PUBLICATIONS
2026
Mandavia, A. D., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Banducci, A. N., Rose, G., Bradley, J., Marx, B. P., Davenport, M., & Livingston, N. A. (2026). The role of PTSD in suicide death and lethal means among veterans with substance use disorders. Psychiatry Research.
Low, D. M., Rankin, O., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Bentley, K. H., Nock, M. K., & Ghosh, S. S. (in press). Using large language models to create lexicons for interpretable text models with high content validity: the Suicide Risk Lexicon. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Finch, E. F., Coppersmith, D. D. L., & Ronningstam, E. (2026). Contextualizing suicidality in narcissism: A commentary. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 33(1), 19–22.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kleiman, E. M., & Dixon-Gordon, K. L. (2026). It is time to take chronic suicidal ideation seriously. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 135(3), 341-342.
Millgram, Y., Coppersmith, D. D. L, Sheppes, G., Fortgang, R., Goldenberg, A., & Nock, M. K. (2026). Emotion regulation in daily life among adults with suicidal thoughts. Clinical Psychological Science, 14(1), 74-94.
2025
Bentley, K. H., Ball, M. I., Bose, S., Fortgang, R. G., Coppersmith, D. D. L., DeMarco, D., Hu, N., Herrmann, F., Daniel, M., Dempsey, W., & Nock, M. K. (2025). Pilot microrandomized trial of a brief digital intervention for suicidal thoughts. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 93(10), 690-704.
Meyerhoff, J., Coppersmith, D. D. L., & Fox, K. R. (2025). The ethical imperative of self-directed tools in crisis helplines to prevent suicide at scale. Nature Mental Health, 3(3), 269-270.
2024
Tauseef, H. A., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Reid-Russell, A. J., Nagpal, A., Ross, J., Nock, M. K., & Eisenlohr-Moul, T. (2024). A call to integrate menstrual cycle influences into just-in-time adaptive interventions for suicide prevention. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1434499.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Bentley, K. H., Kleiman, E. M., Jaroszewski, A. C., Daniel, M., & Nock, M. K. (2024). Automated real-time tool for promoting crisis resource use for suicide risk (ResourceBot): development and usability study. JMIR Mental Health, 11, e58409.
Kiekens, G., Claes, L., Kleiman, E. M., Luyckx, K., Coppersmith, D. D., Fortgang, R. G., ... & Nock, M. K. (2024). The short-term course of nonsuicidal self-injury among individuals seeking psychiatric treatment. JAMA Network Open, 7(10), e2440510.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kleiman, E. M., Millner, A .J., Wang, S. B., Arizmendi, C., Bentley, K. H., DeMarco, D., Fortgang, R. G., Zuromski, K. L., Haim, A., Onnela, J. P., Bird, S. A., Smoller, J. W., Mair, P., Nock, M. K. (2024). Heterogeneity in suicide risk: Evidence from personalized dynamic models. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 180, 104574.
Coppersmith, D. D. L, Jaroszewski, A. C., Gershman, S. J., Cha, C. B., Millner, A. J., Fortgang, R. G., ... & Nock, M. K. (2024). Do people know how suicidal they will be? Understanding suicidal prospection. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 54(4), 750-761.
Falkenstein, M. J., Kelley, K. N., Martin, H. S., Kuckertz, J. M., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Bezahler, A., ... & Webb, C. A. (2024). Multi-method assessment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among patients in treatment for OCD and related disorders. Psychiatry Research, 333, 115740.
Bentley, K. H., Millner, A. J., Bear, A., Follet, L., Fortgang, R. G., Zuromski, K. L., Kleiman, E. M., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Castro-Ramirez, F., Millgram, Y., Haim, A., Bird, S. A., & Nock, M. K. (2024). Intervening on high-risk responses during ecological momentary assessment of suicidal thoughts: Is there an effect on study data? Psychological Assessment, 36(1), 66–80.
2023
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Millgram, Y., Kleiman, E. M., Fortgang, R. G., Millner, A. J., Frumkin, M. R., Bentley, K. H., & Nock, M. K. (2023). Suicidal thinking as affect regulation. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(4), 385–395.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Ryan, O., Fortgang, R. G., Millner, A. J., Kleiman, E. M., & Nock, M. K. (2023). Mapping the timescale of suicidal thinking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(17), e2215434120.
Ladis, I., Valladares, T. L., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Glenn, J. J., Nobles, A. L., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2023). Inferring sleep disturbance from text messages of suicide attempt survivors: A pilot study. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 53(1), 39-53.
Coppersmith, D. D., Wang, S. B., Kleiman, E. M., Maimone, J. S., Fedor, S., Bentley, K. H., ... & Nock, M. K. (2023). Real-time digital monitoring of a suicide attempt by a hospital patient. General Hospital Psychiatry, 80, 35-39.
2022
Choi-Kain, L. W., Murray, G. E., Goldblatt, M. J., Wilks, C. R., Vahia, I. V., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Ilagan, G.S., & Ren, B. (2022). Unremitting suicidality in borderline personality disorder: a single case study and discussion of technology in clinical care. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 30(6), 350-360.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Dempsey, W., Kleiman, E. M., Bentley, K. H., Murphy, S. A., & Nock, M. K. (2022). Just-in-time adaptive interventions for suicide prevention: Promise, challenges, and future directions. Psychiatry, 85(4), 317-333.
Bustamante, C. M. V., Alama-Maruta, K., Ng, C., & Coppersmith, D. D. L. (2022). Should machines be allowed to ‘read our minds’? Uses and regulation of biometric techniques that attempt to infer mental states. MIT Science Policy Review, 3.
Haller, S. P., Chen, G., Kitt, E. R., Smith, A. R., Stoddard, J., Abend, R., Cardenas, S. I., Revzina, O., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., & Pagliaccio, D. (2022). Reliability of task-evoked neural activation during face-emotion paradigms: Effects of scanner and psychological processes. Human Brain Mapping, 43(7), 2109–2120.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Fortgang, R. G., Kleiman, E. M., Millner, A. J., Yeager, A. L., Mair, P., & Nock, M. K. (2022). Effect of frequent assessment of suicidal thinking on its incidence and severity: High-resolution real-time monitoring study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 220(1), 41-43.
2021
Bentley, K. H., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kleiman, E. M., Nook, E. C., Mair, P., Millner, A. J., ... & Nock, M. K. (2021). Do patterns and types of negative affect during hospitalization predict short-term post-discharge suicidal thoughts and behaviors?. Affective Science, 2(4), 484-494.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Bentley, K. H., Kleiman, E. M., & Nock, M. K. (2021). Variability in the functions of nonsuicidal self-injury: Evidence from three real-time monitoring studies. Behavior Therapy, 52(6), 1516-1528.
Rodman, A. M., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Dennison, M. J., Flournoy, J. C., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Nook, E. C., ... & McLaughlin, K. A. (2021). A year in the social life of a teenager: within-persons fluctuations in stress, phone communication, and anxiety and depression. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(5), 791-809.
Abend, R., Bajaj, M. A., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kircanski, K., Haller, S. P., Cardinale, E. M., ... & Pine, D. S. (2021). A computational network perspective on pediatric anxiety symptoms. Psychological Medicine, 51(10), 1752-1762.
Wang, S. B., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kleiman, E. M., Bentley, K. H., Millner, A. J., Fortgang, R., ... & Nock, M. K. (2021). A pilot study using frequent inpatient assessments of suicidal thinking to predict short-term postdischarge suicidal behavior. JAMA Network Open, 4(3), e210591.
2020
Lazarov, A., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Levi, O., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Lubin, G., Pine, D. S., ... & Neria, Y. (2020). Symptom structure of PTSD and co-morbid depressive symptoms–a network analysis of combat veteran patients. Psychological Medicine, 50(13), 2154-2170.
Kearns, J. C., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Santee, A. C., Insel, C., Pigeon, W. R., & Glenn, C. R. (2020). Sleep problems and suicide risk in youth: A systematic review, developmental framework, and implications for hospital treatment. General Hospital Psychiatry, 63, 141-151.
Jacobson, N. C., Bentley, K. H., Walton, A., Wang, S. B., Fortgang, R. G., Millner, A. J., ... & Coppersmith, D. D. L. (2020). Ethical dilemmas posed by mobile health and machine learning in psychiatry research. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98(4), 270-276.
2019
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kleiman, E. M., Glenn, C. R., Millner, A. J., & Nock, M. K. (2019). The dynamics of social support among suicide attempters: A smartphone-based daily diary study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 120, 103348.
2018
Millner, A. J., Coppersmith, D. D., Teachman, B. A., & Nock, M. K. (2018). The Brief Death Implicit Association Test: Scoring recommendations, reliability, validity, and comparisons with the Death Implicit Association Test. Psychological Assessment, 30(10), 1356-1366.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Nada-Raja, S., & Beautrais, A. L. (2018). An examination of suicide research and funding in New Zealand 2006–16: implications for new research and policies. Australian Health Review, 42(3), 356-360.
Kleiman, E. M., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Millner, A. J., Franz, P. J., Fox, K. R., & Nock, M. K. (2018). Are suicidal thoughts reinforcing? A preliminary real-time monitoring study on the potential affect regulation function of suicidal thinking. Journal of Affective Disorders, 232, 122-126.
2017
Glenn, C. R., Kleiman, E. M., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Santee, A. C., Esposito, E. C., Cha, C. B., ... & Auerbach, R. P. (2017). Implicit identification with death predicts change in suicide ideation during psychiatric treatment in adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(12), 1319-1329.
Coppersmith, D. D. L., Nada-Raja, S., & Beautrais, A. L. (2017). Non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts in a New Zealand birth cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 221, 89-96.

