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External resources

• ACT for Psychosis Recovery book
• ACT for Psychosis Recovery Website

Current NHS consultant posts held

Emma is currently employed full-time as a Senior Clinical Psychologist in a London NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust.

Emma regularly provides clinical supervision, consultation and training to trainee & qualified mental health professionals, and is a visiting lecturer on post-graduate & doctoral psychology courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN) at King’s College London and University College London (UCL)

Research interests

Emma has published in a range of highly respected peer-reviewed journals & presented at a number of national & international conferences.

She published a psychological therapy manual in March 2018 entitled 'ACT for Psychosis Recovery'.

Publications

Books:
O’Donoghue, E.K., et al (Eds) (2018). ACT for Psychosis Recovery: A practical manual for group-based interventions using acceptance and commitment therapy. New Harbinger Publication, Inc.

O’Donoghue, E.K., Oliver, J., Morris, E.M.J. (2018). I gruppi Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) per persone con disturbi psictici [Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Groups for People with Psychosis]

Journal Articles:
O’Donoghue, E. et al (2018). Balancing ACT: Evaluating the effectiveness of psychoeducation and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) groups for people with bipolar disorder. A pilot randomised controlled trial. Trials.

Jolley, S., O’Donoghue, E., et al (2018). ACT for Recovery. A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of third wave group cognitive therapy in promoting wellbeing in service users and caregivers in community psychosis settings.

Smallwood, J., Jolley, S., Makhijani, J, Grice, S., O’Donoghue, E., et al (2016). Implementing specialist psychological support for caregivers in psychosis services: A preliminary report. Psychosis, 9:2, 119-128,

Butler, L., O’Donoghue, E., et al. (2016). Running Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Groups for Psychosis in Community Settings. Journal of Contextual Behaviour Science.

O’Donoghue, E., et al (in prep). ACT for Recovery. Investigating mechanisms of change in ACT workshops for service users and caregivers in community psychosis teams.