Tania Lecomte Author

Tania Lecomte, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and a registered clinical psychologist. Dr. Lecomte has helped develop and validate assessment tools as well as several group interventions for individuals with severe mental illness. Dr. Lecomte has received several national research grants and awards over the years and has published more than 80 articles and co-edited two books on psychiatric rehabilitation (in French). Claude Leclerc, RN, PhD, is a mental health nurse specialist, Professor of mental health nursing at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and Invited Professor at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests are mostly centered around mental state evaluation, design and validation of rehabilitation intervention oriented toward recovery for individuals presenting a first episode of psychosis, and cognitive behavioural techniques for psychosis. Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation and Vice Dean of Psychology and Systems Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London. She has been involved in research on rehabilitation for many years, both in the development of services and the evaluation of innovative psychological treatments. She is also the director of the Centre for Recovery in Severe Psychosis (CRiSP).