Bloch-Elkouby Lab for Suicide Prevention and Psychotherapy Research

Research

* indicates joint first authorship; ____ indicates contribution by students in the lab

2025

Lawrence, O. C., Rogers, M. L., Wolfe, A., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Peterkin, D., Richards, J., Bafna, A., & Galynker, I. (2025). Examining mental health clinicians’ perspectives on the use of virtual patient interactions as a tool for clinical training. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-024-00470-2

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Jones, A., Shvarzman, R., Bhise, A., Kothari, M., & Goncearenco, I. (2025). Suicide, Theories of. In D. G. Friedman-Wheeler & A. Wenzel (Eds.) Sage Encyclopedia of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. (In Press)

Goncearenco, I., Bhise, A., Tortora, J., Shi, R., & Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2025). Suicide, Preparatory Behaviors. In D. G. Friedman-Wheeler & A. Wenzel (Eds.) Sage Encyclopedia of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. (In Press)

2024

Boritz, T., Bloch-Elkouby, S., DiBartolomeo, A., & Aberman, A. Alliance Rupture and Repair Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder. (2024) In N. Kazantzis (Ed.) Alliance Rupture Repair in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Springer Nature. (In Press)

Galynker, I., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Cohen, L. (2024). Suicide crisis syndrome: a specific diagnosis to aid suicide prevention. World Psychiatry 23 (3), 362-363. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21229

* Bloch-Elkouby, S., Rogers, M., Goncearenco, I., Yanez, N., Nemeroff, C., Chennapragada, L., Cohen, L., & Galynker, I. (2024). The Narrative Crisis Model of Suicide: A Review of Empirical Evidence for an Innovative Dynamic Model of Suicide and a comparison with other theoretical frameworks. Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry (In Press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmip.2024.100131

Rogers, M., * Bloch-Elkouby, S., Goncearenco I., Cohen, L., Nemeroff, C., & Galynker, I. (2024). The Narrative Crisis Model of Suicide as a Framework for Suicide Prevention. Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry (In Press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmip.2024.100130

De Luca, G. P., Parghi, N., El Hayek, R., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Peterkin, D., Wolfe, A. & Galynker, I. (2024). Machine learning approach for the development of a crucial tool in suicide prevention: The Suicide Crisis Inventory-2 (SCI-2) Short Form. PLoS one, 19(5), e0299048. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299048

Yao, H., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O., Sarli, G., … & Lok, B. (2024). The impact of scaffolded and non-scaffolded suicidal virtual human interaction training on clinician emotional self-awareness, empathic communication, and clinical efficacy. BMC medical education, 24(1), 413. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05371-9

Sarli, G., Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O. C., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., … & Galynker, I. (2024). Using Virtual Patients to Assess and Improve Clinicians’ Emotional Self-awareness: a Randomized Controlled Study. Academic Psychiatry, 48(1), 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01909-z

Cohen, L. J., Hernandez, M., Mokhtar, R., Richards, J., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Rogers, M. L., & Galynker, I. (2023). Stressful life events and near-term suicidal risk in a clinical population. Psychiatric quarterly, 94(3), 467-482.

2023

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Zilcha‐Mano, S., Rogers, M. L., Park, J. Y., Manlongat, K., Krumerman, M., & Galynker, I. (2023). Who are the patients who deny suicidal intent? Exploring patients’ characteristics associated with self‐disclosure and denial of suicidal intent. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 147(2), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13511

Cohen, L. J., Imbastaro, B., Peterkin, D., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Wolfe, A., & Galynker, I. (2023). A suicide-specific diagnosis–The case for. Crisis, 44(3). https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000911

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yanez, N., Chennapragada, L., Richards, J., Cohen, L., & Galynker, I. (2023). The Narrative-Crisis Model of Suicide: a Novel and Empirically-Validated Diathesis-Stress Model of Suicide. In: Pompili, M. (eds) Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41319-4_14-1

2022

Park, J. Y., Rogers, M. L., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Richards, J. A., Lee, S., Galynker, I., & You, S. (2023). Factor structure and validation of the revised Suicide Crisis Inventory in a Korean population. Psychiatry investigation, 20(2), 162-173. https://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2022.0208

Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2022). Differential disclosure of suicidal intent to clinicians versus researchers: Associations with concurrent suicide crisis syndrome and prospective suicidal ideation and attempts. Psychiatry research, 312, 114522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114522

Muran, J. C., Eubanks, C. F., Lipner, L. M., & Bloch‐Elkouby, S. (2023). Renegotiating tasks or goals as rupture repair: A task analysis in a cognitive–behavioral therapy for personality disorder. Psychotherapy research, 33(1), 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2079439

Cohen, L. J., Mokhtar, R., Richards, J., Hernandez, M., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2022). The narrative‐crisis model of suicide and its prediction of near‐term suicide risk. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 52(2), 231-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12816

* Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Barzilay, S. (2022). Alliance-focused safety planning and suicide risk management. Psychotherapy, 59(2), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000416

2021

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Barzilay, S., Gorman, B. S., Lawrence, O. C., Rogers, M. L., Richards, J., Cohen, L., Johnson, B. & Galynker, I. (2021). The revised suicide crisis inventory (SCI-2): Validation and assessment of prospective suicidal outcomes at one month follow-up. Journal of affective disorders, 295, 1280-1291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.048

Urmanche, A. A., Lipner, L. M., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Hunter, E., Kaufmann, J., Warren, J. T., Weil, G., Eubanks, C. & Muran, J. C. (2021). The beginning of the end: a comparison of treatment completers and early dropouts in trainee-provided time-limited cognitive behavioral therapy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2021.1997916

Barzilay, S., Gagnon, A., Yaseen, Z. S., Chennapragada, L., Lloveras, L., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2021). Associations between clinicians’ emotion regulation, treatment recommendations, and patient suicidal ideation. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 52(2), 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12824

Rogers, M. L., Vespa, A., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2021). Validity of the modular assessment of risk for imminent suicide in predicting short‐term suicidality. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 144(6), 563-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12824

McMullen, L., Parghi, N., Rogers, M. L., Yao, H., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2021). The role of suicide ideation in assessing near-term suicide risk: A machine learning approach. Psychiatry research, 304, 114-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114118

Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Bafna, A., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Richards, J., Lloveras, L. B., Feeney, K., Morris, S., Musser, E., Lok, B. & Galynker, I. (2021, December). Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients’ Nonsensical Responses on Users’ Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 1-10). https://doi.org/10.1145/3489849.3489864

2020

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Gorman, B., Lloveras, L., Wilkerson. T., Schuck, A., Barzilay, S., Calati, R., Schnur, D., & Galynker, I. (2020). How do distal and proximal risk factors combine to predict suicidal ideation and behaviors? A prospective study of the narrative crisis model of suicide. Journal of Affective Disorders, 277, 914-926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.088

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Gorman, Schuck, A., Barzilay, S., Calati, R., Begum, F., Levy, D., Galynker, I. (2020). The Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A network analysis. Journal of counseling psychology, 67(5), 595. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000423

Barzilay, S., Assounga, K., Veras, J., Beaubian, C., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2020). Assessment of near-term risk for suicide attempts using the Suicide Crisis Inventory. Journal of affective disorders, 276, 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.053

Calati, R., Cohen, L. J., Schuck, A., Jeon, M., Levy, D., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Barzilay, S., Rosenfield, P. J., & Galynker, I. (2020). The modular assessment of risk for imminent suicide (MARIS): A validation study of a novel tool for suicide risk assessment. Journal of affective disorders, 263, 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.12.001

Zilcha-Mano, S., Eubanks, C. F., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Muran, J. C. (2020) Can we agree we just had a rupture? Patient-therapist congruence on ruptures and its effects on outcome in brief relational therapy vs. cognitive behavioral therapy. Journal of counseling psychology, 67 (3), 315. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000400

2019

Barzilay, S., Schuck A., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yaseen, S., Hawes, M., Rosenfield, P., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2019) Associations between Clinicians’ Emotional Responses, Therapeutic Alliance and Patient Suicidal Ideation. Depression and anxiety, 37(3), 214-223. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.22973

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Eubanks, C. F., Knopf, L., Gorman, B. S., & Muran, J. C. (2019). The difficult task of assessing and interpreting treatment deterioration: an evidence-based case study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1180. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01180

Yaseen, Z., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Barzilay, S., & Galynker, I. (2019). Teaching emotional awareness and what to do with it in patient encounters. In Z. Yaseen & A. Foster (Eds.) Teaching Empathy in Healthcare - Building a Core Competency. (pp. 99-116). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29876-0_6

Schuck, A., Calati, R., Barzilay, S., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2019). Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A review of supporting evidence for a new suicide‐specific diagnosis. Behavioral sciences & the law, 37(3), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2397

2017

Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Knopf, L., Gold, J., Muran, J.C. (2017). Assimilative psychodynamic psychotherapy: A critical case study reconsideration. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 27, 254–264. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000062

Chui, A., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., & Barber, J. (2017). Benefits and Challenges: A Closer Look at Case Studies within Trials. In Fishman, D.B., Messer, S.B., Edwards, D.J.A., & Dattilio, F.M. (Eds.). Case studies within psychotherapy trials: Expanding the gold standard. New York: Oxford University Press.