Campion Hall Room 305B
Telephone: 617-552-4245
Email: margaret.haney@bc.edu
Issues of Life Span Development
Psychology of Child Trauma
Child maltreatment, trauma and exposure to violence; child and adolescent development and psychopathology; intervention and advocacy with children and families (particularly typically underserved populations); family and community systems (including consultation and systems interventions); forensic evaluations, consultation, and advocacy (including juvenile delinquency, child protection, sexual abuse, and custody/visitation issues)
Dr. Haney is not currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Penny Haney is a licensed psychologist with a background in clinical and forensic psychology. Over the past 25 years, she has worked as a clinician, consultant, professor, trainer, and court expert. Dr. Haney’s work focuses on understanding and evaluating the complex individual, systemic, and ecological challenges facing children and families who have experienced adverse circumstances, and on intervening and advocating for pathways to well-being. She approaches her work through a social justice lens.
As Professor of the Practice in counseling psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Dr. Haney brings her expertise and experience to her teaching and advising of graduate students earning counseling and other psychology and related degrees. Dr. Haney coordinates the Certificates in Child and Family Mental Health and Well-Being and Traumatic Stress Studies and Intervention, co-coordinates a clinical speaker series each semester, and serves as a core faculty member in the master’s in mental health counseling program. Dr. Haney has been with the Lynch School since 2009.
In addition to her role at mdý College, Dr. Haney maintains a clinical practice in which she conducts clinical and forensic evaluations and consultations; provides expert consultation and testimony to courts; develops and delivers professional trainings for attorneys, mental health clinicians, schools, and other agencies; and offers supervision and consultation to mental health clinicians. Dr. Haney’s clinical practice has also included evaluation, treatment, and consultation to children, families, and professionals in school, court, outpatient clinic, and hospital settings. She is routinely sought out as a trainer and expert witness in her areas of expertise, and is a Certified Juvenile Court Clinician (Level II) in Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of publications, including in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.
(see CV for full list of trainings)