News & Upcoming Events
We are thrilled to announce that several of our talented lab students have successfully matched with prestigious externship sites. Please join us in congratulating Ronit, Alexis, Adelaide and Shibani on their well-deserved success! We are incredibly proud of their accomplishments!
Ronit Shvarzman matched with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Psychosis Risk Program
Alexis Aberman matched with the New York-Presbyterian-Westchester Behavioral Health Center Track 6: Inpatient DBT on the Self-Injurious Behavior Unit
Adelaide Jones matched with the Brooklyn College Counseling Center
Shibani Datta matched with the Montefiore - Adult Literacy Program
Interested in learning more about suicide prevention and resiliency? Join us on Thursday, 4/4/2024 for a panel discussion, light dinner, and networking! This event is co-sponsored by the Yeshiva University Office of Alumni Affairs, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and the Yeshiva University Counseling Center and will feature Dr. Bloch-Elkouby and several other experts in suicide prevention.
Congratulations to our amazing Research Assistant, Lucy Walsh, on getting matched for a prestigious internship at Mount Sinai Morningside in New York! We know that you will be an outstanding intern and we wish you great success!
Congratulations, Inna, on the acceptance of your abstract “Hidden Barriers: Exploring Self-Disgust and Disgust with Others in Individuals with Concealed vs. Disclosed Past-Month Suicidal Ideation” for poster presentation at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting in New York, May 4 - 8.
Dr. Bloch-Elkouby will lead a structured discussion about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Dr. Aafjes-van Doorn at the upcoming SPR International Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, June 26 – 29, 2024.
Dr. Bloch-Elkouby will present preliminary findings about the therapeutic alliance and clinical judgment in therapeutic encounters with AI-powered virtual patients.
Congratulations, Alexis, on the acceptance of your abstract on the role of self-compassion as a change mechanism in suicide-specific psychotherapies for poster presentation at the SPR International Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Canada, June 26 – 29, 2024.
Dr. Bloch-Elkouby will chair a symposium “Using cutting edge AI research to enhance clinical training and suicide prevention” at the upcoming ADAA 2024 conference in Boston on April 11 - 14, 2024.
Dr. Bloch-Elkouby was awarded the Bergin and Garfield Emerging Scholar Award by Society for Psychotherapy Research.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention awarded $1.5M FOCUS grant for the project “Effectivness of Diagnostic vs. Symptom-Only Suicide Crisis Syndrome Assessment (SCS-A) for post-discharge suicide prevention (Co-investigator: Dr. Bloch-Elkouby).