פרופ' יוסי לוי בלז
Prof. Yossi Levi-belz

מוסד עיקרי

המרכז האקדמי רופין Ruppin Academic Center

דוא״ל

yossil@ruppin.ac.il

קורות חייםCV

דיסציפלינות ראשיותMain Disciplines

Psychology

דיסציפלינות משניותSecondary Disciplines

Clinical Psychology

תחומי מחקר / מילות מפתחKeywords

Depression, Interpersonal relationships, Posttraumatic growth, PTSD, Suicide

פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

Yossi Levi-Belz, Daniela Aisenberg,
Interpersonal predictors of suicide ideation and complicated-grief trajectories among suicide bereaved individuals: A four-year longitudinal study, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 282,
2021
Gadi Zerach & Yossi Levi-Belz (2021) Moral injury and mental health outcomes among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class analysis approach, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12:1
Schwartz, G., Halperin, E., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2021). Moral Injury and Suicide Ideation Among Combat Veterans: The Role of Trauma-Related Shame and Collective Hatred. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Daniela Aisenberg-Shafran, Liora Bar-Tur & Yossi Levi-Belz (2021) Who is really at risk? The contribution of death anxiety in suicide risk and loneliness among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, Death Studies
Avidor, S., Levi-Belz, Y., & Solomon, Z. (2021). What predicts unremitting suicidal ideation? A prospective examination of the role of subjective age in suicidal ideation among ex-prisoners of war. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(3), 338–348.
Gadi Zerach, Yossi Levi-Belz, Brandon J. Griffin, Shira Maguen, Patterns of exposure to potentially morally injurious events among Israeli combat veterans: A latent class analysis approach,
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 79, 2021,
Levi-Belz, Y., Krysinska, K., & Andriessen, K. (2021). “Turning personal tragedy into triumph”: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(3), 322–332.
Levi-Belz, Y., Rotem, N. (2021). The longitudinal contribution of attachment models and interpersonal factors to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1– 17.
Yossi Levi-Belz (2021) Growing together: interpersonal predictors of posttraumatic growth trajectory among suicide-loss survivors, Anxiety, Stress & Coping
Kinory, Dana MA∗; Aisenberg, Daniela PhD∗; Levi-Belz, Yossi PhD†,‡ The Cost of Being Apart, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: September 2020 - Volume 208 - Issue 9 - p 663-670
Yossi Levi-Belz (2020) Longitudinal Intercorrelations between Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Growth among Suicide Survivors, Archives of Suicide Research
Tal Gilo, William Feigelman & Yossi Levi-Belz (2020) Forgive but not forget: From self-forgiveness to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors, Death Studies
Shelef, L., Yavnai, N., Gerber, E., Ben-Yehuda, A., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2020). Suicide among Ethiopian origin soldiers in the IDF - a qualitative view of risk factors, triggers, and life circumstances. Journal of Affective Disorders, 269, 125-133
Levi-Belz, Y., & Aisenberg, D. (2020). Together we stand: Suicide risk and suicide prevention among Israeli older adults during and after the COVID-19 world crisis. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S123–S125.
Levi-Belz, Y. & Gilo T. (2020). Emotional Distress Among Suicide Survivors: The Moderating Role of Self-Forgiveness. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 341
Levi-Belz, Y. & Gamliel, E. (2020). The effect of relative vs. absolute quantitative messages regarding suicide on the perceived severity of the phenomenon. OMEGA-The Journal of Death and Dying, 81(4) 592–606
Levi-Belz Y and Gilo T (2020) Emotional Distress Among Suicide Survivors: The Moderating Role of Self-Forgiveness . Front. Psychiatry 11:341.
Almaliah-Rauscher, S, Ettinger, N, Levi-Belz, Y, Gvion, Y. “Will you treat me? I'm suicidal!” The effect of patient gender, suicidal severity, and therapist characteristics on the therapist's likelihood to treat a hypothetical suicidal patient. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2020; 27: 278– 287.
*Levi-Belz, Y., Barzilay, S., LevyD. & David, O. (2020). To Treat or Not to Treat: The Effect of Hypothetical Patients’ Suicidal Severity on Therapists’ Willingness to Treat. Archives of Suicide Research, 24(3), 355-366
Levi-Belz, Y., Gvion, Y., & Apter, A. (2020). The Serious Suicide Attempts Approach for Understanding Suicide: Review of the Psychological Evidence. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying.
Levi-Belz, Y., & Gamliel, E. (2020). Effect of Relative Versus Absolute Quantitative Messages Regarding Suicide on the Perceived Severity of the Phenomenon. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 81(4), 592–606.
*Levi-Belz, Y., Green, T., & Zerach, G. (2020). Associations between moral injury, posttraumatic stress disorder clusters and depression among Israeli veterans: A network approach. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1736411
Feingold, D., Zerach, G., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). The association between moral injury and substance use among Israeli combat veterans: The mediating role of distress and perceived social support. International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, 17(2), 217-233.
Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). With a little help from my friends: A follow-up study on the contribution of interpersonal characteristics to posttraumatic growth among suicide survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 1(8), 895-904.
Harel, O., Hadash, Y., Levi-Belz, Y., & Bernstein, A. (2019). Does Early Emotional Responding to Initial Mindfulness Training Impact Intervention Outcomes?. Mindfulness, 10(4), 616-626. doi:
Kreiner, H. & Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). Self-disclosure here and now: Combining Retrospective Perceived Assessment with Dynamic Behavioral Measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 558.
Lev-Ari, L. & Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). The interpersonal-psychological theory characteristics as facilitators of posttraumatic growth among suicide survivors: An attachment perspective. Death Studies, 43(9), 582-590.
Levi-Belz, Y. & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). Attachment styles and posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors: The mediating role of interpersonal factors. Crisis, 40(3), 186–195.
Levi-Belz, Y., Gvion, Y., Apter, A. (2019). The Psychology of Suicide: From Research Understandings to Intervention and Treatment. Frontiers in7 Psychiatry, 10, 214.
Levi-Belz, Y. Gavish, T. Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Hoven, C., Carli, V., Sarchiapone, M., & Wasserman, D. (2019). Psychosocial Factors Correlated with Undisclosed Suicide Attempts to Significant Others: Findings from the Adolescence SEYLE Study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 49 (3), 759- 773
Levi-Belz, Y., & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). Is there anybody out there? Attachment style and interpersonal facilitators as protective factors against complicated grief among suicide-loss survivors. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(3), 131-136.
Levi-Belz, Y., Gvion, Y., Apter, A., eds. (2019). The Psychology of Suicide: From Research Understandings to Intervention and Treatment. Lausanne: Frontiers Media
Levi-Belz, Y., Gvion, Y., Levi, U. & Apter, A. (2019). Beyond the mental pain: A case-control study on the contribution of schizoid personality disorder symptoms to medically serious suicide behavior. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 90, 102-109. [
Zerach, G. & Levi-Belz, Y. (2019). Intolerance of uncertainty moderates the association between potentially morally injurious events, suicide ideation and behavior among combat veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32(3), 424- 436
Zerach, G., Levi-Belz, Y., Michelson, M., & Solomon, Z. (2019). The role of marital adjustment in suicidal ideation among former prisoners of war and their wives: A longitudinal dyadic study. Psychology of Violence, 9(3), 245- 256.
*Levi-Belz, Y., & Lev-Ari, L. (2019). “Let’s Talk About It”: The Moderating Role of Self-Disclosure on Complicated Grief over Time among Suicide Survivors. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(19), 3740.

מענקים ופרסים | Grants and Awards

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Suicidal ideation and behavior following moral injury among combat veterans: Toward an empirically-based integrative model

400,000 ₪

פרופ' יוסי לוי בלז Prof. Yossi Levi-belz

מענקים ופרסים | Grants and Awards

פרופ' יוסי לוי בלז
Prof. Yossi Levi-belz