Tania Lecomte, Ph.D., is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Montreal, Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of the Montreal Mental Health Institute (IUSMM) and CRIPCAS, founder of the Canadian Network of Researchers in Schizophrenia, and a Founding Member of the North American Network for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis. Her current work focuses on the recovery of people with mental disabilities. She is interested, for example, in assessing needs, self-esteem and social functioning, in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp), first episodes of schizophrenia, and the professional reintegration of people with a severe mental disorder, as well as comorbid disorders (psychosis and substance abuse or social anxiety). Dr. Lecomte has directed and developed group workbooks for people with a severe mental disorder (such as: I am super-on self-esteem, CBT for psychosis, WITH-CBT for parents of people with psychosis and CBT for supported employment). She has benefited from several research grants at the national level (Canada) and several peer-reviewed articles (more than 120) have resulted from her work. She also co-edited the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Handbook (in French), published in 2004, and updated in 2012 by Les Presses de l'Université du Québec and she wrote the book Group CBT for psychosis published by Oxford Press in 2016 and translated into French at PUQ in 2018. She is also a clinical psychologist (private office) and expert trainer in psychological interventions with people with a severe mental disorder and their families.