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Paula Ravitz

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ProfessorDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Toronto

Paula Ravitz

Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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1,177

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Research

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Latest papers

Prospective Economic Evaluation Alongside the Telephone-Based Nurse-Delivered Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression Trial.
American journal of perinatology · 2026
Does attachment change serve as a theory-specific mediator of depression reduction in interpersonal psychotherapy versus cognitive behavioral therapy?
Psychotherapy Research · 2026
Task-sharing and telemedicine delivery of psychotherapy to treat perinatal depression: a pragmatic, noninferiority randomized trial.
Nature medicine · 2025

All 21 publications

Latest funding

Improving Patient Mental Health With Psychotherapist Virtual Training: A Practice-Research Network Study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$814,726
Comparing videoconference-based care to in-person care in Canadian community psychotherapy practice: A PPRNet randomized controlled trial.
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Therapeutic Alliance Tensions and Repair in Psychotherapy Practices: A Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet) Proposal
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$321,300

All 4 grants and awards

21 publications.

Prospective Economic Evaluation Alongside the Telephone-Based Nurse-Delivered Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression Trial.

Hay S, Dennis CL, Ravitz P, Grigoriadis S, Maddalone E, Dukhovny D, Zupancic J

American journal of perinatology2026

DOI: 10.1055/a-2708-5194 PMID: 41067235

Does attachment change serve as a theory-specific mediator of depression reduction in interpersonal psychotherapy versus cognitive behavioral therapy?

Maria Abapolnikova, Alice E. Coyne, Lillian Glushka, Crystal J. Liu, Michael J. Constantino, Leslie R. Atkinson, R Mi chael Bagby, Paula Ravitz, Carolina McBride

Psychotherapy Research2026

DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2026.2656698 PMID: 41990368

Task-sharing and telemedicine delivery of psychotherapy to treat perinatal depression: a pragmatic, noninferiority randomized trial.

Singla DR, Silver RK, Vigod SN, Schoueri-Mychasiw N, Kim JJ, La Porte LM, Ravitz P, Schiller CE, Lawson AS, Kiss A, Hollon SD, Dennis CL, Berenbaum TS, Krohn HA, Gibori JE, Charlebois J, Clark DM, Dalfen AK, Davis W, Gaynes BN, Leszcz M, Katz SR, Murphy KE, Naslund JA, Reyes-Rodríguez ML, Stuebe AM, Zlobin C, Mulsant BH, Patel V, Meltzer-Brody S

Nature medicine202537 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03482-w PMID: 40033113

Clinical Supervision Models for Non-specialist Providers Delivering Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Analysis.

Andrejek N, Ravitz P, Mikelsteins K, La Porte L, Kim JJ, Schiller CE, Reyes-Rodríguez ML, Barker LC, Dennis CL, Silver RK, Meltzer-Brody S, Singla DR

Administration and policy in mental health20255 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s10488-025-01450-1 PMID: 40459806

Psychotherapies at a Glance: Consensus Guideline–Recommended Psychotherapies for Adults With Psychiatric Disorders

Paula Ravitz, Luis E. Flores, Danielle M. Novick, Priya Watson, Holly A. Swartz

American Journal of Psychotherapy20247 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230004 PMID: 38487817

Novel Web-Based Drop-In Mindfulness Sessions (Pause-4-Providers) to Enhance Well-Being Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Descriptive and Qualitative Study.

Elliott M, Khallouf C, Hirsch J, de Camps Meschino D, Zamir O, Ravitz P

JMIR formative research2024Senior author

DOI: 10.2196/43875 PMID: 38180869

Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: The role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes.

Singla DR, Puerto Nino AK, Zibaman M, Andrejek N, Hossain S, Cohen M, Dalfen A, Dennis CL, Kim JJ, La Porte L, Meltzer-Brody S, Naslund JA, Patel V, Ravitz P, Silver RK, Schiller CE, Vigod SN, Schoueri-Mychasiw N

General hospital psychiatry202325 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.04.002 PMID: 37167828

Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment.

Rybak YE, Lai KSP, Ramasubbu R, Vila-Rodriguez F, Blumberger DM, Chan P, Delva N, Giacobbe P, Gosselin C, Kennedy SH, Iskandar H, McInerney S, Ravitz P, Sharma V, Zaretsky A, Burhan AM

Depression and anxiety202198 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/da.23135 PMID: 33528865

Adapting behavioral activation for perinatal depression and anxiety in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice

Daisy Radha Singla, Sabrina Hossain, Paula Ravitz, Crystal Edler Schiller, Nicole Andrejek, Jo Kim, Laura La Porte, Samantha E Meltzer-Brody, Richard Karl Silver, Simone Natalie Vigod, James W. Jung, Sona Dimidjian

Journal of Affective Disorders202116 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.006 PMID: 34875282

Telephone-based nurse-delivered interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression: nationwide randomised controlled trial.

Dennis CL, Grigoriadis S, Zupancic J, Kiss A, Ravitz P

The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2020123 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2019.275 PMID: 32029010

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Paula Ravitz

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Prospective Economic Evaluation Alongside the Telephone-Based Nurse-Delivered Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression Trial.

Does attachment change serve as a theory-specific mediator of depression reduction in interpersonal psychotherapy versus cognitive behavioral therapy?

Task-sharing and telemedicine delivery of psychotherapy to treat perinatal depression: a pragmatic, noninferiority randomized trial.

Clinical Supervision Models for Non-specialist Providers Delivering Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Analysis.

Psychotherapies at a Glance: Consensus Guideline–Recommended Psychotherapies for Adults With Psychiatric Disorders

Novel Web-Based Drop-In Mindfulness Sessions (Pause-4-Providers) to Enhance Well-Being Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Descriptive and Qualitative Study.

Scaling up quality-assured psychotherapy: The role of therapist competence on perinatal depression and anxiety outcomes.

Treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Canadian expert consensus on definition and assessment.

Adapting behavioral activation for perinatal depression and anxiety in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice

Telephone-based nurse-delivered interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression: nationwide randomised controlled trial.

Improving Patient Mental Health With Psychotherapist Virtual Training: A Practice-Research Network Study

Comparing videoconference-based care to in-person care in Canadian community psychotherapy practice: A PPRNet randomized controlled trial.

Therapeutic Alliance Tensions and Repair in Psychotherapy Practices: A Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet) Proposal

Scanning the Way Ahead: Developing a Shared Vision of Practice-Based Psychotherapy Research in Canada

Frequent collaborators

Cindy-Lee Dennis

Daisy Singla

Carolina McBride

Molyn Leszcz

Robert Maunder

Simone Vigod

Sophie Grigoriadis

Mark Fefergrad

Ari Zaretsky

Robert Bagby

Diane Philipp

Clare Pain

Jan Malat

Sian Rawkins

Shane McInerney

Chetana Kulkarni

Peter Giacobbe

Amer Burhan

Lucy Barker

Nancy McNaughton

Verinder Sharma

Luis Flores

Richard Koestner

David Zuroff

Debbie Moskowitz

Nicholas Delva

Leslie Atkinson

Orit Zamir