Bloch-Elkouby Lab for Suicide Prevention and Psychotherapy Research

Publications

Note: * indicates joint first authorship; underlined names indicate contributions by students in the lab.

2027

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Johnson, B. N., Chen, J. P., Shi, R., Goncearenco, I., Khaikin, S., Wei, Y., Xu, H., de Siqueira, A. G., Yao, H., Lok, B., Cohen, L., Apter-Levi, Y., Shimon Raz, O., Williams, M. T., & Galynker, I. (in press). Race, bias, and suicide risk assessment: An experimental study using a male adolescent virtual patient. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

2026

Apter Levy, Y., Johnson, B., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Cohen, L. J., & Galynker, I. (in press). Suicide Crisis Syndrome: Further Validation of an Innovative Concept. PLOS One.

Bhatt, Y., Witerska, V., Cohen, L. J., Wheeler, E., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Johnson, B. N., Apter Levy, Y., Shimon Raz, O., & Galynker, I. (2026). Violent and nonviolent suicidal ideation: Predictors of suicide crisis syndrome severity in a longitudinal study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 56(5), e70142. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.70142

Bloch-Elkouby, S., El-Hayek, R., Cohen, L., Chen, J. P., Gorman, B., Apter, Y., Wheeler, E., Park, B., Prekas, A. S., & Galynker, I. (2026). The clinician rated suicide crisis syndrome checklist (SCS-C): Structure, reliability, and concurrent validity among adult psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 402, 121341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2026.121341

Boritz, T., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Di Bartolomeo, A., & Aberman, A. (2026). Alliance Rupture and Repair in Personality Disorders Characterized by Emotion Dysregulation. In A. Okamoto (Ed.), Alliance Rupture Repair in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies (pp. 219–242). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07140-8_13

Garagiola, E., Bhatt, Y., Lawrence, H., Witerska, V., Rosen, T., Galynker, I., & Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026). Patterns of suicidal ideation disclosure in the last week preceding a suicidal attempt. Annals of General Psychiatry, 25(1), 60. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-026-00669-y.

Wheeler, E., Cohen, L. J., Bloch-Elkouby, S., El Hayek, R., Levy, Y. A., Witerska, V., & Galynker, I. (2026). Evaluating concordance between the Suicide Crisis Syndrome Checklist (SCS-C) and Revised Suicide Crisis Inventory (SCI-2). Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a001064

Wheeler, E., Cohen, L. J., Sobrero, M., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lin, N., El Hayek, R., Apter Levy, Y., & Galynker, I. (2026). The development of the Digital Coercion Scale (DCS) and its association with suicide crisis syndrome (SCS). Journal of Psychiatric Research, 202, 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2026.08.007

2025

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Johnson, B., Chen, J. P., El Hayek, R., Jones, A., Eid, T., de Siqueira, A. G., Apter, Y., Yao, H., Lok, B., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2025). Can training clinicians in emotional awareness using virtual patient interactions improve the therapeutic alliance with psychiatric outpatients and reduce suicidal outcomes? Psychiatry Research, 356, 116846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116846

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.), The SAGE encyclopedia of mood and anxiety disorders. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071886229.n442

Galynker, I., Cohen, L. J., Prekas, A. S., King, M., Apter Levy, Y., & Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2025). Suicide Crisis Syndrome: Examining supporting evidence and barriers to diagnostic validity. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1627463. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1627463

Goncearenco, I., Bhise, A., Tortora, J., Shi, R., & Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2025). Suicide, preparatory behaviors. In D. G. Friedman-Wheeler & A. Wenzel (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of mood and anxiety disorders. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071886229.n441

Lawrence, O. C., Wolfe, A., Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Peterkin, D., Lok, B., Yao, H., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Mitelman, S., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2025). Mental health providers’ perspectives on the use of virtual patient interactions for clinical training in working with acutely suicidal patients. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-024-00470-2

2024

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Rogers, M. L., Goncearenco, I., Yanez, N., Nemeroff, C., Chennapragada, L., Cohen, L. J., & 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, 45, 100130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmip.2024.100131

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

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

Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O., Sarli, G., Rogers, M. L., Venkatakrishnan, R., Venkatakrishnan, R., Galynker, I., & Lok, B. (2024, September). Enhancing Virtual Human Interactions by Designing a Real-Time Dialog Filter for Mitigating Nonsensical Responses. In SVR 2024: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (pp. 51-60), Manaus, Brazil. https://doi.org/10.1145/3691573.3691597

Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Rogers, M. L., Lawrence, O. C., Peterkin, D., Zheng, S., Feeney, K., Musser, E. D., Galynker, I., & Lok, B. (2024). Effects of nonsensical responses in virtual human simulations on clinicians’ empathic communication and emotional responses. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 30(1), 554–568. https://doi.org/10.5753/jbcs.2024.4665

Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Goncearenco, I., Cohen, L. J., Nemeroff, C., & Galynker, I. (2024). The narrative crisis model of suicide as a framework for suicide prevention. Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry, 45, 100130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmip.2024.100130

Sarli, G., Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O. C., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Lok, B., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2024). Using virtual patients to assess and improve clinicians’ emotional self-awareness: A randomized controlled study. Academic Psychiatry, 48, 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01909-z

Yao, H., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O. C., Sarli, G., Foster, A., Mitelman, S. A., Galynker, I., & 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, 413. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05371-9

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., 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-023-10038-7

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), 175-182. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000911

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

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

2022

Barzilay, S., Gagnon, A., Yaseen, Z. S., Chennapragada, L., Lloveras, L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Galynker, I. (2022). 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

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

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yanez, N., Chennapragada, L., Richards, J., Cohen, L. J., & Galynker, I. (2022). The narrative-crisis model of suicide: A novel and empirically validated diathesis–stress model of suicide. In M. Pompili (Ed.), Suicide risk assessment and prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41319-4_14-1

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

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

Urmanche, A. A., Lipner, L. M., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Hunter, E., Kaufmann, J., Warren, J. T., Weil, G., Eubanks, C. F., & Muran, J. C. (2022). The beginning of the end: A comparison of treatment completers and early dropouts in trainee-provided time-limited cognitive behavioral therapy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 35(4), 763-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2021.1997916

2021

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Barzilay, S., Gorman, B. S., Lawrence, O. C., Rogers, M. L., Richards, J., Cohen, L. J., 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

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

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, 114118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114118

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/acps.13354

2020

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

Barzilay, S., Schuck, A., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yaseen, S., Hawes, M., Rosenfield, P., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2020). 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., Gorman, B. S., 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, B. S., 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), 595–607. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000423

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), 315–323. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000400

2019

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

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

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

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(2), 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 D. B. Fishman, S. B. Messer, D. J. A. Edwards, & F. M. Dattilio (Eds.), Case studies within psychotherapy trials: Expanding the gold standard (pp. 327-336). Oxford University Press.

Conference Presentations

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, October). Safe Spaces and the Need for Courage. [Discussant]. Biannual Meeting of the North American Chapter, Society for Psychotherapy Research, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, October). Working Through Cultural Ruptures in Psychotherapy and the Role of Therapist Strengths/Virtues. [Discussant]. Biannual Meeting of the North American Chapter, Society for Psychotherapy Research, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, June). Under Pressure: Therapists’ Skills and Performance during Challenging Clinical Situations. [Discussant]. Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Osaka, Japan.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, June). From Scientific Innovation to Clinical Practice: Extending Translational Efforts in Psychotherapy Research. [Discussant]. Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Osaka, Japan.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, June). Beyond the Hype: What It Really Takes to Build an Interdisciplinary AI & Psychotherapy Research Program. [Discussant]. Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Osaka, Japan.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Chen, J., Shi, R., & Galynker, I. (2026, October). Using Virtual-Patient Interactions to Re-imagine the Content and Process of Suicide Risk Assessments and Interventions. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), Transforming Psychotherapy and Clinical Training with AI. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Biannual Meeting of the North American Chapter, Society for Psychotherapy Research, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Chen, P., Apter-Levi, Y., Galynker, I., Gomes de Siqueira, A., & Lok, B. (2026, June). Reimagining the Content and Process of Suicide Risk Assessment Through AI-Driven Virtual Human Interactions. In S. Bloch-Elkouby & D. Atzil-Slonim (Chairs), Transforming Psychotherapy and Training with AI: Insights from Virtual Human Interactions, NLP, and AI Acceptability Studies. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Osaka, Japan.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Johnson, B., Lok, B., & Galynker, I. (2025, November). Beyond Sci-Fi: Harnessing AI-Driven Virtual Human Interactions in Suicide Prevention Research and Training. In S. Bloch-Elkouby & I. Galynker (Chairs), Revolutionizing Suicide Risk Assessment and Training with AI: Insights from Virtual Human Interactions and Natural Language Processing Cutting-Edge Studies. [Paper presentation in a panel]. 2025 Biennial Meeting of the International Academy of Suicide Research and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Boston, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Johnson, B., Jones, A., Chen, J., Lok, B., & Galynker, I. (2025, June). The Impact of Patients’ Race and Clinicians’ Implicit Racial Biases on the Alliance and Clinical Judgment with High-Risk Patients: A Cutting-Edge Virtual Human Interactions Study. In S. Eberhardt (Chair), Preventing Setbacks: Using AI and LLMs to Address Negative Developments in Mental Health Care. [Paper presentation in a panel]. 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Krakow, Poland.

Babl, A., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Freetly-Porter, A., Mageras, K., McDonalds, J., & Urmanche, D. (2025, June). What’s Tricky About Transforming Training? A Discussion on Training Providers. [Structured discussion]. 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Krakow, Poland.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yao, H., Johnson, B., Schock, B., Wei, J. W., Prekas, S., Eid, T., Lok, B., & Galynker, I. (2024, November 18). AI-Driven Virtual Patients: A Cutting-Edge Tool to Investigate the Impact of Implicit Racial Biases on Clinical Judgment and Clinical Process with High-Risk Patients. [Oral presentation]. 2024 Meeting of the International Association for Suicide Prevention Pan-American Conference, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Yao, H., Johnson, B., Goncearenco, I., Lok, B., & Galynker, I. (2024, June). Virtual Human Interactions: A Cutting-Edge Tool to Investigate the Impact of Cultural Factors and Implicit Biases on the Alliance and Clinical Judgment with High-Risk Patients. In S. Goldberg (Chair), A New Era of Alliance Research. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Ottawa, Canada.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Goncearenco, I., Johnson, B., Yao, H., Lok, B., & Galynker, I. (2024, April). AI-Powered Virtual Patients in the Service of Suicide Prevention Among Diverse Adolescents. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), Using Cutting-Edge AI Research to Enhance Clinical Training and Suicide Prevention. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Barzilay, S. (2023, October). Combining Alliance-Focused Training Principles with the Narrative Crisis Model to Promote Effective Suicide Risk Assessments and Interventions. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), Working with Patients at High-Risk for Suicidal Behaviors and Lethal Overdoses Across Treatment Phases: New Conceptual Developments. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Biennial Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Amherst, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Lokai, A., Chen, L., Urmanche, A., Eubanks, C., & Muran, C. (2023, June). The Alliance Among Cross-Cultural and White Dyads: Alliance Ruptures, Resolutions, and Microaggressions. In A. Gumz (Chair), New Research on Alliance Ruptures. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Dublin, Ireland.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Barzilay, S. (2022, July). Alliance-Focused Safety Planning and Suicide Risk Management. In R. Manubens (Chair), Patients’ Interpersonal Problems and the Therapeutic Alliance: Theoretical and Empirical Developments. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Denver, CO, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Kuma, N. A., Chen, L., Lokai, A., Lipner, L., Eubanks, C., & Muran, C. (2021, June). When Racial Biases Stand in Our Way: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Investigation of Racial Microaggressions in Early Phases of CBT. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), The Impact of Cultural Differences and Biases on the Process and Outcome of Psychotherapy. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Heidelberg (Online Event).

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Gorman, B., Schuck, A., Barzilay, S., Calati, R., & Galynker, I. (2019, May). The Suicide Crisis Syndrome: A Network Analysis. In L. Cohen (Chair), Catching the Ticking Time Bomb: Novel Means of Assessing Imminent Suicide Risk. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Galynker, I., Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Barzilay, S. (2019, March). Imminent Suicide Risk Assessment in High-Risk Individuals Denying Suicidal Ideation or Intent: Introduction and Training. [Workshop presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Chicago, IL, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Gorman, B., & Muran, J. C. (2018, September). Psychotherapy Outcome: Time to Assess the Assessment. In J. Boswell (Chair), Factors Associated with Outcomes Monitoring in Psychotherapy. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Biennial Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Snowbird, UT, United States.

Rudenstine, S., Muran, J. C., Eubanks, C., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Constantino, M. J., & Wallner Samstag, L. (2018, June). Training in Psychotherapy Integration at the Doctoral Level. [Structured discussion]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Muran, J. C., Gorman, B., Tufekcioglu, S., Safran, J., Eubanks, C., & Winston, A. (2015, June). Patients’ and Therapists’ Agreement About Patients’ Interpersonal Problems and Therapy Outcome: A Method Paper. In J. Barber (Chair), Understanding the Underlying Patterns of Interpersonal Distress and Its Impact on the Therapeutic Alliance, Diagnosis, and Process and Outcome of Psychotherapy. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Knopf, L., Muran, J. C., Eubanks, C., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Safran, J. D., & Winston, A. (2015, June). Personal Agency as a Change Factor in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders. In J. C. Muran (Chair), The Alliance and Patient and Therapist Interpersonal Behaviors as Predictors of Change. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Taylor, J., Muran, J. C., Eubanks-Carter, C., & Safran, J. (2014, June). Treatment Deterioration and Psychotherapy Process: A Case Study. In A. Werbart (Chair), Treatment Failures and Non-Responding Patients: Lessons from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., & Gold, J. (2014, April). Assimilative Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Case Study. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), One Complex Case, Three Integrative Theory Options. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Muran, J. C., Knopf, L., & Safran, J. (2014, April). Deterioration in Psychotherapy and Incongruence Between Therapists’ and Patients’ Subjective Experience. In C. Eubanks-Carter (Chair), When the Best Laid Plans Go Awry: An Exploration of Patient Deterioration and Therapist Noncompliance. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.

Eubanks-Carter, C., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Hungr, C., Muran, J. C., & Safran, J. (2014, April). A Closer Look at Deterioration and Noncompliance: An Evidence-Based Case Study. In C. Eubanks-Carter (Chair), When the Best Laid Plans Go Awry: An Exploration of Patient Deterioration and Therapist Noncompliance. [Paper presentation in a panel]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2013, June). Integrative Therapy in Effect: A Case Study. [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Barcelona, Spain.

Panels Chaired

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, October). Transforming Psychotherapy and Clinical Training with AI. Panel chair. Biannual Meeting of the North American Chapter, Society for Psychotherapy Research, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2026, June). Transforming Psychotherapy and Training with AI: Insights from Virtual Human Interactions, NLP, and AI Acceptability Studies. Panel chairs. Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Osaka, Japan.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. & Galynker, I. (2025, November). Revolutionizing Suicide Risk Assessment and Training with AI: Insights from Virtual Human Interactions and Natural Language Processing Cutting-Edge Studies. Panel chairs. 2025 Biennial Meeting of the International Academy of Suicide Research and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Boston, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2024, April). Using Cutting-Edge AI Research to Enhance Clinical Training and Suicide Prevention. Panel chair. Annual Meeting of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2023, October). Working with Patients at High-Risk for Suicidal Behaviors and Lethal Overdoses Across Treatment Phases: New Conceptual Developments. Panel chair. Biennial Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Amherst, MA, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2021, June). The Impact of Cultural Differences and Biases on the Process and Outcome of Psychotherapy. Panel chair. Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Heidelberg (Online Event).

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2014, April). One Complex Case, Three Integrative Theory Options. Panel chair. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.

Invited Lectures

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, June 5). The Therapeutic Alliance as a Diagnostic and Intervention Tool with High-Risk Patients. [Invited Psychology Grand Rounds presentation]. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, April 27). Beyond Traditional Risk Models: Understanding and Detecting Risk with the Suicide Crisis Syndrome. [Invited seminar presentation]. Max and Celia Parnes Internship Program.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, April 17). What Can Research Tell Us About Understanding, Detecting, and Preventing Suicide Risk? [Invited seminar presentation]. Yeshiva University’s Frontiers in Psychology Undergraduate Seminar.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, April 16). Suicide Prevention in Rabbinic Work and Pastoral Counseling. [Invited training]. Yeshivat Maharat, a Jewish Orthodox Rabbinical School for Women, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2026, March 18). Breaking Silos: Why Suicide Prevention and Psychotherapy Research Need Each Other. [Invited webinar]. Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2025, November 18). The Therapeutic Alliance with High-Risk Patients: Challenges and Opportunities. [Invited keynote presentation]. University Institute of Psychotherapy of Lausanne University, Switzerland.

Aafjes-van Doorn, K., & Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2025, June 28). The Impact of AI on Psychotherapy: New Developments and Future Directions. [Invited semi-plenary]. 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Krakow, Poland.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2024, October 30). Beyond Sci-Fi: Harnessing AI-Driven Virtual Human Interactions in Psychotherapy Research and Suicide Prevention Training. [Invited lecture]. Harvard Medical School Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research (CDASR).

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2023, March 1). Alliance-Focused Techniques to Promote Collaborative Suicide Risk Assessment and Safety Planning. [Invited training]. Addictions Institute, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2023, January 25). From the Therapy Room to the Lab and Back: Integrating Alliance and Suicide Prevention Research. [Colloquium]. Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2023, January 20). Best Practices in Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. [Invited lecture]. Mount Sinai Health Solutions, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2023, January 11). Suicide Prevention in Rabbinic Work and Pastoral Counseling. [Invited lecture]. Yeshivat Maharat, a Jewish Orthodox Rabbinical School for Women, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2020, January 22). Understanding the Progression from Adversity to Self-Harm. [Invited lecture]. Yeshivat Maharat, a Jewish Orthodox Rabbinical School for Women, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2019, June 1). “You Shall Choose Life”: The Lessons Learned from Recent Suicide Research. [Invited lecture]. Congregation Darkhei Noam for Mental Awareness Month, New York, NY, United States.

Bloch-Elkouby, S., Constantine, S., Harrison, D., Mahmoudi, V., Belser, A., Mahmoodi, V., Michl, A., & Guerrero, R. (2017, April 20). I Need You, You’re the Worst, Please Help Me: Using DBT Skills Group in an Outpatient Setting. [Grand Rounds presentation]. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY, United States.