Research & Presentations
The Evidence Behind the Work
Our research program advances behavioral health practice through applied clinical research, outcomes evaluation, and the study of evidence-based implementation. We publish across a broad portfolio of psychosocial interventions, workforce development, and practice change.
Our research-related content is designed to support providers, organizations, and systems in using evidence-based and recovery-oriented approaches more effectively. In this section, you will find publications and educational resources that inform training, service delivery, and continuous improvement across behavioral health settings.
Selected publications
Advancing Evidence Into Practice
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A randomized pilot study of MOtiVation and Enhancement (MOVE) Training for negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
Translating evidence into practice: adapting TrialGPT for real-world clinical trial eligibility screening.
A continuous quality improvement process to create a sexual health curriculum for systems-involved youth.
Adaptation Process of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) in an Indian Context for Persons with Schizophrenia.
Towards a more equitable future: development, implementation, and evaluation of a novel e-course on racial disparities in pain management for medical students.
Abnormal Oculomotor Corollary Discharge Signaling as a Trans-diagnostic Mechanism of Psychosis.
Stronger tilt aftereffects in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorders but not bipolar disorder.
The UT Health Living Room: Expanding the Psychiatric Crisis Continuum of Care.
A Digital Single-Session Intervention Platform for Youth Mental Health: Cultural Adaptation, Evaluation, and Dissemination.
Associations between N-Acetylaspartate and white matter integrity in individuals with schizophrenia and unaffected relatives.
Development and validation of a fidelity instrument for Cognitive Adaptation Training.
Perspectives of Patients and Providers in Using Shared Decision Making in Psychiatry.
Suicidal Ideation Across Three Timepoints in Patients Discharged from Psychiatric Hospitalization.
Assessing Causal Pathways and Targets of Implementation Variability for EBP use (Project ACTIVE): a study protocol.
Assessment of adherence to oral antipsychotic medications: What has changed over the past decade?
Cognitive remediation plus standard treatment versus standard treatment alone for individuals at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: Results of the FOCUS randomised clinical trial.
Effectiveness of cognitive remediation in the ultra-high risk state for psychosis.
Integrative cognitive remediation for early psychosis: A 12-month follow-up.
Integrative cognitive remediation for early psychosis: Results from a randomized controlled trial.
Social and non-social measures of cognition for predicting self-reported and informant-reported functional outcomes in early psychosis.
X-Aptamer Technology Identifies C4A and ApoB in Blood as Potential Markers for Schizophrenia.
A pilot study of a family cognitive adaptation training guide for individuals with schizophrenia.
Second generation antipsychotic-induced mitochondrial alterations: Implications for increased risk of metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia.
The Use of Access Groups for Engagement in Community Mental Health Post Hospitalization.
Immune markers of social cognitive bias in schizophrenia.
Understanding Social Situations (USS): A proof-of-concept social-cognitive intervention targeting theory of mind and attributional bias in individuals with psychosis.
Following AACP Guidelines for Transitions in Care: The Transitional Care Clinic.
Social cognition and prefrontal hemodynamic responses during a working memory task in schizophrenia.
Social cognition in patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis: What is the relation to social skills and functioning?
Social cognition in schizophrenia: factor structure, clinical and functional correlates.
The welcome basket revisited: Testing the feasibility of a brief peer support intervention to facilitate transition from hospital to community.
What Patients With Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Hospital to Community Have to Say About Care and Shared Decision-Making.
A randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive behavior therapy, cognitive adaptation training, their combination and treatment as usual in chronic schizophrenia.
Is cognitive adaptation training (CAT) compensatory, restorative, or both?
The FOCUS trial: cognitive remediation plus standard treatment versus standard treatment for patients at ultra-high risk for psychosis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
The many faces of oxytocin: implications for psychiatry.
Theory-of-mind understanding and theory-of-mind use in unaffected first-degree relatives of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Theory-of-mind use in remitted schizophrenia patients: The role of inhibition and perspective-switching.
A randomized, controlled trial of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) for outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Improving functional outcomes for schizophrenia patients in the Netherlands using Cognitive Adaptation Training as a nursing intervention – A pilot study.
New instrument for measuring multiple domains of social cognition: construct validity of the Social Cognition Screening Questionnaire (Japanese version).
Social cognition and interaction training: preliminary results of an RCT in a community setting in Israel.
Testing a modification of cognitive adaptation training: streamlining the model for broader implementation.
A randomized trial comparing in person and electronic interventions for improving adherence to oral medications in schizophrenia.
Differential correlations between plasma oxytocin and social cognitive capacity and bias in schizophrenia.
Dissociation of understanding from applying others’ false beliefs in remitted schizophrenia: evidence from a computerized referential communication task.
Social cognition and interaction training for patients with stable schizophrenia in Chinese community settings.
An alternative to generating alternative interpretations in social cognitive therapy for psychosis.
Can medication management coordinators help improve continuity of care after psychiatric hospitalization?
Barriers to, and strategies for, starting a long acting injection clinic in a community mental health center.
Antipsychotic medication and social cue recognition in chronic schizophrenia.
Deconstructing processing speed deficits in schizophrenia: application of a parametric digit symbol coding test.
Transportability and feasibility of Social Cognition And Interaction Training (SCIT) in community settings.
Altered hippocampal morphology in unmedicated patients with major depressive illness.
Cognitive adaptation training for outpatients with schizophrenia.
Multimodal cognitive therapy: combining treatments that bypass cognitive deficits and deal with reasoning and appraisal biases.
Social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) for outpatients with schizophrenia: a preliminary study.
The short-term impact of generic versus individualized environmental supports on functional outcomes and target behaviors in schizophrenia.
Comparing the efficacy of interventions that use environmental supports to improve outcomes in patients with schizophrenia.
Social cognition in schizophrenia: an overview.
The use of individually tailored environmental supports to improve medication adherence and outcomes in schizophrenia.
Three-dimensional mapping of hippocampal anatomy in unmedicated and lithium-treated patients with bipolar disorder.
Best practices: The development of the Social Cognition and Interaction Training program for schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Prefrontal gray matter increases in healthy individuals after lithium treatment: a voxel-based morphometry study.
The reliability and validity of the Test of Adaptive Behavior in Schizophrenia (TABS).
Defining and assessing adherence to oral antipsychotics: a review of the literature.
Differential working memory impairment in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: effects of lifetime history of psychosis.
Do baseline client characteristics predict the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia?
The functional significance of social cognition in schizophrenia: a review.
Use of environmental supports among patients with schizophrenia.
A pilot study of social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) for schizophrenia.
The effectiveness of quetiapine versus conventional antipsychotics in improving cognitive and functional outcomes in standard treatment settings.
A randomized controlled trial of social cognition and interaction training for persons with first episode psychosis in Hong Kong.
A randomized single-blind pilot study of compensatory strategies in schizophrenia outpatients.
Can Social Functioning in Schizophrenia Be Improved through Targeted Social Cognitive Intervention?
Case Report: Successful Implementation of Integrative Cognitive Remediation for Early Psychosis.
Efficacy of social cognition and interaction training in outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: randomized controlled trial.
Engagement-focused care during transitions from inpatient and emergency psychiatric facilities.
Facilitating Recovery of Daily Functioning in People With a Severe Mental Illness Who Need Longer-Term Intensive Psychiatric Services: Results From a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on Cognitive Adaptation Training Delivered by Nurses
Observable Social Cognition–A Rating Scale: an interview-based assessment for schizophrenia.
Randomized controlled trial of the use of compensatory strategies to enhance adaptive functioning in outpatients with schizophrenia
Reflective Training: A Tool to Help Diverse Learner Groups Scale-Up Therapy Skills
View articleThe Feasibility and Efficacy of Social Cognition and Interaction Training for Outpatients With Schizophrenia in Japan: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.
Understanding social situations: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating a novel social cognitive training versus modified problem-solving training for people with psychosis.
Training Resources
Presentation Decks
Preview selected slides from our presentations. Full presentations are available upon request for invited speaking engagements.

Sustaining Independence
Behavioral Health and Aging in Texas

Behavioral Health
Serious Mental Illness and the Case for Behavioral Health Integration

MI - Core Skills
Motivational Interviewing

CBTP - Practitioner
