Suicide Risk and Prevention Research Laboratory

The SRPR Laboratory will often have multiple ongoing research projects and collaborations with other research groups.

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Some of our current projects are listed below:
 

• Evaluating a program evaluation of a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program among police officers focusing on police interactions with individuals in a suicide crisis.

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• Examining the link between gun storage practices and attitudes, masculine gender norms, threat sensitivity, and suicide ideation among U.S. uniformed law enforcement officers

  • Grant funded (NJGVRC)

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• Conducting and evaluating suicide risk assessment and management training for primary care providers who work with child and adolescent patients.

  • Grant funded (Federal and TX State Funds)

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• Adapting, implementing, and evaluating Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training interventions to reduce suicide risk among aging informal caregivers of persons with AD/ADRD.

  • Grant funded (NIH R15)

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• Piloting and evidence-based classroom-style intervention as a suicide prevention intervention.

  • Grant funded (AFSP)

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• Establishing the clinical utility of an assessment of interpersonal hopelessness.

 

• Investigating the relation between treatment-seeking behaviors and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

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