the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Portland, OR.
Selected Publications:
Callan, S., Ulrich, G.R., Wooldridge, J.S., Roberts, S.V., Ranby, K.W. (under review). The development and psychometric examination of the partner investment in health scale. Manuscript submitted to Psychology & Health.
Sannes, T.S., Ranby, K.W., Yusufov, M., Brewer, B., Jacobs, J., Callan, S., Ulrich, G., Pensak, N., Natvig, C., Laudenslager, M.L. (under revision). More often than not, we’re in sync: The interdependence of patient and caregiver well-being over time in stem cell transplant. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.
Callan, S., Ranby, K.W., Thamotharan, S. (2021). Social justice considerations of a remote psychology admissions process: COVID-19 era and beyond. Psychotherapy Bulletin, 56(2), 6-10.
Callan, S., Schwartz, J., Arputhan, A. (2020). Training future psychologists to be competent in self-care: A systematic review. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 15(2), 117–125.