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School of Psychology: Academic Staff

DR. JONATHAN EGAN

Lecturer in Clinical Psychology

Office: Room 315, Woodquay Ct.
Telephone: (091) 492956
E-mail: Jonathan Egan

Dr. Jonathan Egan

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.

News

Dr. Egan in his role as a committee member of the Division of Clinical Psychology held a two day work-shop (14th and 15th of May) in the Psychological Society of Ireland’s offices in Dublin. The workshop for clinical psychologists was based on the work of Leigh McCullough. Her approach is called Affect Phobia, which is a short-term dynamic psychotherapy which integrates desensitization, gestalt psychology and psychodynamic processes. The trainer was Kristin Ann Ryder Osborn, MA, LMHC Associate in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School ( www.kristinosborn.com). Approximately 50 participants attended and the completed feedback forms indicated that the event was received very positively. The event was generously sponsored by the Division of Clinical Psychology and University College Dublin’s Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme.

Research Interests

His current research interests are two-fold:

(A) Psychological factors related to Cardiac Rehabilitation outcomes and
(B) Burnout and body-centred countertransference in psychologists.

Publications

Kenny, C., Sarma, K., & Egan, J. (2012). An interpretive phenomenological account of the experiences of family carers of the elderly Irish Journal of Psychology, 33 (4).
Caroline Kenny, Kiran M. Sarma & Jonathan Egan (2012): An interpretive phenomenological account of the experiences of family carers of the elderly, The Irish Journal of Psychology, DOI:10.1080/03033910.2012.677994 ( link)
Gaynor, D. & Egan, J. (2011). Commonly prescribed antidepressants: What clinicians need to know. The Irish Psychologist, 37, 292-296.
Gaynor, D. & Egan, J. (2011). Vasovagal syncope (the common faint): What clinicians need to know. The Irish Psychologist, 37,176-179.
Kenny, M. & Egan, J. (2011). Somatization disorder: What clinicians need to know. The Irish Psychologist, 37, 93-96.
Booth, A., Trimble, T., Egan, J. (2010). Body-centred countertransference in a sample of Irish Clinical psychologists. The Irish Psychologist, 36, 284-289.
Carr, A., Flanagan, E., Dooley, B. 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 & Human Development, Volume 11, 183 – 201.
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 and Neglect, 34, 477-489.
Egan, J. (2005). Dropout and related factors in therapy. The Irish Psychologist, 32, 27-30.
Egan, J. & Carr, A. (2008). Body-centred countertransference in female trauma therapists. Eisteach, 8, 22-27.
Egan, J. & Walsh-Noonan, P. (2001). Sources of stress among adult siblings of Irish people with intellectual ability. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 22, 28-38. ( link to paper)
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.
Flanagan, E., Carr, A., Dooley, B., Fitzpatrick, M., 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.
Flanagan-Howard, R., Carr. A., Shevlin. M., 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 sample of Irish adult survivors of institutional abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect, 33, 586-597.
Hickey, D. & Egan, J. (2000a). Stress and burnout in Irish psychologists who work in the area of sexual abuse. The Irish Psychologist, 26, 100-101.
Hickey, D. & Egan, J. (2000b). Stress and burnout in Irish psychologists who work in the area of sexual abuse: Part II, a qualitative analysis. The Irish Psychologist, 27, 8-9.
Murphy, G. & Egan, J. (2010). Sleep paralysis and hallucinations: What clinicians need to know. Irish Psychologist, 36, 95-98.

Presentations

Egan, J., Traynor, A., & McGuire, B. (2012). Predicting session attendance and treatment outcome using the transtheoretical model in an online relaxation and mindfulness based stress reduction intervention for people with Chronic headache Paper presented at The 42nd Psychological Society of Ireland's Annual Conference, Douglas, Cork. Friday the 9th of November 2012.
Egan, J., Howard, R., & Sarma, K. (2012). Correlates of sleep paralysis and unusual sleep experiences in a large student sample. Paper presented at The 42nd Psychological Society of Ireland's Annual Conference, Douglas, Cork. Friday the 9th of November 2012.
Egan. J. (2011). Mindfulness in acute healthcare. Invited workshop at the Compassion in Healthcare conference, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, 12th of May.
Egan. J. (2011). Managing chronic pain. Invited paper presented at the Irish Raynaud's & Scleroderma Society’s Annual Conference, Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin, 16th of May.
Egan. J. Real World Practice. (2011). Poster presented at the 8th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, NUI Galway, 4 April.
Egan, J. (2010). Working with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Invited workshop at the University of Bristol's Department of Experimental Clinical Neuropsychology (April).
Egan, J., Gallagher, A., Murphy, A. Gaynor, D., Quinn, T., & Kenny, M. (2010). A review of cardiac rehabilitation psychology outcomes in Ireland. Paper presented at the Irish Assocation of Cardiac Rehabilitation Annual Conference, Dublin (16/10/2010).
Egan, J., Lennon, R., & Gallagher, A. (2009). Psychological and physical outcomes in Phase III cardiac rehabilitation. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Wexford, November 13-16th.
Egan, J. (2008). Working with adults who have experienced early developmental trauma. Workshop presented at the 38th Psychological Society of Ireland's Annual Conference. Tullow, November 20th-23rd.
Egan, J. & Carr, A. (2005). Burnout in female counsellor/therapists of the NCS: Studies I, II and III. Papers presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Derry, November 17-20th.
Egan, J. & Quinn, M. (2003). The Heart and soul of change: What works in therapy. Symposium presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland.

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