Publications

Articles for Patients, Families, and Communities

• Moynihan, L. How to talk about death with a child or teen who’s near the end of life. HopeHealth Blog, October 2023. https://www.hopehealthco.org/blog/how-to-talk-about-death-with-a-child-or-teen-whos-near-the-end-of-life/.

• Moynihan, L. How do I tell my other children about their sibling’s cancer diagnosis?  Expectations for Pediatric Cancer Treatment Website, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 2024.

• Moynihan, L. Balancing taking care of my child with cancer with being there for my other children?  Expectations for Pediatric Cancer Treatment Website, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 2024.

• Moynihan, L. Making treatment sustainable for caregivers. Expectations for Pediatric Cancer Treatment Website, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 2024.

• Moynihan, L. Supporting a child through a cancer diagnosis. Expectations for Pediatric Cancer Treatment Website, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 2024.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Bedoya, S., Gordon, M., Zabokrtsky, K., Kasper, K., Frediani, J., Ruble, K., Ciampa, D., Moynihan, L., Pao, M., & Wiener, L. (2025). Advancing Advance Care Planning: Evaluating a Revised Version of Voicing My CHOiCES. Journal of palliative medicine, 28(1), 92-96.

• Tambling, R. R., Hynes, K. C., Carolan, K., Charles, D., & Moynihan, L. (2024). The long-COVID well-being scale (LCOVID-WBS): Development of a nascent measure of long-COVID symptoms and impacts. Journal of Affective Disorders.

• Moynihan, L. (2023). The Use of Psychodynamic Modalities in the Provision of Trauma-Informed End of Life Care. Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, 1-7.

• MacDonell-Yilmaz, R. E., Sampino, E. V., Moynihan, L., Chang, W. I., & Sprinz, P. G. (2023). Prolonged Survival Using Outpatient Palliative Chemotherapy in Two Children with Refractory Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 45(6), e764-e767.

• Waller, N., Moynihan, L., & Cordova, D. (2014). Preventing substance abuse and HIV among adolescents in a primary care setting. J Subst Abus Alcohol, 2(1), 1006.

• Clark, M. A., Ott, M., Rogers, M. L., Politi, M. C., Miller, S. C., Moynihan, L., … & Dizon, D. (2017). Advance care planning as a shared endeavor: completion of ACP documents in a multidisciplinary cancer program. Psycho‐Oncology, 26(1), 67-73.

Under Review

• Moynihan, L. and MacDonell-Yilmaz, R. (Submitted). Plotting the Way: A Tool for Capturing Adolescent and Young Adult Patients’ Priorities During Shared Decision-Making. Submitted to Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care.

• MacDonell-Yilmaz, R. & Moynihan, L. (Under review). A Narrative Structure for Delivering Bad News. Submitted to Medical Teacher.   

• Carolan, K., Charles, D., Moynihan, L., & Parekh, R. (Under review). Identifying interventions and coping strategies to address the psychosocial repercussions of long-COVID: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis (QIMS). Submitted to Social Science & Medicine.

In Preparation

• Thompson, A., Karst, J., Moynihan, L., & Wiener, L. (Book chapter; In Preparation). Handbook of Psychotherapy in Cancer Care 2nd ed: Psychotherapy with Pediatric and Adolescent Cancer Patients.

• Moynihan, L. (In preparation). Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults Receiving Palliative Care: A Case Series.

• Moynihan, L. & Mortley, C. (In preparation). Unequal Access to Care: The Benefits of Devolution as a Small Step Forward to Address the Individual Cost of Being Uninsured in the United States.