Assessment, prediction, and reduction of suicide risk across lifespan
Christine Cha’s research focuses on youth suicide: how best to assess, predict, and reduce the risk of suicide early in life. She employs multi-informant assessments and real-time monitoring to assess suicidal thoughts and behaviors—yielding more ecologically valid and temporally rich clinical observations. Cha’s work promotes cognitive-affective mechanisms (e.g., episodic future thinking) as a promising domain of predictors and intervention targets among suicidal youth. Her studies leverage research advances across clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and medicine to identify new candidate predictors and treatment designs for this vulnerable population.
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Cha is an Associate Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and a core faculty member at the Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health. She received her BA in Psychology and Spanish from Wellesley College, her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Harvard University, and completed her internship training at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Cha’s work has been funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, NIH, DoD, and NYC Department of Health. She is also a licensed psychologist in Connecticut and New York.