Overview
Dr. Antoine Bailliard is a Professor of Occupational Therapy. He earned an M.S. in Occupational Therapy and a PhD in Occupational Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on exploring how sensorimotor patterns affect community integration and participation in meaningful activities of daily living. His community-engaged scholarship focuses on improving the delivery of community-based services for adults with serious mental illness. Dr. Bailliard uses participatory methods to partner with people with lived experience with mental illness to design and implement research activities and in the development of tools and programs that improve the health, wellbeing, participation, and community integration of persons with serious mental illness. Dr. Bailliard’s clinical experience spans from working in acute inpatient mental health, chronic inpatient mental health, and community-based mental health settings. Since 2018, Dr. Bailliard has been Co-Principal Investigator of two 5-year $2.5 million federal grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to design innovative treatment models and an assertive outreach team to meet the needs of adults with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Dr. Bailliard is also a consultant for the Public Mental Health Partnership between the L.A. County Department of Mental Health and UCLA. He is also a consultant and trainer for the Institute for Best Practices at the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. In 2025, Dr. Bailliard was awarded the American Occupational Therapy's Roster of Fellows award.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Social and Environmental Determinants of Occupation: Population-Level Analysis of Adolescent Mental Health.
Journal Article OTJR (Thorofare N J) · April 24, 2025 Adolescents are experiencing unprecedented mental health challenges in the United States. This study investigated the relationships between social and environmental determinants of occupation (SEDO) and adolescent mental health at the population level. We ... Full text Link to item CitePositive Experiences of Psychosis: A Review
Journal Article Occupational Therapy in Mental Health · January 1, 2025 Experiences of psychosis, including auditory and visual hallucinations, are pathologized and stigmatized within healthcare settings and societies at large (particularly Anglo-European cultures). Yet, positive experiences of psychosis have been documented i ... Full text CiteEmbodied reasoning in professional practice
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Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2023 - 2025Moser DHHS Contract
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