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Dr. Mark Monahan

Assistant Professor (School of Nursing & Midwifery)
DOLIER STREET - SCHOOL OF NURSING
      
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Dr. Mark Monahan

Assistant Professor (School of Nursing & Midwifery)
DOLIER STREET - SCHOOL OF NURSING

 monahanm@tcd.ie

 3531896 2496


  Health informatics   Mental health nursing   PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS   Psychosocial Interventions   Recovery in Mental Health
Project Title
 STRIVE: Supporting Trauma Resilience and Informed Values in the Workforce
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Summary
STRIVE (Supporting Trauma Resilience and Informed Values in the Workforce), an MSCA Doctoral Network, has a vision to improve the well-being of trauma-exposed human services professionals in Europe. Its objectives are to: 1. Understand the impact of trauma by investigating how traumatic events affect the emotional, physical, and psychological well-being of professionals. 2. Protect and sustain the workforce by developing strategies to support and retain professionals working with vulnerable populations. 3. Promote greater use of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) by encouraging organizations to adopt TIC principles to enhance service delivery. 4. Enhance workforce well-being by designing, implementing, and evaluating mental health promotion programs for trauma-exposed professionals. 5. Train the next generation of researchers to study the impacts of trauma, including childhood and lifetime traumas, especially in relation to severe mental illness.
Funding Agency
EU
Programme
HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01-01
Project Type
MSCA-DN
Project Title
 TRISE: TRISE - Trauma Responsive and Informed Society in Europe
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Summary
This project sought to understand the effects of traumatic events on individuals" emotional, physical and psychological well-being by promoting a multi-layered and human-centred understanding of trauma in mental health professionals, public servants, educators, and humanitarian workers exposed to trauma, vicarious, perhaps overgenerational, traumatization and involved in trauma-informed settings.
Funding Agency
EU
Programme
HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01
Project Type
MSCA Doctoral Network
Project Title
 Strenco - Strengthening multi-professional competencies in mental health in an international context, through co-production with academics, students, service users and professionals.
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Sept 2017
To
April 2021
Summary
The aim of this project is to strengthen collaboration between academics and students, service users and practitioners and to develop multi-professional competences in mental health students through a process of co-production. The project uses a participatory research design with collaborative learning methods. (Duration extended - Covid Affected)
Funding Agency
HEA
Programme
ERASMUS+
Project Type
KA203
Person Months
42
Project Title
 Report of the Scoping Exercise on the Introduction of Graduate Entry Mental Health Nursing in Ireland
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April 2016
To
April 2017
Summary
The HSE National Mental Health Division, through the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director commissioned and funded this scoping review. It explores the feasibility of introducing a graduate entry Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing programme, leading to nursing registration in Ireland. The report comprises six chapters. The introductory chapter focuses on the background context and the methodology used to achieve four key objectives. These objectives were: Objective 1: To conduct a literature review on GEN, with particular emphasis on graduate entry Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, and explore the process, challenges and outcome of GEN programmes. Objective 2: To explore experiences of designing, delivering and undertaking GEN programmes, with specific emphasis on mental health nursing. Objective 3: To outline the necessary steps to be taken for the approval of GEN programmes in Ireland. Objective 4: To identify the possible source of a potential pool of graduates for programme uptake in Ireland. The report concludes with recommendations and the anticipated actions required across multiple stakeholders for the introduction of a graduate entry mental health nursing programme in Ireland.
Funding Agency
HSE ONMSD/DoH Mental Health Division
Project Type
Scoping Exercise
Person Months
12
Project Title
 EOLAS: A different kind of voice
From
2019
To
2020
Summary
The 'EOLAS the road we travel...'photographic project, which forms part of an overall evaluation of the EOLAS programmes, features the work of service users and family members, from around the country, who facilitate and participate in the delivery of the EOLAS Programmes. Through the medium of photography and in their own words they share their stories of living with a severe mental health problem, the journey they take towards recovery and how the EOLAS process has helped them on that journey. The EOLAS photographic project was funded through the HRB Knowledge, Exchange and Dissemination award to Professor Agnes Higgins and her team in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, together with Dr Pat Gibbons, Celbridge Mental Health Services.
Funding Agency
Health Research Board
Programme
KEDS

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Vice Chiar for Communications with the European Network for Education, Training and Research (ENTER) September 2020
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Basic Basic Basic
Irish Basic Basic Basic
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Irish Institute of Mental Health Nurses 2009 2023
Vice Chair of Communications European Network for Education, Training and Research Sept 2020
Begley, Dr. Thelma, Downes, C., O'Sullivan, K., DrVries, J., Doyne, L., Keogh, B., Molloy, R., Monaghan, M., & Higgins, A., Healthcare and Mental Health experiences of People with Intersex Variation(s) in Ireland, Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference (THEconf 2025), School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD, March 4th to 6th, 2025, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Begley, T., Downes, C., O'Sullivan, K., Doyle, L., Keogh, B. DeVries, J., Molloy, R., Monahan, M., Kennedy, M. & HIggins A., Mental Health Experiences of People with Variations in Sex Characteristics (VSC): Findings from Being LGBTQI+ Study, Intersex Insights: Heritage; Visibility and Recognition, Dublin City University, 9th and 10th June, 2025, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Higgins, A., Downes, C., O'Sullivan, K., de Vries, J., Molloy, R., Monahan, M., Keogh, B., Doyle, L., Begley, T., Corocan, P., The National Study on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the LGBTQI+ Communities in Ireland: Key Findings Report, Key Findings, Trinity Collee Dublin, April, 2024, p1 - 22, Notes: [This report presents findings of the Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland study. The largest study of its kind to date. It is a follow-up of the LGBTIreland study (2016). This research has been funded by the HSE and its findings are eagerly awaited by the Irish Government in order to develop relevant policy.], Report, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Mark Monahan, Professional dissonance: Working with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in a community mental health team, Deinstitutionalisation...That word., Lipica Slovenia, 01.06.2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
O'Sullivan K; Downes C; Monahan M; Morrissey J; Byrne G; Farrell G; Gibbons P; Higgins A, Operationalising a Recovery-Oriented Support and Information Programme Online: The EOLAS Programme, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, Notes: [DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20054417], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Akunna Jane Okafor, Mark Monahan, Effectiveness of Psychoeducation on Burden among Family Caregivers of Adults with Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Nursing Research and Practice, 2023, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mark Monahan, Carmel Downes, Rebecca Murphy, Jennifer Barry, Louise Doyle, Patrick Gibbons and Agnes Higgins, The barriers and enablers of change for community-based interventions Lessons from the implementation of a co-produced psychoeducation programme for psychosis, ENTER Conference 2022: " The experiences of the transition from mental health inpatient settings to community care in Europe, Online - (Essen, Germany), 30.06.2022, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Higgins, A., Gibbons, P., Downes, C., Doyle, L.,Hevey, D., Monahan, M., Kroll, T., Barry, J., Eustace-Cook, J.& Murphy, R. , Scoping review of factors influencing the implementation of group psychoeducational initiatives for people experiencing mental health difficulties and their families. , Journal of Mental Health, 31, (6), 2022, p859 - 872, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  DOI
Higgins A, Downes C, Murphy M, Barry J, Monahan M, Doyle L & Gibbons P., Factors Infuencing Attendees' Engagement with Group Psychoeducation: A Multi‑stakeholder Perspective, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Barry, J; Monahan, C; Ferguson, S; Lee, K; Kelly, R; Monahan, M; Murphy, R; Gibbons, P; Higgins, A, I came, I saw, I conquered': Reflections on Participating in a PhotoVoice Project, Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice , 6, (4), 2021, p257 - 268, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Higgins A, Downes C, O'Sullivan K, Monahan M, Begley T, Molloy R, Keogh B, Doyle L, de Vries J., Healthcare experiences, wellbeing and mental health of people who have variations in sex characteristics in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, May, 2025, 1-54, Report, PUBLISHED
de Vries, J., Downes, C., O'Sullivan, K., Molloy, R., Monahan, M., Keogh, B., Doyle, L., Begley, T., Corcoran, P., & Higgins, A., Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland: The National Study on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the LGBTQI+ Communities in Ireland, Research Club Presentation, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Dublin, Ireland, 04/07/2024, 2024, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, 1 - 21pp, Notes: [presentation has been published on Government Department Website], Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Higgins A., Downes C., O"Sullivan K., de Vries J., Molloy R., Monahan M., Keogh B., Doyle L., Begley T., Corcoran P., Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland: The National Study on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the LGBTQI+ Communities in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, April, 2024, 1-289, Report, PUBLISHED
Dr Cristina Vasilica, Lorna Mcglynn, Dr Mariyana Schoultz and Prof Heather Iles-Smith, Dr Jean Morrissey, Prof Agnes Higgins, Katja Kokkinen and Taja Kiiskilä, Johan Mestdagh, Sien Seynhaeve, Dr Evanthia Sakellari, Christos Prapas, Prof. Areti Lagiou, Anne Kivimäki, Jussi Savolainen and Dr Nina Kilkku, Dr Mark Monahan, The STRENCO Logic Model for working in mental health, 2021, Report, PUBLISHED
Johan Mestdagh, Sien Seynhaeve, Dr Cristina Vasilica, Lorna Mcglynn, Dr Mariyana Schoultz and Prof Heather Iles-Smith, Dr Jean Morrissey, Prof Agnes Higgins, Katja Kokkinen and Taja Kiiskilä,Dr Evanthia Sakellari, Christos Prapas, Prof. Areti Lagiou, Anne Kivimäki, Jussi Savolainen and Dr Nina Kilkku, Dr Mark Monahan., Report on the development of the STRENCO Competency Assessment Tool for Coproduction in Mental Health , February, 2021, Report, PUBLISHED
Monahan M, Holme I, Stacey G, Morrissey J, De Vries J, McKenna H, Nash M, Higgins A., Report of the Scoping Exercise on the Introduction of Graduate Entry Mental Health Nursing in Ireland, Dublin, DoH, 2017, Report, COMPLETED
Higgins, A., Carroll, M., Gill, A., Downes, C., Monahan, M., Perinatal Mental Health Care: Best Practice Principles for Midwives, Public Health Nurses and Practice Nurses, Dublin, Health Service Executive, September, 2017, Report, PUBLISHED
Monahan M, Reflection, Emotion and Knowledge of the Self, Kobe City University, Journal of Research Institute, 53, (1), 2016, p51 - 78, Notes: [Current Issues and New Thoughts on Reflective Practice], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Nash M. Bracken-Scally M. Smith V. Higgins A. Eustace-Cook J. Monahan M. Callaghan P. Romanos MT, Literature review using systematic approaches to explore physical illness co-morbidity among people with serious mental illness and related healthcare interventions, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 2015, 1-, Report, PUBLISHED
Higgins A., Hevey D., Monaghan M., McBennett P. & O'Shea M, The Eolas Programme Phase Two Research Outcomes., Trinity College Dublin, Dublin., 2015, Report, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
Provost Teaching Award 2007
Dean's Award for Curriculum Innovation (Health Sciences) 2016
Mental Health Nursing. Working with people given a medical diagnosis of schizophrenia. Working with families where a diagnosis of psychosis is present. Facilitation of reflective practice in nursing.