Dr Mary Ivers BA M.Litt DPhil
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Biography:
| Dr. Mary Ivers has recently completed her doctoral research with the UCD School of Psychology at UCD Dublin, Ireland. Her doctoral research was in the area of Psycho-oncology with a focus on cancer survivorship in Ireland. She developed the CANSURVIVOR PROJECT which was the first formal multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for post-treatment survivors in Ireland. This research was also the largest funded research project in Psycho-oncology in Ireland and was funded by HSE East Coast Area. Mary is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland, the European Health Psychology Society, the International Psycho-Oncology Society and the International Association of Applied Psychologists. She has ten year experience teaching health psychology in UCD in addition to her duties as Research Laboratory manager with the School of Psychology.She is also Head of the Department of Psychology at All Hallows College, a college of DCU, Dublin. |
Research Interests
| My research specialization is in Psycho-oncology, particularly Cancer Survivorship and Rehabilitation. I have additional interests in the areas of stress, burnout and coping. My research takes a positive psychology approach focusing particularly on Hope and Optimism. Other areas of interest are Volunteerism and Health inequalities. |
Other Journals
Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U.; (2009) 'Focusing on survivorship: improving our knowledge of life after cancer' CancerWise 8 (3) :20-22.  [DOI] [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. and Malone, K. ; (2006) The CANSURVIVOR Project: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Survivorship 8th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology Venice, [Details] |
| Ivers, M., Bates, U. and Dooley, B. ; (2004) Investigating the Bio-Psycho-Social Needs of Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors in the ECAHB Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference Cork, Ireland, , 18-NOV-04 - 18-NOV-04 [Details] |
| Ivers, M. Dooley, B., Bates, U., Barnes, E., Craddock, K., Reilly, C., Slevin, M., Toole, C., Malone, K. ; (2009) Optimizing Survivorship: Using the findings from the CANSURVIVOR Project studies Psychology, Health and Medicine Dublin, Ireland, [Details] |
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. Barnes, E., Craddocck, C., Reilly, C., Slevin, M., Toole, C. & Malone, K.; (2008) The CANSURVIVOR Project: Development and evaluation of a bio-psychosocial rehabilitation pilot programme for the post-treatment survivors to maximise quality of life . In: Holland, J & Watson, M eds. 10th World World Congress of Psycho-Oncology Madrid, Spain, , 09-JUN-08 - 13-JUN-08 , pp.S143-S144 [Details] |
| Vaughan, H., McDermott, E., Ivers, M. and Moriarty, M. ; (2008) A Survey of Upper Body Morbidity and Health-Related Quality of Life Issues in 268 Patients 2-3 years Post Breast Cancer Treatment MASSC/ISOO Symposium. Supportive Care in Cancer,16 (6), 619-756 upportive Care in Cancer,16 (6), 619-756, [Details] |
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. & Malone, K. ; (2007) The CANSURVIVOR Project: A Multidisciplinary Survivorship program 25th Annual Conference of the Irish Association for Nurses in Oncology (IANO) Galway, Ireland, , 19-OCT-07 - 19-OCT-07 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M. Dooley, B., Bates, U., Barnes, E., Craddock, K., Reilly, C., Slevin, M., Toole, C., Malone, K. ; (2007) The CANSURVIVOR Project: Development and Evaluation of a Bio-psychosocial Rehabilitation Programme for Post-treatment Survivors to Maximise Quality of Life and Quality Cancer Care 9th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology (IPOS) London, , 18-SEP-07 - 18-SEP-07 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. and Malone, K. ; (2006) Quality of Life, Health Beliefs and Health Behaviours after Cancer: findings from the CANSURVIVOR Survey 37th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland Galway, Ireland, , 10-NOV-06 - 10-NOV-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Bates, U., Malone, K. & Ivers, M. ; (2006) Mindfulness based Cognitive therapy Groups for Oncology Patients: A Pilot Outpatient Study The Second International Cancer Rehabilitation Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, , 01-APR-06 - 01-APR-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. & Malone, K. ; (2006) Developing The First Cancer Survivor Rehabilitation Programme in Ireland: Exploring the Bio-Psycho-Social needs of Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors The Second International Cancer Rehabilitation Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, , 01-APR-06 - 01-APR-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B., Bates, U. and Malone, K; (2006) The CANSURVIVOR Project: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Survivorship 8th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology Venice, , 16-OCT-06 - 16-OCT-06 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M., Dooley, B. Bates, U.; (2005) Developing the CANSURVIVOR Project Rehabilitation Programme: meeting the bio-psycho-needs of post-treatment cancer survivors in the ECAHB 36th Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland , 17-NOV-05 - 20-NOV-05 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M. Dooley, B. & Bates, U.; (2004) Investigating the Bio-Psycho-Social Needs of Post-Treatment Cancer Survivors in the ECAHB 35th Annual Conference of The Psychological Society of Ireland Cork, , 01-NOV-04 [Details] | |||||||||
| Ivers, M. & Dooley, B.; (2001) On the Line: An Investigation of Stress And Burnout in Irish Helpline Volunteers 32nd Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference, Westport Westport, , 01-NOV-01 [Details] | |||||||||
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Published Reports
| Ivers, M; Dooley, B. and Bates, U.; (2009) Development, implementation and evaluation of a multidisciplinary cancer rehabilitation programme: The CANSURVIVOR Project: meeting post-treatment cancer survivors needs. HSE, Dublin. [DOI] [Details] |
Associations
| Association: Registered member Psychological Society of Ireland, Member of Division of Health Psychology (DHP), PSI. , Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Member of the European Health Psychology Society., Function/Role: |
| Association: Member of the International Psycho-Oncology Society, Function/Role: |
| Association: Member of the International Association of Applied Psychology., Function/Role: |
Education
| Year 2008 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: DPhil Subject: |
| Year 2008 Institution: UCD Qualification: PhD Subject: Psychology |
| Year 2002 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: M Litt Subject: |
| Year 1997 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BA Subject: |