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Dr John McMullen

McMullen, JohnHonorary Research Fellow

Email: jmcmullen01@qub.ac.uk

Address: David Kerr Building,
School of Psychology,
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN

Biography

BA (hons) Psychology (QUB): 1999 – 2002

PGCE (Stranmillis University College): 2004-2005

Primary school teacher: 2005-2009

Doctorate in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology (QUB): 2009-2012

Educational Psychologist (BELB): 2012- to date

Main areas of Interest

Social, emotional & behavioural difficulties

Effects of war and conflict on children and young people

Therapeutic intervention in schools

Publications

McMullen, J., O’Callaghan, P., Richards, J., Eakin, J. & Rafferty, H. (2012). Screening for Traumatic Exposure and Psychological Distress among War-Affected Adolescents in Post-Conflict northern Uganda. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(9), 1489-98.

McMullen, J., O’Callaghan, P., Shannon, C., Black, A. & Eakin, J. (2013). Group trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy with former child soldiers and other war-affected boys in the DR Congo: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

O’Callaghan, P., McMullen, J., Shannon, C., Rafferty, H., & Black, A. (2013). A randomized controlled trial of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for sexually exploited, war-affected, Congolese Girls. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(4): 359-369.

O’Callaghan P, McMullen J, Shannon C, Rafferty H, Black A. A randomized trial of a trauma-focused and non trauma-focused intervention with war-affected Congolese youth. (Under review).

O’Callaghan, P., Branham, L., Shannon, C., Betancourt, T., Dempster, M. & McMullen, J. A Family-Focused, Psychosocial Intervention with Young People at Risk of Attack and Abduction in North-Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A Randomised Controlled Trial. (Under review).