Stephanie Cassin
Associate Professor & Director of Clinical Trainin
Psychology
Ryerson University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Cassin is Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HEAL) Lab. In addition, she holds a faculty appointment at the University of Toronto (Department of Psychiatry) and is a member of the University Health Network Centre for Mental Health. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary, and completed an accredited internship at the University of British Columbia. Following graduation, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Mood and Anxiety Treatment and Research Program). Prior to joining the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University, she held staff clinical psychologist positions in the Mood and Anxiety Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and the Bariatric Surgery Program at Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Cassin’s clinical and research interests are in the area of disordered eating, obesity, and bariatric (weight loss) surgery. She is a Registered Clinical and Health Psychologist. Her current program of research focuses primarily on psychosocial predictors of bariatric surgery outcome, and psychosocial interventions with the potential to improve outcomes, including motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy. She also investigates health care innovations that increase treatment accessibility, such as telephone-based interventions. Dr. Cassin has taught a variety of courses on psychopathology at Ryerson University (Psychological Disorders, Clinical Psychology, Advanced Psychopathology Seminar, Eating Disorders), and provided clinical supervision to many graduate students completing practicum placements at the Psychology Training Clinic.
Research Interest
disordered eating; obesity; bariatric surgery; food addiction; body image; motivational interviewing; cognitive-behavioural therapy.
Publications
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Sockalingam, S., Wnuk, S., Kantarovich, K., Meaney, C., Okrainec, A., Hawa, R., & Cassin, S. E. (2015). Employment outcomes one year after bariatric surgery: The role of patient and psychosocial factors. Obesity Surgery, 25, 514 – 522.
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Cassin, S. E., Sockalingam, S., Du, C., Wnuk, S., Hawa, R., & Parikh, S. (2016). A pilot randomized controlled trial of telephone-based cognitive behavioural therapy for preoperative bariatric surgery patients. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 80, 17-22.
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David, L., Sockalingam, S., Wnuk, S., & Cassin, S. E. (2016). A pilot randomized controlled trial examining the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of adapted motivational interviewing for post-operative bariatric surgery patients. Eating Behaviors, 22, 87-92.
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Thiara, G., Yanofsky, R., Abdul-Kader, S., Santiago, V. A., Cassin, S. E., Okrainec, A., Jackson, T., Hawa, R., & Sockalingam, S. (2016). Toronto Bariatric Interprofessional Psychosocial Assessment Suitability Scale (BIPASS TM): Evaluating a new clinical assessment tool for bariatric surgery candidates. Psychosomatics, 57, 165-173.
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Sockalingam, S., Cassin, S. E., Wnuk, S., Du, C., Jackson, T., Hawa, R., & Parikh, S. (in press). A pilot study on telephone cognitive behavioural therapy for patients six months post-bariatric surgery, Obesity Surgery.
