Research
The following is a list of current/active projects that are ongoing in the Mount Sinai Hospital psychiatry department:
- Effect of a trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral intervention on adolescent mothers’ parenting and infant attachment: A randomized controlled trial.
- A sustainable community based intervention for treating traumatised youth in Nunavut.
- Addressing the Psychosocial Health Care of Patients and Families Obtaining Genetic Services: Identification, Disposition and Outcomes.
- Body Image and Psychosocial Functioning in Women with Breast Cancer: Can We Fix What We’ve Broken?
- Knowledge Translation Project: Evaluating differing training models of IPT-A with Community Practitioners.
- Critical Incident Stress Strategies - Emergency Medical Services.
- Chemotherapy and Mindfulness Relaxation: A Randomized Trial.
- Informed consent and Stimulant Medication: Adolescents understanding of information.
- Vulnerability and Resilience Among Sexual Minorities in Canada.
- Naturalistic cohort study examining moderators and mediators of treatment response to Interpersonal Psychotherapy for adult patients Major Depressive Disorder.
- Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
- Enhancing effective self-care in the emerging adult population with type 1 diabetes: Intensive Therapy self-management & Coping Skills training.
- Improving Doctor-Patient Communication: Coaching Communication Using Simulated Encounters
- Education and support to increase the resilience of health-care workers facing pandemic influenza: What is the minimum effective dose?
- A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Persons with HIV Disease.*
- HAART Adherence in HIV-Infection Project.*
- Art Therapy as a Psychotherapeutic Approach for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.
- Prevention of Postpartum Depression in Women at Risk: A Randomized Trial of Two Prenatal Psychosocial Interventions.*
- Psychological and occupational impact of the SARS outbreak on health-care workers.*
- Optimizing the Pathway to Health-care Utilization: A Consumer Decision Support Kiosk.*
- Identifying a Subtype of Ulcerative Colitis that is Sensitive to Stress.*
- The SiMPLE computerized system for self-monitoring of progress and longitudinal evaluation of therapy.
- The development of a sensitive scale for measuring changes in psychological wellness over time.
