Research

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., & Galynker, I. (2023). Stressful Life Events and Near-term Suicidal Risk in a Clinical Population. Psychiatr Q 94, 467–482 (2023). 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). 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

Sarli G., Rogers, M. L., Bloch‐Elkouby, S., Lawrence, O., Gomes de Siqueira, A., Yao, H., Lok, B., Foster, A., & Galynker, I. (2023). Using Virtual Patients to Assess and Improve Clinicians’ Emotional Self awareness: a Randomized Controlled Study. Academic Psychiatry (In Press). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01909-z

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., & Galynker, I. (2022). 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

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. & 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

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

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, 114-118. 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/sltb.12824

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. (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., 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

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

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, 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.