Contact Info
craig.bryan@osumc.edu
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Research Interests

My research focuses on the development and testing of brief interventions to prevent suicidal behavior and their sequelae, with a particular focus on the mechanisms that underlie the emergence of an recovery from high risk states. The suicide-focused interventions I have primarily focused on in my work are brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (BCBT) and crisis response planning (CRP), each of which is associated with a 60% or larger reduction in suicide attempts.

Recently my research has increasingly focused on firearm suicide, to include clinical trial testing lethal means counseling among firearm owners. I am also interested in understanding why, how and for whom different suicide prevention interventions reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and seek to collaborate with researchers possessing expertise in physiological assessment (e.g., EEG, heart rate variability) and imaging (e.g., MRI) methods. Through these collaborations, I hope to better understand the processes that underlie recovery and resilience.