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Dr Jonathan Egan BA,MA,MPsychSc,PsyD,RegClinPsychol Ps.SI
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Biography:
| Dr. Jonathan Egan, Lecturer above the bar in clinical psychology completed both his BA in Pure psychology (1992) and MA in Applied Psychology (1993) in UCD. He then went to Illinois and trained in behaviour analysis and therapy and completed his internships in Traumatic Brain Injury services with both adolescents and adults. He returned to UCD and completed the M. Psych. Sc, (Clin. Spec.) in 1997. Following his clinical psychology training he began working with Child and Family psychology services in Laois and subsequently became the senior clinical psychologist with the Adult Mental Health services in 1999. A few years later, he also worked as a Senior Child and family Clinical Psychologist in Athlone (2004). In 2000, Jonathan became the founding Director of Counselling for the Arches Adult Counselling Service; for survivors of childhood abuse and neglect. This service provided individual therapy to clients in six counselling centres across Laois/Offaly & Longford/Westmeath. He became a consultant and co-author to the UCD studies on adults psychological adjustment to institutional care in their childhoods. This study was commissioned by the Commission to Inquire into Childhood Abuse. Five peer review papers have now been published in connection to this study. During his work as Director of Counselling he completed his dissertation on "Burnout in female counsellor/therapists of the National Counselling Service" (Hull, 2007). He was also contracted by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency to provide a Crisis Pregnancy Counselling Service in the Midlands. In 2008, Jonathan became a Principal Clinical Specialist Psychologist in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin where he worked in Liaison Psychiatry and Cardiac Rehabilitation. He remains in his role as a Specialist Principal Psychologist a half-day a week in the Mater's Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme. He has supervised over 20 trainee psychologists. He is a current Committee Member of the Clinical Division of the Psychological Society of Ireland. |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Egan, J; Walsh, P (2001) 'Sources of stress among adult siblings of Irish people with intellectual disability'. Irish Journal Of Psychology. [No Abstract Available], 22 (1):28-38. [DOI] [Details] |
| Flanagan-Howard, R; Carr, A;Dooley, B; Fitzpatrick, M; Flanagan, E;Tierney, K; White, M; Daly, M; Egan, J (2009) 'Development and initial validation of the Institutional Child Abuse Processes and Coping Inventory among a samle of Irish adult survivors of institutional abuse'. Child abuse & neglect, 33 :586-597. [Details] |
| Carr, A; Dooley, B; Fitzpatrick, M; Flanagan, E; Flanagan-Howard, R; Tierney, K; White, M; Daly, M; Egan, J (2010) 'Adult adjustment of survivors of institutional child abuse in Ireland'. Child abuse & neglect, 34 :477-489. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Hickey, D; Egan, J (2000) 'Stress and burnout in Irish psychologists who work in the area of sexual abuse' Irish Psychologist 26 :100-101. [Details] |
| Hickey, D; Egan J (2000) 'Stress and burnout in Irish psychologists working in the area of sexual abuse: part II, a qualitative analysis' Irish Psychologist 27 :8-9. [Details] |
| Egan, J (2005) 'Dropout and related factors in therapy' Irish Psychologist 32 :27-30. [DOI] [Details] |
| Egan, J;Carr, A (2008) 'Body-centred countertransference in female trauma therapists' Eisteach 8 :22-27. [Details] |
| Carr, A; Flanagan, E; Fitzpatrick, M; Flanagan-Howard, R; Shevlin, M; Tierney, K; White, M; Daly, M; Egan, J (2009) 'Profiles of Irish survivors of Institutional Abuse with different adult attachment styles' Attachment and Human Development 11 :183-201. [Details] |
| Flanagan, E;Carr, A; Dooley, B; Fitzpatrick, M; Flanagan, E; Flanagan-Howard, R;Shevlin, M;Tierney, K; White, M; Daly, M; Egan, J (2009) 'Profiles of resilient survivors of Institutional Abuse in Ireland' International Journal of Child and Family Welfare 2 :56-59. [Details] |
| Fitzpatrick, M; Carr, A; Dooley, B; Flanagan-Howard, R; Flanagan, E; Tierney, K; White, M; Daly, M; Shevlin, M; Egan, J (2010) 'Profiles of adult survivors of severe sexual, physical and emotional institutional abuse in Ireland' Child Abuse Review 19 :387-404. [Details] |
| Booth, A;Trimble, T;Egan, J (2010) 'Body-cented countertransference in a sample of Irish clinical psychologists' Irish Psychologist 36 :284-289. [DOI] [Details] |
| Murphy, G; Egan, J (2010) 'Sleep paralysis and hallucinations: What clinicians need to know' Irish Psychologist 36 :95-98. [DOI] [Details] |
| Kenny, M; Egan, J (2011) 'Somatization disorder: What clinicians need to know' Irish Psychologist 37 :93-96. [DOI] [Details] |
| Gaynor, D; Egan, J (2011) 'Vasovagal syncope (the common faint): What clinicians need to know' Irish Psychologist 37 :176-179. [DOI] [Details] |