Experts in: Severe mental illness
HODGINS, Sheilagh
Professeure associée, Professeure honoraire
- Delinquency
- Genes
- Behavioral Problems
- Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth
- Mental Health and Society
- Schizophrenia
- Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms
- Severe mental illness
- Social and Cultural Psychiatry
- Socio-emotional development
- Social neuroscience
- Psychopathology
- Emotions
- Affect regulation
- Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.)
- Cognitive Development in Children
- Crime
- Preventing psychosocial problems
LECOMTE, Tania
Professeure titulaire
- Psychopathology
- Assessment
- Psychosis
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Severe mental illness
- Schizophrenia
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy
- Depression
- Mental health
- Réadaptation
- Psychological well-being in the workplace
- Couple and sexuality
My research projects focus on improving treatment for people with severe mental illness, either by creating new treatments, evaluating needs or training mental health workers. For instance, I have collaborated on creating and validating group interventions in cognitive behaviour therapy to improve self-esteem or the symptoms of people suffering from psychoses. My current research bears mainly on first-episode patients, but I am also interested in patients with longer clinical histories.
My current research looks at the impact of cognitive behaviour therapy on the symptoms and functioning of people after a first psychotic episode (CIHR grant); profiles of first episodes who follow or ignore treatment recommendations for their psychosis (MSFHR grant, Norma Calder); the impact of motivational interviews on treatment persistence among first-episode patients; care and clinical profiles, and the creation of group treatment, for people suffering from psychoses as a result of methamphetamine abuse (CIHR grant); the impact of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis on an incarcerated psychiatric clientele; support for employment (CIHR grant) and education for people with severe mental illness; cognitive remediation related to social functioning among people with psychoses and cognitive deficits. I am also interested in the stigmatization of psychosis and knowledge transfer in the community.