Paul Grant

Paul Grant, Ph.D., is the Director of Research, Innovation, and Practice at the Beck Institute Center for Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy. He is the co-developer of CT-R, and has been given awards by The National Alliance on Mental Health and the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey. Grant is the lead author on the basic scientific studies supporting the theoretical framework of CT-R, as well as having developed and validated useful measures of motivation, apathy-interest, self-concept, and uncertainty tolerance. His ongoing studies investigate positive beliefs as the key mechanisms of change in CT-R, looking particularly at psychological and biological correlates of “best self” moments in people with serious mental health conditions. Grant is lead author on papers from a clinical trial validating CT-R and elucidating its mechanisms of change. With colleagues, he has created group, family, and milieu CT-R approaches. He is an investigator on funded studies to use group CT-R to produce improved supported employment outcomes and adding CT-R to acting training for ultra high-risk youth and first episode psychosis. Grant directs large projects implementing this evidence-based practice (CT-R) — in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Vermont, and Montana — across the continuity of care that involves all mental health disciplines. Training sites include long-term and short-term psychiatric hospitals (state civil and forensic facilities, extended-acute, acute, crisis center), programmatic residences (locked and unlocked, civil and forensic), community teams (fidelity and non-fidelity, mobile crisis, jail diversion), and individual plus group therapy providers (community and VA). He has developed innovative implementation tools, including a peer CT-R competency scale and service-wide fidelity scale, and is involved in measuring team-wide culture change as a mediator of successful CT-R outcomes. He is a coauthor of Guilford’s Schizophrenia: Cognitive Theory, Research and Therapy.