About this course

Learning Objectives

• List the symptoms of two proposed suicide-specific diagnoses: Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance and Suicide Crisis Syndrome.
• Describe the crisis symptoms that are most strongly related to near-term suicide-related outcomes.
• Identify at least one benefit and one drawback of the inclusion of a suicide-specific diagnosis in the DSM.

Target Audience

Course Instructor(s)

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  Megan L. Rogers, PhD

  Dr. Megan Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Texas State University. She completed her BA in Psychology at North Carolina State University, her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Florida State University, and her predoctoral clinical internship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Rogers's research primarily focuses on short-term transdiagnostic risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, with an emphasis on improving our understanding and assessment of acute suicidal crises. She is also interested in improving suicide risk assessment and management through leveraging indirect assessments and digital real-time interventions. To this end, she has published over 190 peer-reviewed manuscripts and led/contributed to numerous externally funded projects. In recognition of her early-career research contributions, Dr. Rogers was honored with the Association for Psychological Science's Rising Star Award and the American Association of Suicidology's Edwin S. Shneidman Award. In addition to her position as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Rogers serves as a co-chair of the Suicide Research Symposium.

References

• Rogers, M. L., Jeon, M. E., Zheng, S., Richards, J. A., Joiner, T. E., & Galynker, I. (2023). Two sides of the same coin? Empirical examination of two proposed characterizations of acute suicidal crises: Suicide crisis syndrome and acute suicidal affective disturbance. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 162, 123–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.05.001
• Joiner, T. E., Simpson, S., Rogers, M. L., Stanley, I. H., & Galynker, I. I. (2018). Whether called Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance or Suicide Crisis Syndrome, a suicide-specific diagnosis would enhance clinical care, increase patient safety, and mitigate clinician liability. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 24, 274–278.
• Rogers, M. L., Chu, C., & Joiner, T. E. (2019). The necessity, validity, and clinical utility of a new diagnostic entity: Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance (ASAD). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 999–1010. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22743
• Rogers, M. L., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Goncearenco, I., Cohen, L. J., Nemeroff, C. B., & Galynker, I. (2024). The narrative crisis model of suicide as a framework for suicide prevention. Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry, 45–46, 100130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmip.2024.100130
• Rogers, M. L., Richards, J. A., Peterkin, D., & Galynker, I. (2024). Examining Suicide Crisis Syndrome as an indirect indicator of suicide risk in the Military Suicide Research Consortium’s Common Data Elements. Archives of Suicide Research, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2024.2434745