Professor Olive Healy

School of Psychology

Trinity College Dublin

The University of Dublin

Ireland

 

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Professor Olive Healy is a Behavioral Psychologist and Doctoral Board Certified Behaviour Analyst® with clinical expertise and research interests in neurodevelopmental conditions including Autism. She is Director of the Masters program in Behavior Analysis at the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin. After serving for seven years as Lecturer in Psychology (2006-2013) at the University of Galway, Olive joined the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin and is now a Professor in Psychology. Dr. Healy prepares students to become expert practitioners who can work effectively within systems to improve the quality of services in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities, education, rehabilitation and mental health.

She designs and conducts research in community and clinical settings that aims to increase our understanding of how children with complex needs learn and how they change across developmental spans. She has a particular interest in the application of findings to neurodevelopmental conditions conducting research that addresses behavioral intervention, health care and accelerating learning by engaging in a fully integrated approach linking basic and clinical research. To achieve this, Dr. Healy investigates human contingency learning, avoidance and generalization in fear conditioning, assistive technology and instructional design in special education informed by behavior analytic research.

She is Associate Editor of four leading international journals contributing to peer review and research dissemination in the field of behavioral psychology. She has authored over 120 academic papers and book chapters published in both behavior-analytic and mainstream psychology journals.