Contact Details
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of Psychological Medicine (Wellington)
- Qualifications
- PhD, PGDipCIPs, MNZCCP
- Research summary
- Cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy dissemination, effective interventions for violence to oneself or others.
Research
I am a clinical psychologist with expertise in dialectical and cognitive behaviour therapies, and the treatment of PTSD for people with high-risk behaviour. My research has focused on intervention outcomes for people struggling with addiction, suicidal behaviour, anger and emotion dysregulation.
I also work as an advisor to Oranga Tamariki on the management of tamariki and rangatahi at risk of suicide, and am an adjunct professor at the Yale school of medicine where I collaborate on research and training projects related to dissemination and treatment evaluation.
I provide adherence coding for the Linehan DBT certification board. I have been PI on two small trials of DBT in New Zealand. One was evaluating the feasibility of DBT with men with problems related to anger, and the other was evaluating the feasibility of trialling DBT with suicidal adolescents and their families funded by Te Pou on behalf of the Ministry of Health.
Publications
Wright-Hughes, A., Farrin, A. J., Fonagy, P., Ougrin, D., Stahl, D., Wright, J., … Cooney, E., … Cottrell, D. (2025). Systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis: Reducing self-harm in adolescents: Pooled treatment effects, study, treatment and participant moderators. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2025.01.017 Journal - Research Article
Cooney, E., Mooney, N., & Ryan, P. (2024). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills for men with anger problems in Aotearoa. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 21-28. Journal - Research Article
Hoskin, A., McKenzie, S. K., Cooney, E. B., & Jenkin, G. (2024). Should menstrual cycle data be collected during suspected suicide autopsies? [Research letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 137(1592), 113-115. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Other
McKenzie, S. K., Kelly, M. T., Cooney, E., & Oliffe, J. L. (2023). Men's accounts of anxiety: A photovoice study. SSM Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100356. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100356 Journal - Research Article
Walton, C. J., Gonzalez, S., Cooney, E. B., Leigh, L., & Szwec, S. (2023). Engagement over telehealth: Comparing attendance between dialectical behaviour therapy delivered face-to-face and via telehealth for programs in Australia and New Zealand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Borderline Personality Disorder & Emotion Dysregulation, 10, 16. doi: 10.1186/s40479-023-00221-4 Journal - Research Article