Current Funding

Functional Improvement and Recurrence Risk after First Episode Depression:

Independent and Interactive Roles of Premorbid Factors, Cognition, Reward, and Stress

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Funded by Canadian Institutes for Health Research through 2025.

This project will start data collection after lifting of COVID restrictions and includes collaborations with colleagues in psychiatry as well as Drs. Harkness and Hollenstein in the Psychology Department.

We have two major aims:

  1. Examine how cognition, effort-based decision making, and reward processing predict the rate and degree of everyday functional recovery following remission from a first episode of depression.

  2. Identify predictors of a single-episode versus a recurrent pattern of depression.

Effectiveness of a Self-Stigma Therapy for Reducing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in Early Psychosis.

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Funded by Mental Health Research Canada through 2023.

This project is an examination of our treatment, BOOST, as an online, multi-site study.

We have two major aims:

  1. Examine the ability for BOOST to reduce factors related to suicidal thoughts and behaviours (hopelessness, depressed mood, self-stigma) as well as those behaviours directly

  2. Learn from participants about the practicality, acceptability, and challenges with online treatment

Implementation of Action-Based Cognitive Remediation

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Funded by Early Psychosis in Ontario Network and the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society.

We have three major aims:

  1. How do clinicians retain what is learned after being trained in ABCR?

  2. What modifications are made in clinical settings as they adapt the structure and procedures of ABCR?

  3. What are the factors that require changes to ABCR procedures in diverse clinical environments?