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Shannon D. Chaplo
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Shannon D. Chaplo, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Primary Children's Hospital

100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113

Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services Building

Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinic
81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Associate Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine

Education history

Undergraduate Psychology; Gender and Women¿s Studies - University of Wisconsin¿Madison B.A.
Graduate Training Clinical Psychology - University of Utah M.S.
Graduate Training Clinical Psychology - University of Utah Ph.D.
Internship Psychology, Child Trauma Track - Duke University School of Medicine Clinical Internship
Postdoctoral Training Clinical Psychology - Duke University School of Medicine, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Postdoctoral Training

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Szacilo A, Chaplo SD, Caringi J, Keeshin B, Vaughn P, Abdulahad, (2025). Screening Children for Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences in Primary Care. Pediatric clinics of North America, 54(2), 539-552.
  2. Keeshin, B., Monson, E., Abdulahad, L., Nkoy, F., Davis, N., Duffy, T., Eppich, K., Presson, A., Chaplo, SD (2025). Pediatric Traumatic Stress in Primary Care: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates. Pediatrics, 156(5),
  3. Chaplo SD, Shepard Abdulahad LD, Keeshin, B (2024). Utilizing screening as a trauma-responsive approach in pediatric healthcare settings. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care,
  4. Modrowski, CA, Chaplo, SD, & Kerig, P (2023). Youth Dually-Involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems: Varying definitions and their associations with trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress, & offending. Children and Youth Services Review, 150(106998),
  5. Modrowski CA, Chaplo SD, Kerig PK, Mozley MM (2019). Trauma exposure, posttraumatic overmodulation and undermodulation, and nonsuicidal self-injury in traumatized justice-involved adolescents. Psychol Trauma, 11(7), 743-750.
  6. Chaplo SD, Kerig PK, Wainryb C (2019). Development and Validation of the Moral Injury Scales for Youth. J Trauma Stress, 32(3), 448-458.
  7. Murray KJ, Sullivan KM, Lent MC, Chaplo SD, Tunno AM (2019). Promoting trauma-informed parenting of children in out-of-home care: An effectiveness study of the resource parent curriculum. Psychol Serv, 16(1), 162-169.
  8. Modrowski CA, Bennett DC, Chaplo SD, Kerig PK (2017). Screening for PTSD among detained adolescents: Implications of the changes in the DSM-5. Psychol Trauma, 9(1), 10-17.
  9. Kerig PK, Charak R, Chaplo SD, Bennett DC, Armour C, Modrowski CA, McGee AB (2016). Validation of the factor structure of the adolescent dissociative experiences scale in a sample of trauma-exposed detained youth. Psychol Trauma, 8(5), 592-600.
  10. Kerig PK, Bennett DC, Chaplo SD, Modrowski CA, McGee AB (2016). Numbing of Positive, Negative, and General Emotions: Associations With Trauma Exposure, Posttraumatic Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Justice-Involved Youth. J Trauma Stress, 29(2), 111-9.
  11. Bennett DC, Modrowski CA, Kerig PK, Chaplo SD (2015). Investigating the dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder in a sample of traumatized detained youth. Psychol Trauma, 7(5), 465-72.
  12. Chaplo SD, Kerig PK, Bennett DC, Modrowski CA (2015). The roles of emotion dysregulation and dissociation in the association between sexual abuse and self-injury among juvenile justice-involved youth. J Trauma Dissociation, 16(3), 272-85.

Review

  1. Modrowski CA, Chaplo SD, Kerig PK (2022). Advancing Our Understanding of the Risk Factors Associated with Crossover Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems: A Trauma-Informed Research Agenda. [Review]. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev, 25, (2), 283-299.
  2. Chaplo S, Fishbein D (2022). Capitalizing on Neuroplasticity Across Development to Redirect Pathways from Juvenile Justice Involvement. [Review]. Curr Top Behav Neurosci, 53, 235-254.