College Directory

Areas of Expertise

• Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Exposure
• Suicide Attempt Survivors/Lived Experience
• Bereavement

Publications

• Xiao, Y., Bi, K., Yip, P. S., Cerel, J, Brown. T.T., Peng. Y., Pathak, J, & Mann. J. J., MD (3/2024). Decoding Suicide Decedent Profiles and Signs of Suicidal Intent using Latent Class Analysis. JAMA Psychiatry doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0171
• Pitman, A, McDonald, K., Logeswaran, Y., Lewis, G., Cerel, J., Lewis, G., & Erlangsen, A. (3/2024). The role of depression and use of alcohol and other drugs after partner suicide in the association between suicide bereavement and suicide: cohort study in the Danish population. Psychological Medicine 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0033291724000448.
• Brown, H. L., Selbe, S. M., Rosellini, A. J., Gradus, J. L., Maple, M. & Cerel, J. (in press 2/5/2024, published 2/20) The Impact of Relationship Type and Closeness on Mental Health following Suicide Loss. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.13063
• Athey, A., Kilmer, B. & Cerel, J. (2024). An Overlooked Emergency: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Adults Are Negatively Affected by Drug Overdose Deaths. American Journal of Public Health 114, 276_279, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307550
• Aldrich, R. A. & Cerel, J. (2023). Willingness to Intervene against Suicide Enhanced Questionnaire, Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2227435
• Snow, A., Cerel, J. & Frey, L. (2021) A Safe Bet? Transgender and Gender Diverse Experiences with Inclusive Therapists. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
• Xiao, Y., Cerel, J., & Mann, J. J. (6/2021). Temporal Trends in Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among US Adolescents by Sex and Race/Ethnicity, 1991-2019. JAMA Network Open.
• Soberay, K, Cerel, J., Brown, M. & Maple, M. (2021). An Examination of Suicide Exposure and Fearlessness about Death on Suicide Risk among Active Duty Service Members, Veterans, and Civilians. Archives of Suicide Research.
• Ranning, L , A., Madsen, T., Fleischer, E., Eckardt , J. P., Nordentoft , M., Cerel, J. & Erlangsen , A. (2021). People affected by suicide attempts: frequency, impact, and perceived support. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
• Kennedy, A. J., Cerel, J., Kheibari, A. & Watts, J. (2021) A comparison of farmer and non-farmer suicides from the United States National Violent Deaths Reporting System, 2003-2016. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
• Cerel, J., Tucker, R.P, & Snow, A. (2020). Suicide Exposure in Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults. Journal of Affective Disorders.
• Nadorff, M.R., DeShong, H.L., Golding, S., Cerel, J., McDaniel, C.J., Pate, A.R., Kelley, K., & Walgren, M.D. (2021). Rates of exposure to natural, accidental, and suicide deaths. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
• Cerel, J., Brown, M., Maple, M., Singleton, M., van de Venne, J, Moore, M. & Flaherty, C (2018). How many people are exposed to suicide? Not six. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12450

Current Projects

• Identifying the longitudinal outcomes of suicide loss in a population-based cohort NIH R01 Prime (BU) PI: Rosellini (contact)/Gradus

Alma Mater

• The Ohio State University – Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology
• The Ohio State University – PhD in Clinical Psychology