Publications

Academic journal articles 

2025 

• Carey, A., Tibbs, M., Warren‐Perry, A., Petrie, N., Kathryn, S., McCrum, S., & Duffy, J. (2025). Amplify and Advocate: Implementing a Youth Mental Health Advocacy Project, a Collaborative Rights‐Based Approach Using COM‐B, APEASE, and the Lundy Model. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.70009. 
• Dhonnagáin, N. M., O’Reilly, A., O’Brien, G., & Dooley, B. (2025). Understanding Participation in Integrated Youth Mental Health Service Research: Lessons Learned From a Feasibility Study With Jigsaw. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 19(2), e70000.
• Moore, J., Doyle, E., Carey, E., Blix, A., Booth, A., Rossouw, J., O’Reilly, A., O’Brien, S. & Duffy, J., (2025). Predicting Reliable Improvements in Primary Care Youth Mental Health. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 19(1), p.e13637.

2024 

• Blix, A., Dwan-O’Reilly, M., Walsh, L., Booth, A., Heary, C., & Hennessy, E. (2024). Secondary school staff experiences of supporting and promoting adolescent mental health in Ireland. Irish Educational Studies, 1-22. 
•  Doyle, E., Carey, E., Rossouw, J., Booth, A., Rickwood, D., & O’Reilly, A. (2024). Examining the psychometric properties of the headspace Youth (mental health) Service Satisfaction Scale in a mental health service in Ireland. Child: Care, Health and Development, 50(1), e13220.  
•  Dwan-O’Reilly, M., Walsh, L., Booth, A., Heary, C., & Hennessy, E. (2024). Measuring School Staff confidence and worries to deliver Mental Health Content: An examination of the Psychometric properties of two measures in a sample of secondary School Staff. School Mental Health, 16(1), 41-52. 
•  Mac Dhonnagáin, N., O’Reilly, A., Shevlin, M., & Dooley, B. (2024). Examining Predictors of Psychological Distress Among Youth Engaging with Jigsaw for a Brief Intervention. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 55(3), 731-743. 
•  Murphy, R., Huggard, L., Fitzgerald, A., Hennessy, E., & Booth, A. (2024). A systematic scoping review of peer support interventions in integrated primary youth mental health care. Journal of community psychology, 52(1), 154-180. 

 2023 

• Mahon, C., Hamburger, D., Webb, J. B., Yager, Z., Howard, E., Booth, A., & Fitzgerald, A. (2023). Protocol of a cluster randomised trial of BodyKind: a school-based body image programme for adolescents. BMC public health, 23(1), 2246. 

 2022 

 O’Reilly, A., McKenna, N., & Fitzgerald, A. (2022). Measuring goal progress using the goal-based outcome measure in Jigsaw – A primary care youth mental health service. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 27(3), 238–245, doi:10.1111/camh.12489. 

2017 

• Peiper, N., Illback, R.J., O’Reilly, A., Clayton, R. (2017). Latent class analysis of need descriptors within an Irish youth mental health early intervention program toward a typology of need. Early Interv Psychiatry, 11(1), 37-46, doi: 10.1111/eip.12213. 

Conference presentations 

 2025 

• Blix, A., Doyle, E., O’Dwyer, B., Moore, J. (2025, May 21st). Insights on an evaluation framework for the implementation of new digital technology within mental healthcare [Oral session]. Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference, Granada, Spain. 
• Blix, A. (2025, January 28th). Jigsaw, Youth Mental Health in Ireland, and the Introduction of a New EHR [Oral session]. Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services Conference, Online Conference. 
•  Blix, A., Moore, J., O’Dwyer, B., Doyle, E., Smith, J., Cullinan, S., Lyng, J. & Duffy, J. (2025, March 19th). Evaluating the implementation of a national Electronic Health Record system in a primary care youth mental health service [Table top session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.  
•  Carey, A., O’Brien, S.L., Allen, C., Nouaha, L., Ni Chinsealach, J., Kathryn, S., McCrum, S. & Kavanagh, D. (2025, March 19th). Exploring the impact of youth participation in the mental health landscape on Irish LGBTQ+ young people [Table top session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
•  Duffy, J., Moore, J., Cullinan, S., Smith, J., & Lyng, J. (2025, March 19th). Trends in Service Utilisation: Insights from Jigsaw’s National Programme of Early Intervention Youth Mental Health (2017-2022) [Table top session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.  
• Duffy, J., Moore, J., Cullinan, S., Smith, J., Doyle, E. & Blix, A. (2025, March 20th). Implementing an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy in Jigsaw: the National Centre for Youth Mental Health [Lightening session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.  
•  Fitzgerald, A., O’Reilly, A. & McKenna, N. (2025, March 20th). Global Innovations in Outcome Measurement: Goal-based outcome measurement in Ireland—implementation of goal-based outcome measurement and its impact on young people and practice [Symposium session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• McCrum, S., Kathryn, S., Petrie, N., Warren-Perry, A., Carey, A., Tibbs, M., Doyle, E. & Duffy, J. (2025, March 19th). Amplify & Advocate: An Irish Youth Mental Health National Advocacy Project, using a Rights-based Approach, and the APEASE Criteria and COM-B Model [Oral session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.  
• Moore, J., C., & Blix, A. (2025, February 4th). Developing a Care Pathway [Poster session]. National Office of Clinical Audit RSCI, Dublin, Ireland.
• Moore, J., Duffy, J. & Cullinan, S. (2025, March 20th). Scaling and Sustaining Jigsaw: A Yearlong Study of Implementation Strategies in Ireland’s National Early Intervention Youth Mental Health Programme [Oral session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• Murphy, R. Moore, J. & Fitzgerald, A. (2025, March 21st). Peer support is the missing piece of the puzzle”: An evidence-based approach to developing peer support in Jigsaw-The National Centre for Youth Mental Health [Symposium session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• Ryall, V., Tee, K. & Smith, J. (2025, March 20th). Keeping Family in the Loop: the vital role of family and community in good mental health care of young people [Oral session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.
•   Tibbs, M., Dwan O’Reilly, M., Carey, A. & Fitzgerald, A. (2025, March 19th). The Co-creation of an Evaluability Assessment and Programme Theory for an Irish Live Chat Service for Youth Mental Health [Lightening session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• Tibbs, M. & Fitzgerald, A. (2025, March 20th). The Demographic, Psychosocial, and Service Engagement Profile of Young People Engaging with an Irish Live Chat Service [Lightening session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• Tibbs, M., Dwan O’Reilly, M., O’Reilly, A. & Fitzgerald, A. (2025, March 21st). Online Synchronous Chat Counselling for Youth Mental Health: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review [Oral session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada. 
• Walsh, I., McCashin, D., Dunne S., Karl, J. & Moore, J. (2025, March 19th). A youth-led approach to implementing digital mental health technologies in primary care for youth mental health difficulties [Lightening session]. 7th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Vancouver, Canada.   

2024   

• Tibbs, M. (2024, June 13th). Implications of Social Media on Youth Mental Health [Panel presentation]. Dublin City University Future of Psychology Conference, Dublin, Ireland.  
•  Tibbs, M. (2024, June 21st). Online Synchronous Chat Counselling for Young People: A Systematic Review [Oral session]. 2nd International Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference. Derry-Londonderry.  

 2023 

•  Blix, A., Dwan O’Reilly, M. & Booth, A. (2023, February 22nd) Secondary School Staff Confidence and Worries about Delivering Mental Health Content. [Poster session]. Frayme Learning Institute, Online Conference. 
•  Dwan O’Reilly, M., Tibbs, M., Heary, C. & Hennessy, E. (2023, July 6th). Mental Health Literacy in Secondary Schools: A Study of Staff Involvement in Jigsaw’s One Good School Initiative [Oral session]. 44th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association, Bologna, Italy. 
•  Dwan O’Reilly, M., Tibbs, M., O’Brien, S., Heary, C. & Hennessy, E. (2023, July 6th). Secondary School Staff Perspectives and Experiences of Youth Mental Health: A Review of the International Literature [Poster session]. 44th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association, Bologna, Italy.
• Moore, J., Hughes, F, Lyng, J & Douglas, M.C. (2023, June 26th). Reporting and Specifying the Strategies used in the initial implementation of digital mental health care [Oral session]. Inaugural International Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference. Belfast.
• Murphy, R. (2023, December 6th). Peer Support for Youth Mental Health: Exploring the Views of Mental Health Professionals in Ireland. [Poster session]. Children’s Research Network Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
• O’Brien S., Doyle, E., & Booth, A. (2023, July 11th). Examining Attendance at Jigsaw across Modes of Therapeutic Delivery [Oral session]. 44th Annual Conference of the International School Psychology Association Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Tibbs, M. (2023, July 24th). Communicating versus Scrolling – Do Distinct Social Media Behaviours Differentially Predict Youth Mental Health Difficulties, Life Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem Over Time? A Longitudinal Analysis. [Oral session]. British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Conference, Newcastle, UK. 

2022 

• Booth, A. & McCarron, C. (2022, June 16th). One Good School: Evaluating and Refining a Whole-School Approach to Youth Mental Health Promotion [Oral session]. National University of Ireland Galway Health Promotion Conference, Galway, Ireland.
• Booth, A., Rossouw, J. & Doyle, E. (2022, October 1st). Examining Predictors of Reliable Reduction in Distress among Young People engaging with Jigsaw for a Brief Intervention [Oral session]. 6th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Booth, A., O’Hanrahan, S. & Warren-Perry, A. (2022, October 1st). Working in Partnership: A Review of Organisational Approaches to Youth Engagement in Mental Health Research. [Poster session]. 6th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Booth, A., Rossouw, J. & Doyle, E. (2022, October 1st). Navigating COVID-19: Examining Engagement with Jigsaw Youth Mental Health Services over the Course of the Pandemic. [Tabletop session]. 6th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Dwan O’Reilly, M., Tibbs, M., Heary, C. & Hennessy, E. (2022, June 20th). A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of School Staff Perspectives of Youth Mental Health [Oral session]. ESCAP conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• Dwan O’Reilly, M. (2022, July 9th). Mental Health Literacy in Secondary Schools: A Study of the Feasibility and Acceptability of Jigsaw’s One Good School Initiative for School Staff [Poster session]. University College Dublin Research Day, Dublin, Ireland.
• Dwan O’Reilly. (2022, August 26th). Examining the Psychometric Properties of two Measures designed to assess Staff Confidence to deliver Mental Health Content in a Secondary School Context. [Poster session]. 18th European Association for Research on Adolescence Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
• Farrell, K., Rooney, L., Booth, A., O’Reilly, A. & McGrory, S (2022, November 11th). Evaluating the Acceptability and Feasibility of One Good School: Student Perspective. [Oral session]. Annual Psychological Society of Ireland Conference, Laois, Ireland.
• Tibbs, M. (2022, October 1st). Demographic, Psychosocial and Service Engagement Characteristics of Young People attending an Irish Live Chat Service. [Poster session]. 6th International Association for Youth Mental Health, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

  2021 

•  Hill, S. (2021, September 1st). Life in a Pandemic Time 1 Emerging Findings. [Oral session]. Annual Psychological Society of Ireland Conference, Online Conference. 
•   Hill, S. & Farrell, K. (2021, September 23rd). Youth Participation. Triumph Network Children and Young People’s Mental Health Early Career Researcher Forum, Online Event. 
•   Tibbs, M. (2021, June 8th). A rapid review investigating the potential impact of a pandemic on the mental health of young people aged 12–25 years [Oral session]. DissCOVID UCD Conference, Dublin, Ireland. 
•   Rebecca, M. & O’Reilly, A. (2021, May 10th). Lessons from Implementation of Youth Mental Health Work Online during COVID-19 [Oral session]. Annual Health Promotion Conference. 
•  Rossouw, J., Carey, E., Doyle, E., O’Brien, G., Cullinan, S., O’Reilly, A. (2021). The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Engagement with Jigsaw Youth Mental Health Services [Poster session]. Mental Health Summit.  

  2020 

•  O’Reilly, A. (2020, September 10th). Youth Anxiety before/after COVID [Invited speaker]. YOULEAD Conference. 
•   O’Reilly, A. (2020, November 19th). Measuring Goal Progress in Jigsaw using the Goal Based Outcome [Invited speaker]. Annual Psychological Society of Ireland Conference, Ireland.