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Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Purdue University)
Research Interests
Families and health, healthcare, family interventions in health, patient-centered care, couples and cancer.
Contact Information
Fowler House, Room 101
Purdue University
1200 W. State Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2055
Phone: (765) 496-8372
Fax: (765) 494-0503
E-mail: cgshield@purdue.edu
Web site: http://www.clevelandshields.com/
Biography
Recent Publications
Education
Courses Recently Taught
Honors
External Grants
Professional Service
Biography
Coping with Medical Illnesses:
This research examines how couple and family functioning affect outcomes of patients diagnosed with chronic illnesses. Most of Dr. Shields’ recent research has been with breast cancer patients and their partners. He and his colleagues have found that partner avoidance and emotional processing is associated with posttraumatic growth in couples’ relationships.
Healthcare-provider communication:
Dr. Shields has been involved in studies examining physician-patient communication. These studies have found that eliciting and validating the patients concerns is associated with greater patient satisfaction, trust, and lower diagnostic and testing costs. The study also found that the use of emotion words by physicians is viewed positively by patients. One of his studies demonstrated that the presence of family members at a medical encounter does not disrupt the physician-patient relationship. Studies of cancer patients have found that more highly educated patients prefer a more active role in treatment decision making, but that their preferences are not stable over time. Currently, Dr. Shields has an NCI grant to examine physician-patient communication with cancer patients.
He is on the Editorial Boards of Family Process and JMFT and regularly reviews for Patient Education and Counseling, Psycho-Oncology, Annals of Family Medicine and other medically oriented journals.
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Recent Publications
Epstein, R.M., Hadee, T., Carroll, J., Meldrum, S.C., Lardner, J., & Shields, C.G. (2007). “Could this be something serious?” Reassurance, uncertainty and empathy in response to patients’ expressions of worry. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22, 1731-1739.
Griggs, J.J., Sorbero, M.E.S., Mallinger, J.B., Quinn, M., Waterman, M., Brooks, B., & Shields, C.G. (2007). Vitality, mental health, and satisfaction with information after breast cancer. Patient Education and Counseling, 66, 58-66.
Epstein, R.M., Shields, C.G., Franks, P., Meldrum, S.C., Feldman, M., & Kravitz, R.L. (2007). Exploring and validating patient concerns: Relation to prescribing for depression. Annals of Family Medicine, 5, 21-28.
Duberstein, P., Meldrum, S., Fiscella, K., Shields, C.G., & Epstein, R.M. (2007). Influences on patients' ratings of physicians: Physicians' demographics and personality. Patient Education and Counseling, 65, 270-274.
Burwell, S.R., Brucker, P., & Shields, C.G. (2006). Attachment behaviors and proximity-seeking in cancer patients and their partners. Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, 5, 1-16.
Mallinger, J.B., Shields, C.G., Griggs, J.J., Roscoe, J.A., Morrow, G.R., & Rosenbluth, R.J. (2006). Stability of decisional role preference over the course of cancer therapy. Psycho-Oncology, 15, 297-305.
Mallinger, J.B., Griggs, J.J., & Shields, C.G. (2006). Family communication and mental health after breast cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care, 15, 355-361.
Franks, P., Jerant, A.F., Fiscella, K., Shields, C.G., Tancredi, D.J., & Epstein, R.M. (2006). Studying physician effects on patient outcomes: Physician interactional style and performance on quality of care indicators. Social Science & Medicine, 62, 422-432.
Epstein, R.M., Shields, C.G., Meldrum, S.C., Fiscella, K., Carroll, J., & Carney, P.A. (2006). Physicians' responses to patients' medically unexplained symptoms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 269-276.
Bayer, W., Mallinger, J.B., Krishnan, A., Shields, C.G. (2006). Attitudes toward life-sustaining interventions among ambulatory black and white patients. Ethnicity and Disease, 16, 915-920.
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Education
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Courses Recently Taught
CDFS 688: Internship in Marriage and Family Therapy
CDFS 678: Externship in Marriage and Family Therapy
CDFS 685E: Interventions in Families and Health
CDFS 685F: Families and Health
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Honors
2005, 2006 Susan H. McDaniel Graduate Teaching Award, Awarded by Graduate Students in the Marriage & Family Therapy Masters Degree Program Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester.
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External Grants
2007-2009, Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute, "Responses of Physicians to Patients’ Inquiries." $330,434.
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Professional Service
American Psycho-Oncology Society, Member of the Disparities Special Interest Group (SIG).
New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy:
1992-1993 Member-at-Large, Board of Directors
1993-2003 Member, Legislative Task Force
1994-1995 President-Elect, Board of Directors
1996-1997 President, Board of Directors
1997-1998 Past President, Board of Directors
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