Adam Mahoney
Adam Mahoney

Dr Adam Mahoney

Associate Professor

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  A.Mahoney@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Adam Mahoney is a Consultant Chartered Forensic Psychologist who has approximately 24 years experience working in various prison establishments. This includes 10 years working as a Psychology Manager within the Scottish women's prison estate. His research and practice based interests include gender responsive approaches to female offending and interpersonal trauma. This includes authoring the Compassionate Recovery and Neurological Empowerment (CRANE) programme.

Dr Mahoney has a well-established psychotherapeutic practice which predominantly focuses on helping survivors of interpersonal trauma as well as alleviating other emotional difficulties in addition to reducing the risk of violent and other offending behaviours. Since 2008 he has worked on integrating mindfulness and compassion-focused approaches into his therapeutic work and has design a number of different interventions to help survivors recover from their abusive experiences.

Dr Mahoney is an Associate Professor in forensic and applied psychology at Edinburgh Napier University and provides consultancy based services to various organisations. This includes on going professional supervision and supervision to Forensic Psychologists in Training.

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Understanding experiences of suicidality within women’s prisons in England: a systematic review of the qualitative literature

Journal Article
Struthers, L., & Mahoney, A. (2023)
Understanding experiences of suicidality within women’s prisons in England: a systematic review of the qualitative literature. Journal of Forensic Practice, 25(4), 338-355. https://doi.org/10.1108/jfp-03-2023-0008
Purpose Suicide and suicide-related incidents have increased within women’s prisons in the UK. This paper aims to synthesise the findings of qualitative literature, to gain a ...

Exploring the Relationship Between Compassion and Attachment in Individuals with Mental Health Difficulties: A Systematic Review

Journal Article
Amari, N., Martin, T., Mahoney, A., Peacock, S., Stewart, J., & Alford, E. A. (in press)
Exploring the Relationship Between Compassion and Attachment in Individuals with Mental Health Difficulties: A Systematic Review. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-022-09573-4
The objective of the review was to explore the relevance of the relationship of compassion and attachment to mental health. APAPsycInfo, APAPsycArticles, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Soci...

Compassionate Recovery and Neurological Empowerment (CRANE): A trauma focused pilot intervention for women in prison with complex needs who engage in self-harm

Journal Article
Mahoney, A., Sutcliffe, G., & Connolly, B. (2022)
Compassionate Recovery and Neurological Empowerment (CRANE): A trauma focused pilot intervention for women in prison with complex needs who engage in self-harm. Abuse: An International Impact Journal, 3(2), 46-60. https://doi.org/10.37576/abuse.2022.037
The high prevalence of interpersonal trauma for women in custody is well known. The mental health sequelae of such experiences can include lifelong patterns of harmful behavio...

Compassion and complex interpersonal trauma in adolescence: An early systematic review

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Amari, N., & Mahoney, A. (2022)
Compassion and complex interpersonal trauma in adolescence: An early systematic review. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 29(3), 799-814. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2689
Background Whilst childhood trauma has been identified as a transdiagnostic risk factor for poly-psychopathology, compassion-focused interventions have emerged as transdiagnos...

Development of a scale measuring online sexual harassment: Examining gender differences and the emotional impact of sexual harassment victimization online

Journal Article
Buchanan, N., & Mahoney, A. (2022)
Development of a scale measuring online sexual harassment: Examining gender differences and the emotional impact of sexual harassment victimization online. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 27(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12197
Purpose This study aimed to outline the construct of online sexual harassment (OSH) to ensure its accurate measurement and to develop a tool to measure OSH victimization in ad...

Working Relationally with Adolescents Who Have Experienced Complex Interpersonal Trauma: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Journal Article
Amari, N., & Mahoney, A. (2022)
Working Relationally with Adolescents Who Have Experienced Complex Interpersonal Trauma: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 15, 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-021-00349-x
The study explores practitioners’ experiences of working with adolescents with complex interpersonal trauma. Five mental health professionals were recruited via purposive and ...

How important are phase 1 interventions for complex interpersonal trauma? A pilot randomised control trial of a group psychoeducational intervention

Journal Article
Mahoney, A., Karatzias, T., Dougal, N., & Halliday, K. (2020)
How important are phase 1 interventions for complex interpersonal trauma? A pilot randomised control trial of a group psychoeducational intervention. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 27(4), 597-610. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2447
Although psychoeducational interventions are recommended as phase 1 interventions for complex trauma there is limited evidence on their efficacy. This pilot randomised control...

Childhood adversity and psychosis in detained inpatients from medium to high secured units: Results from the Scottish census survey

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Pitcairn, J., Thomson, L., Mahoney, A., & Hyland, P. (2019)
Childhood adversity and psychosis in detained inpatients from medium to high secured units: Results from the Scottish census survey. Child Abuse and Neglect, 96, Article 104094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104094
Background There is limited data available regarding the most common forms of psychiatric illness, the occurrence of childhood adversity, and the link between childhood advers...

The efficacy of a psychoeducational intervention for the stabilisation of complex interpersonal trauma symptomatology in female offenders

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Mahoney, A. The efficacy of a psychoeducational intervention for the stabilisation of complex interpersonal trauma symptomatology in female offenders. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2086402
Interpersonal trauma is endemic in female prisons. Implementing trauma informed interventions to assist the recovery of women in custody has long been advocated for. It has be...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of group treatments for adults with symptoms associated with complex post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal Article
Mahoney, A., Karatzias, T., & Hutton, P. (2018)
A systematic review and meta-analysis of group treatments for adults with symptoms associated with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, doi:10.1016/j.jad.2018.09.059
Background: No previous meta-analyses have specifically investigated the effectiveness of psychological group therapy for symptoms associated with complex interpersonal trauma...

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