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Alissa Pencer
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Latest papers
Lifetime Adversity Among Individuals With Early Phase Psychosis and Comorbid Substance Misuse
Early Intervention in Psychiatry · 2026
The Promoting Healthy Sleep E-Learning Professional Development Program for Health Care Providers: Mixed Methods Usability Study.
JMIR formative research · 2026
The role of referral pathway to early intervention services for psychosis on 2-year inpatient and emergency service use
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2024
Latest funding
- $105,000
Accessible and Free Psychotherapy for those Experiencing Housing Instability
CIHR · 2022 · Supervisor
- $97,288
Piloting of an intervention to reduce problematic alcohol use in Early Phase Psychosis patients
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $201,164
Understanding reward motivation and expectancy in early phase psychosis smokers: a neuroimaging and genetic approach
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
9 publications.
Lifetime Adversity Among Individuals With Early Phase Psychosis and Comorbid Substance Misuse
Victoria C. Patterson, Bradley A. J. Gillis, Julia Sawers, Alissa H. Pencer, Maria Simmons, Rachel B. Church, G. Camelia Adams, Samantha S. Carley, Stephen Adams, Philip G. Tibbo
The Promoting Healthy Sleep E-Learning Professional Development Program for Health Care Providers: Mixed Methods Usability Study.
Ilie A, Keys E, Pencer A, Weiss S, Corkum P
The role of referral pathway to early intervention services for psychosis on 2-year inpatient and emergency service use
Brannon Senger, Alissa H. Pencer, Candice E. Crocker, Patryk Simon, Bryanne Taylor, Philip G. Tibbo
Referral pathways to early intervention services for psychosis and their influence on perceptions of care: An interpretive phenomenological analysis
Brannon Senger, Quinn MacDonald, Alissa H. Pencer, Candice E. Crocker, Jean R. Hughes, Philip G. Tibbo
Outcomes of an adapted prolonged exposure psychotherapy for people with early phase psychosis, substance misuse, and a history of adversity: the PE + trial.
Patterson VC, Tibbo PG, Stewart SH, Town J, Crocker CE, Ursuliak Z, Lee S, Morrison J, Abidi S, Dempster K, Alexiadis M, Henderson N, Pencer A
An Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Anxiety and Depression (Tranquility): Adaptation Co-design and Fidelity Evaluation Study.
Patterson VC, Rossi MA, Pencer A, Wozney L
A multiple baseline trial of adapted prolonged exposure psychotherapy for individuals with early phase psychosis, comorbid substance misuse, and a history of adversity: A study protocol.
Patterson VC, Tibbo PG, Stewart SH, Town J, Crocker CE, Ursuliak Z, Lee S, Morrison J, Abidi S, Dempster K, Alexiadis M, Henderson N, Pencer A
Youth Experience Tracker Instrument: A self-report measure of developmental antecedents to severe mental illness.
Patterson VC, Pencer A, Pavlova B, Awadia A, MacKenzie LE, Zwicker A, Drobinin V, Howes Vallis E, Uher R
Reasons for using substances in adolescents with and without psychosis
Alissa H. Pencer, Jean Addington
Accessible and Free Psychotherapy for those Experiencing Housing Instability
Principal investigators: Senger, Brannon
Keywords: Community Mental Health; Homelessness/Housing Instability; Implementation Science; Marginalized Populations; Mental Health And Addictions; Mixed-Methods; Patient Oriented Research; Program Evaluation
Piloting of an intervention to reduce problematic alcohol use in Early Phase Psychosis patients
Principal investigators: Tibbo, Philip G
Keywords: Vulnerable Population; Youth
Understanding reward motivation and expectancy in early phase psychosis smokers: a neuroimaging and genetic approach
Principal investigators: Good, Kimberley P
Keywords: Expectancy; Motivation; Neuroimaging; Psychosis; Smoking; Tobacco Addictions
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Rudolf Uher and Barbara Pavlova: 57 shared papers
- Penny Corkum and Shelly Weiss: 28 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Philip Tibbo: 27 shared papers
- Philip Tibbo and Kara Dempster: 10 shared papers
- Penny Corkum and Elizabeth Keys: 7 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Penny Corkum: 5 shared papers
- Philip Tibbo and Alissa Pencer: 5 shared papers
- Rudolf Uher and Lori Wozney: 3 shared papers
- Elizabeth Keys and Shelly Weiss: 3 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Lori Wozney: 2 shared papers
- Philip Tibbo and Jean Addington: 2 shared papers
- Kara Dempster and Alissa Pencer: 2 shared papers
- Rudolf Uher and Sherry Stewart: 1 shared paper
- Rudolf Uher and Jean Addington: 1 shared paper
- Rudolf Uher and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Rudolf Uher and C. Adams: 1 shared paper
- Sherry Stewart and Elizabeth Keys: 1 shared paper
- Sherry Stewart and Kara Dempster: 1 shared paper
- Sherry Stewart and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Penny Corkum and Lori Wozney: 1 shared paper
- Penny Corkum and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Philip Tibbo and C. Adams: 1 shared paper
- Lori Wozney and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Elizabeth Keys and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Barbara Pavlova and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Shelly Weiss and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Jean Addington and Alissa Pencer: 1 shared paper
- Alissa Pencer and C. Adams: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
- School of Nursing
- Cumming School of Medicine
- Department of Paediatrics
- Other
Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Philip Tibbo
Department of Psychiatry
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Kara Dempster
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2024
C. Adams
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Penny Corkum
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Lori Wozney
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Elizabeth Keys
School of Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Barbara Pavlova
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Shelly Weiss
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Rudolf Uher
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Jean Addington
Cumming School of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2008
Sherry Stewart
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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