Andrew Gray, PhD

Dr. Gray is the Clinical Lead, Programming and Research, in the Secure Treatment Unit at the Brockville Mental Health Centre in Ontario and is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Département de Psychiatrie et d’addictologie at Université de Montréal. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor with the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and is the Secretary-Treasurer for the Criminal Justice Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. Dr. Gray obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical-Forensic Psychology from Simon Fraser University and completed his predoctoral Clinical Forensic Psychology Internship Program through British Columbia Mental Health & Substance Use Services. He received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Carleton University (2012) and a Doctoral Fellowship through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2012 – 2016), and has received certificates of academic excellence and student research awards from the Canadian Psychological Association. His clinical experience includes working with justice-involved adolescents, federally incarcerated men, provincially incarcerated men with severe mental illness, and individuals found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (NCRMD). Dr. Gray’s primary areas of research include violence risk assessment and assessing change in risk, forensic mental health, self-injurious and suicidal behaviour, intimate partner violence, firesetting, and the application of novel statistical techniques in examining predictive validity. Dr. Gray has served as an ad hoc reviewer for journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior and Sexual Abuse and has co-authored 16 articles, eight book chapters/encyclopedia entries, and one technical report. In addition, he is a certified trainer for the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA), has provided training on meta-analysis and assessing violence risk in youth, presented 10 conference talks, and has co-authored over 50 conference presentations/posters. Dr. Gray is also the lead author of the Change in Violence Risk Protocol (CVRP), a structured professional judgment-based framework for rating and formulating change in risk, and has published on the validity of the START:AV in predicting violent and self-injurious behaviour among adolescents undergoing residential treatment.