Geneviève Sauvé’s research focus on mental health in youth and adults, occupational functioning, career counseling and artificial intelligence. She is the developer of the ‘Minds@Work’ program, a career counseling intervention aimed at improving job maintenance for people living with mental illness. She also specializes in literature reviews and meta-analyses investigating the efficacy of psychosocial interventions.

Geneviève Sauvé is an assistant professor in the department of education and pedagogy at the Université du Québec À Montréal (UQÀM) and a researcher at the Douglas Research Center. She holds a PhD in psychiatry from McGill University (2018) and a PsyD in clinical psychology from UQÀM (2021). She is a member of the Ordre des Psychologues du Québec (OPQ) and will soon become a member of the Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec (OCCOQ). Her clinical work has involved cognitive remediation therapy and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy with various populations, including psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, Tourette syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Her research interests currently focus on mental health and occupational functioning in various populations.

• Stéphanie El Asmar, coordination de recherche
• Jiaxuan Deng, baccalauréat psychologie, McGill
• Lisa Sarraf, maîtrise psychologie, Carleton University
• Adèle Hotte-Meunier, baccalauréat psychologie, McGill
• Félicia Bernier, baccalauréat développement de carrière, UQAM
• Emilie Gagliano, baccalauréat psychologie, Concordia
• Alan Bougeard, B. Sc. psychologie, UdeM
• Marie-Andrée Binet, maîtrise counseling de carrière, UQAM
• Chloé Voyer, B.Sc. psychology, McGill
• Karolane Groulx, baccalauréat développement de carrière, UQAM

Key publications

1. Raucher-Chéné, D., Thibaudeau, É., Sauvé, G., Lavigne, K. M. et Lepage, M. (en révision). Understanding others as a mediator between verbal memory and negative symptoms in schizophrenia-spectrum disorder.

2. Lavigne K. M., Sauvé, G., Raucher-Chéné, D., Guimond, S., Lecomte, T., Bowie, C., Menon, M., Lal, S., Bodnar, M. et Lepage, M. (en révision). Remote cognitive assessment in psychiatry : A systematic scoping review.

3. Stamate, A., Sauvé, G. et Denis, P. (en révision). The rise of the machines and how they impact workers’ psychological health – An empirical study.

4. Sauvé, G., Buck, G., Lepage, M. et Corbière, M. (2021). Minds@Work – A new manualized group psychosocial intervention to improve job tenure in psychosis. Journal of Occuational Rehabilitation, epub July 30, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-021-09995-2

5. Sauvé, G., Lavigne, K.M., Pochiet, G., Brodeur, M.B. et Lepage, M. (2020). Efficacy of psychological interventions targeting cognitive biases in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 78, 101854. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101854

6. Sauvé, G., Kline, R.B., Shah, J.L., Joober, R., Malla, A. et Lepage, M. (2019). Cognitive capacity similarly predicts insight into symptoms in first- and multiple-episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 206, 236-243. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.11.013

7. Sauvé, G., Lepage, M. et Corbière, M. (2019). Impacts de la combinaison de programmes de soutien à l’emploi et de remédiation cognitive sur le maintien en emploi de personnes souffrant de schizophrénie : une méta-analyse. Annales Médico-Psychologiques. 177(6), 534-543. doi : 10.1016/j.amp.2018.01.015

8. Penney, D., Sauvé, G., Joober, R., Malla, K. et Lepage, M. (2019). Establishing clinical cutoff values for the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 43(2), 324-334. doi: 10.1007/s10608-018-9963-0

9. Sauvé, G., Brodeur, M., Shah, J. et Lepage, M. (2019). The prevalence of negative symptoms across the stages of the psychosis continuum. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 27(1), 15-32. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000184

10. Sauvé, G., Malla, A., Joober, R., Brodeur, M. et Lepage, M. (2018). Comparing cognitive clusters across first- and multiple-episode of psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 269, 707-718. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.08.119

11. Corbière, M., Bergeron, G., Negrini, A., Coutu, M.-F., Samson, E., Sauvé, G., et Lecomte, T. (2018). Employee perceptions about factors influencing their return to work after a sick-leave due to depression. Journal of Rehabilitation. 84(3), 3-13

12. Sauvé, G., Bastien, M.-F., Roy-Gelencser, C., et El-Baalbaki, G. (2018). L-carnosine as an enhancer to computerized cognitive behaviour thrapy in Japanese workers, an unjustified claim. Biopsychosocial medicine. 12(1), 1-5. doi: 10.1186/s13030-018-0130-3

13. Sauvé, G., Morand-Beaulieu, S., O’Connor, K.P., Blanchet, P.J. et Lavoie, M.E. (2017). P300 source localization contrasts in body-focused repetitive behaviors and tic disorders. Brain Sciences. 7(76), 1-23. doi: 10.3390/brainsci7070076

14. Sauvé, G., Harmand, M., Vanni, L. et Brodeur, M.B. (2017). The probability of object-scene co-occurence influences object identification processes. Experimental Brain Research. 235(7), 2167-2179. doi: 10.1007/s00221-017-4955-y

15. Morand-Beaulieu, S., O’Connor, K.P., Richard, M., Sauvé, G., Leclerc, J.B., Blanchet, P.J. et Lavoie, M.E. (2016). The impact of a cognitive-behavioral therapy on event-related potentials in patients with tic disorders or body-focused repetitive behaviors. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 7(81), 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00081

16. Corbière, M., Samson, E., Negrini, A., St-Arnaud, L., Durand, M.-J., Coutu, M.-F., Sauvé, G., et Lecomte, T. (2016). Factors perceived by employees regarding their sick leave due to depression. Disability and Rehabilitation. 38(6), 511-519. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2015.1046564

17. Morand-Beaulieu, S., O’Connor, K.P., Sauvé, G., Blanchet, P.J. et Lavoie, M.E. (2015) Cognitive-behavioral therapy induces sensorimotor and specific electrocortical changes in chronic tic and Tourette’s disorder. Neuropsychologia. 79, 310-321. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.024

18. Corbière, M., Renard, M., St-Arnaud, L., Coutu, M.-F., Negrini, A., Sauvé, G., et Lecomte, T. (2015). Union perceptions of factors related to the return to work of employees with depression. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 25(2), 335-47. doi: 10.1007/s10926-014-9542-5