Dr Emily Cooney

2025

Journal - Research Article

Huffman, S. E., de Valdivia, M.-P., Davidson, L., Cooney, E., & Watson, J. L. (2025). The invisible connection: A qualitative analysis of the experience of support‐seeking siblings of individuals with borderline personality disorder traits. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 81(12), 1221-1230. doi: 10.1002/jclp.70030

Sullivan, G., Zhang, J., Silailai, L., Wright, K., Cooney, E., Pettie, M., & Ball, J. (2025). Drug harm prevention needs among adolescents in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from the Youth19 survey. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1622), 14-31. doi: 10.26635/6965.7062

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, 64(9), 997-1029. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2025.01.017

2024

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 Other

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/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooney, E., Brittain, E., Mathieson, F., & Patel, R. (2024). Feeling like I could take a big breath: Evaluation of a supervision group for Indigenous Māori and culturally diverse health professionals within a cognitive behaviour therapy training course. In S. Stankovic, M. Mitković Vončina & N. Petrović (Eds.), European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) 54th Annual Congress: New Age of CBT: Challenges and Perspectives. (pp. 228-229). Retrieved from https://eabct2024.org

Cooney, E., Mathieson, F., & Barnfield, T. (2024). Zooming into the unknown: A comparison of CBT teaching outcomes for online and in-person classes during the pandemic. In S. Stankovic, M. Mitković Vončina & N. Petrović (Eds.), European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) 54th Annual Congress: New Age of CBT: Challenges and Perspectives. (pp. 160-161). Retrieved from https://eabct2024.org

Cooney, E. (2024). Crowd-sourcing acceptance: reducing shame in PTSD treatment through targeted surveys. In S. Stankovic, M. Mitković Vončina & N. Petrović (Eds.), European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) 54th Annual Congress: New Age of CBT: Challenges and Perspectives. (pp. 67-68). Retrieved from https://eabct2024.org

Cooney, E., Forsythe-Cox, V., & Schmidt, S. (2024). Teaching trainees to tightrope: Supervision in DBT. Proceedings of the 7th European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) Congress: Treating Personality Pathology in a Time of Change. (pp. 156-157). Retrieved from https://www.esspd.eu/

Cooney, E., Jones, H., Davis, K., Randell, N., Murray, C., Knight, K., … Maiava, M. (2024). Beyond the pale: Māori and Pacific representation in DBT programs in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the 7th European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) Congress: Treating Personality Pathology in a Time of Change. (pp. 154-155). Retrieved from https://www.esspd.eu/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cooney, E., Batcheler, M., Whaanga, M., & Forsythe Cox, V. (2024, October). Both and and: DBT adherence and cultural responsivity. Verbal presentation at the Ngā Kūaka: Inaugural DBT conference for Aotearoa Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.

2023

Journal - Research Article

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

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

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooney, E., Roguski, M., Bennett, S., & Gilmour, F. (2023). What does it take to stop hitting home? Voices of family violence. Proceedings of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (NZCCP) National Conference. Retrieved from https://www.nzccp.co.nz

2022

Journal - Research Article

Cooney, E. B., Walton, C. J., & Gonzalez, S. (2022). Getting DBT online down under: The experience of Australian and New Zealand Dialectical Behaviour Therapy programmes during the Covid-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 17(10), e0275636. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275636

Jenkin, G., Quigg, S., Paap, H., Cooney, E., Peterson, D., & Every-Palmer, S. (2022). Places of safety? Fear and violence in acute mental health facilities: A large qualitative study of staff and service user perspectives. PLoS ONE, 17(5), e0266935. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266935

2018

Chapter in Book - Other

Cooney, E., & Greenwood, L. (2018). Working with adolescents who want to kill themselves. In R. Anderson (Ed.), Violent adolescents: Understanding the destructive impulse. (pp. 73-86). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429484711

Journal - Research Article

Thabrew, H., Gandeza, E., Bahr, G., Bettany, D., Bampton, C., Cooney, E., … Tiatia-Seath, J. (2018). The management of young people who self-harm by New Zealand Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Cutting-edge or cutting corners? Australasian Psychiatry, 26(2), 152-159. doi: 10.1177/1039856217748248

2009

Journal - Research Article

Chapman, A. L., Derbidge, C. M., Cooney, E., Hong, P. Y., & Linehan, M. M. (2009). Temperament as a prospective predictor of self-injury among patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23(2), 122-140. doi: 10.1521/pedi.2009.23.2.122

1996

Journal - Research Article

White, K. G., & Cooney, E. B. (1996). Consequences of remembering: Independence of performance at different retention intervals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22(1), 51-59. doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.22.1.51