The Suicidology Lab at USU
The Suicidology Lab at USU researches suicide and its prevention—including aspects of assessment, treatment, public health, and more. We have a particular focus on youth and young adult populations. Our ultimate goal is to help others build lives worth living.
Suicidology is a dynamic, interdisciplinary field that overlaps with many areas of psychology, psychiatry, social work, public health, sociology, legal studies, philosophy, applied statistics, and more. It also touches many related areas of study within health service psychology, including non-suicidal self-injury, mood disorders, behavior therapies, borderline personality disorder, and crisis states. We believe the overarching goal of this work is to help people build lives worth living.
The lab is run by Dr. Erik Reinbergs. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology within the school psychology program, a licensed psychologist, and a nationally certified school psychologist. Prior to USU, Dr. Reinbergs was an assistant professor at the University of Houston Clear Lake. He earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts and completed his internship year and postdoctoral fellowship at the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.
Below you'll find our lab manual.
Lab members
In addition to Dr. Reinbergs, the lab consists of several graduate students from the school psychology program:
- Tiffany Harris, first year PhD student in the school psychology program
- Ellie Azamian, first year PhD student in the school psychology program
Lab alumni from UHCL:
- Doctoral students: Jay Short, Carmen Ibarra, Mary Beth Morgan, Kelsey Bishop, and Charmaine Flakes
- Masters or specialist degree students: Anara Makahani
Our work
You can find the lab's published work on Dr. Reinbergs's Google Scholar profile. Don't hesitate to email Dr. Reinbergs if you don't have access to any of the articles—he'd be happy to freely share them. We also post our data and code for publications on the Open Science Framework.
