Aileen Tierney Ph.D.
Clanwiliam Institute,
18 Clanwilliam Terrace
Dublin 2
Ireland
Email: aileenti@eircom.net
Phone: 00-353-868225688
Web: www.clanwilliam.ie
Aileen is CEO of Clanwilliam Institute and Course Director of M.Sc
Systemic Psychotherapy in Clanwilliam Institute , Dublin, Ireland .
Aileen is also joint co- ordinator of the Supervisor in Family therapy
training Course and provides supervision to social workers and
therapists. Aileen has worked in the area of systemic family therapy for
the last 20 years both as therapist , teacher and supervisor and brings
social constructionist ideas to her work both as teacher and therapist .
She also teaches social work counseling skills at postgraduate level in
University College Dublin and is External examiner in the University of
Glamorgen .
Aileen’s particular areas of interests relate to working with
marginalized groups and providing challenges to disabling and
marginalizing discourses . She has worked extensively with children in
therapy , with people who live with dis-ability labels, with couples,
families and complex systems and more recently with members of the Irish
Traveling community .
Aileen has also offered consultancy to dis-ability organizations for the
past 10 years and has advocated for cross sectional stakeholder
dialogue in the delivery and review of services. Aileen’s Ph.D. inquiry
utilized cross sectional stakeholder conversations to explore major
questions arising in relation to dis-ability services and particularly
those concerned with ‘labeling practices’. This study was an engagement
with multiple diverse dialogue partners. The dialogue participants came
from all areas of the field including, parents, service users i.e.
people who live with dis-ability labels, educationalists, therapists,
managers and voluntary organizations. Aileen is currently writing in the
area of constructs of dis-ability and emancipatory research
methodologies drawing from ideas which emerged in the context of her PhD
inquiry .