Dr. Colin Mahoney, Psychology

Name:

Dr. Colin Mahoney

Title:

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology

Department:

Psychology

Describe your research in about 200 words.

My research focuses on identifying risk, maintenance, and protective factors for the symptoms and diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUD) among women following exposure to interpersonal violence (i.e., sexual violence, intimate partner violence, community violence) and among veterans of all gender identities following exposure to military trauma (e.g., combat trauma, military sexual trauma) through (1) experimental, (2) prospective, and (3) qualitative studies. The intention is to investigate these processes to inform, enhance, and develop evidence-based assessments and treatments for co-occurring PTSD and SUD. I am particularly interested in using this knowledge to develop behavioral assessment tools, brief face-to-face interventions, and digital health interventions.

What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?

That it’s more about one’s trajectory in terms of their potential success than it is about their past experiences.