PRIVATE PRACTICE: 1990 – to date

Throughout my career and also currently, I engage in ongoing private practice. Since September 1998, I have begun engaging in full-time private practice. Consulting specialties include Mental Health Consultations/Therapy, Adolescents, Adults and Families, Court Assessments - Civil and Criminal, Developing Young Offender Treatment Programming, and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing.

As a designated specialist of the Employee Assistance Group, Family Services of Greater Vancouver (FSGV), I accept referrals from employees of several employer organizations affiliated to FSGV. This is a patient population group with a wide variety of health, employment adjustment and mental health problems.

Other B.C. private practice activity includes referrals from the Worker's Compensation Board of persons injured in the work setting. Referrals are also received from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for the treatment/management of persons injured and/or traumatized in motor vehicle accidents. Referrals are also received from lawyers with respect to a variety of civil and criminal matters.

From 1991 to 2007, I have provided extensive contracted clinical psychological services on behalf of the Youth Forensic Psychiatric Service. This includes court ordered assessments of Young Offenders, and the provision of treatment and counselling services for post disposition offenders upon referral by probation officers at the Abbotsford Probation Office.

CANADIAN EXPERIENCE: (British Columbia)

1990 to 1998

Psychologist at the Regional Treatment Centre (Pacific) [formerly the Regional Psychiatric Centre], Abbotsford, B.C., an accredited psychiatric hospital within Correctional Services Canada (C.S.C.). From December 1990 to April 1992, I served as the Program Director of the (then) Marginal/Inadequate Offender Unit.

Appointed Psychologist from May 1992 to August 1998 at the Regional Health Centre's Personality Disorder Treatment Program for Sex Offenders, later called the Intensive Treatment Program for Sexual Offenders. This was an intensive 8 month program pioneering innovative treatment approaches. It included the provision of intensive psychodynamic group psychotherapy.

Appointed Acting Community Psychologist, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Ministry for Children and Families, Abbotsford, September 1998 to January 2000.

Appointed staff Psychologist, Workers Compensation Board Of British Columbia (half-time), April 2000 to February 2003 at the Abbotsford Office.

Appointed Acting Supervisor/Team Leader, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Ministry for Children and Family Development, Abbotsford, February 2003 to August 2003.

CANADIAN EXPERIENCE: (Newfoundland)

1981 to 1990

Director of Psychological Services, Waterford Hospital, St. John's, Newfoundland. The Waterford Hospital is a fully accredited provincial psychiatric teaching hospital providing acute admission services, long term/special care, mental retardation services, forensic, psychogeriatric, outpatient, day care and community care services. From 1983/85, I provided direct clinical forensic psychological services to the hospital's Forensic Unit and from 1985/90 provided clinical psychological services mainly to an Acute Psychiatric Unit of the hospital. In addition, clinical assessment, treatment and consultation were provided by the Director to all units and services of the hospital. As department head, I represented the discipline on the major hospital committees including the Clinical Records Committee, Hospital Accreditation Committee, Disaster Committee (Chair), and Secretary for seven years of the hospital's senior clinical committee, the Clinical Advisory Committee.

CANADIAN EXPERIENCE: (British Columbia)

1980 to 1981

Psychologist, Level 4, Provincial Mental Health Services, City of Terrace Community Mental Health Centre, British Columbia, for a period of 1½ years.

R. JUSTIN O'MAHONY
BA., BSc., BAdm(H.S)., MSc(Cl.Psych)., PhD., HDE., AFPsSI., AFBPsS.

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