Dr Adam Mahoney
| 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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| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | I am happy to supervise project across a range of forensic interests. Projects that fit current work stream interests in terms of examining the impact of interpersonal trauma, violent behaviour, female offending as well as the intersection between these areas are particularly welcomed. |