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, Moral injury, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Suicide

פרסומים ויצירות עיקריים / עדכנייםMain / Recent Publications

Yossi Levi-Belz, Ariel Ben-Yehuda, Yoav Levinstein & Gadi Zerach (2024) Moral injury and pre-deployment personality factors as contributors to psychiatric symptomatology among combatants: a two-year prospective study, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15:1
Sela, Y.; Levi-Belz, Y. Nurses’ Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Suicidal Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Depression Management Training. Healthcare 2024, 12, 284.
Levi-Belz, Y., Levinstein, Y., & Zerach, G. (2024). The impact of moral injury on suicide risk among recently discharged Israeli veterans: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of trauma-related guilt and self-forgiveness. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.
Gadi Zerach, Yoav Levinstein, Yossi Levi-Belz, Longitudinal associations between exposure to potentially morally injurious events and suicidal ideation among recently discharged veterans – The mediating roles of depression and loneliness, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 350, 2024, Pages 689-697
Levi-Belz, Y., Krysinska, K., & Andriessen, K. (2023). What Do We Know about Suicide Bereavement, and What We Can Do to Help Suicide-Loss Survivors? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5577. MDPI AG.
Daniel Izmaylov, Avi Segal, Kobi Gal, Meytal Grimland, and Yossi Levi-Belz. 2023. Combining Psychological Theory with Language Models for Suicide Risk Detection. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, pages 2430–2438, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Drucker, A., Levi-Belz, Y., & Hamdan, S. (2023). Depression, Complicated Grief, and Suicide Ideation Following Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 0(0).
Gadi Zerach, Ariel Ben-Yehuda, Yossi Levi-Belz, Pre-deployment aggressiveness, combat exposure and moral injury as contributors to posttraumatic stress symptoms among combatants: A two-year prospective study, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Volume 161, 2023, Pages 158-164
Gadi Zerach, Yoav Levinstein, Yossi Levi-Belz, Longitudinal associations between transgressions of moral beliefs and suicidal ideation among recently discharged veterans, Psychiatry Research, Volume 327, 2023, 115392
Levi-Belz, Y. (2023). Interpersonal facilitators of complicated grief and depression in the aftermath of suicide loss: The mediated roles of suicide-related shame and guilt. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 53, 680–691.
Yossi Levi-Belz & Lilac Lev-Ari (2023) Thinking for healing: The role of mentalization deficits as moderator in the link between complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide-loss survivors, Death Studies, 47:3, 360-369
Yossi Levi-Belz & Sami Hamdan (2023) Shame, depression, and complicated grief among suicide loss-survivors: the moderating role of self-disclosure, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14:1
Yossi Levi-Belz & Shachar Yalon (2023) Depression, PTSD, and suicidal ideation among ex-ultra-Orthodox individuals in Israel, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14:1
Yossi Levi-Belz, Ariel Ben-Yehuda, Gadi Zerach, Suicide risk among combatants: The longitudinal contributions of pre-enlistment characteristics, pre-deployment personality factors and moral injury, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 324, 2023, Pages 624-631
Yossi Levi-Belz, Carmel Blank, The longitudinal contribution of prolonged grief to depression and suicide risk in the aftermath of suicide loss: The moderating role of self-criticism, Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 340, 2023, Pages 658-666
Zerach G, Ben-Yehuda A, Levi-Belz Y. A prospective investigation of protective factors for moral injury and psychiatric symptomatology among Israeli combatants: A Latent Class Analysis approach. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2023;0(0).
Zerach, G., Ben-Yehuda, A., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2023). Prospective associations between psychological factors, potentially morally injurious events, and psychiatric symptoms among Israeli combatants: The roles of ethical leadership and ethical preparation. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.
Levi-Belz, Y.; Ben-Yaish, T. Prolonged Grief Symptoms among Suicide-Loss Survivors: The Contribution of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Characteristics. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 10545.
Benatov, J., Zerach, G., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2022). Moral injury, depression, and anxiety symptoms among health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of belongingness. International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
Levi-Belz, Y., Peleg, D., & Ifrach, K. (2022). An Integrative Psychological Model of Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Among Israeli LGBT Individuals. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying.
Lev-Ari, L., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2022). Mentalization deficits and entrapment moderate the association between complicated grief and suicide ideation among suicide-loss. European Psychiatry, 65(S1), S253-S253
Levi-Belz, Y., & Zerach, G. (2022). “How can they treat it if they can't identify it?”: Mental health professionals' knowledge and perspectives of moral injury. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.
Zerach, G., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2022). Moral injury, PTSD, and complex PTSD among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of self-criticism. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.
Levi-Belz, Y.; Birnbaum, S. Depression and Suicide Ideation among Suicide-Loss Survivors: A Six-Year Longitudinal Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 16561.
Litz BT, Plouffe RA, Nazarov A, Murphy D, Phelps A, Coady A, Houle SA, Dell L, Frankfurt S, Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y; Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Defining and Assessing the Syndrome of Moral Injury: Initial Findings of the Moral Injury Outcome Scale Consortium. Front Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 5;13:923928.
Yossi Levi-Belz & Gadi Zerach (2022) The wounded helper: moral injury contributes to depression and anxiety among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Anxiety, Stress & Coping
Yossi Levi-Belz, Racheli Starostintzki Malonek & Sami Hamdan (2022) Trends in Newspaper Coverage of Suicide in Israel: An 8-Year Longitudinal Study, Archives of Suicide Research
Zerach G, Levi-Belz Y. Exposure to potentially morally injurious events, disruption in assumptive world, moral injury symptoms, and psychological distress among Israeli female veterans. Stress Health. 2022 Dec 16.
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,
Zerach, G.; Levi-Belz, Y.. Moral injury among Israeli healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic - A Latent Class Analysis approach. European Journal of Psychotraumatology ; 12:5-5, 2021.
Zerach, G., & Levi-Belz, Y. (2021). Exposure to combat incidents within military and civilian populations as possible correlates of potentially morally injurious events and moral injury outcomes among Israeli combat veterans. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 1– 15.
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
Yossi Levi-Belz (2021) Growing together: interpersonal predictors of posttraumatic growth trajectory among suicide-loss survivors, Anxiety, Stress & Coping
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.
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., & Feigelman, W. (2021). Pulling together—The protective role of belongingness for depression, suicidal ideation and behavior among suicide-bereaved individuals. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. Advance online publication.
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
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.
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.
Death Anxiety and Intrusive Thinking During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Gigi Or, Yossi Levi-Belz, and Daniela Aisenberg. GeroPsych 2021 34:4, 201-212
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 and Gilo T (2020) Emotional Distress Among Suicide Survivors: The Moderating Role of Self-Forgiveness . Front. Psychiatry 11:341.
*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
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.
G. Rosen, H. Kreiner & Y. Levi-Belz (2020) Public Response to Suicide News Reports as Reflected in Computerized Text Analysis of Online Reader Comments, Archives of Suicide Research, 24:sup1, 243-259
Kinory, Dana; Aisenberg, Daniela; Levi-Belz, Yossi The Cost of Being Apart, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: September 2020 - Volume 208 - Issue 9 - p 663-670
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). 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., & 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., 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
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
Tal Gilo, William Feigelman & Yossi Levi-Belz (2020) Forgive but not forget: From self-forgiveness to posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors, Death Studies
Yossi Levi-Belz (2020) Longitudinal Intercorrelations between Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Growth among Suicide Survivors, Archives of Suicide Research
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. 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
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.
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. (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.
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. [
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. (2019). The Psychology of Suicide: From Research Understandings to Intervention and Treatment. Frontiers in7 Psychiatry, 10, 214.
Levi-Belz, Y., Gvion, Y., Apter, A., eds. (2019). The Psychology of Suicide: From Research Understandings to Intervention and Treatment. Lausanne: Frontiers Media
Lilac Lev-Ari & Yossi Levi-Belz (2019) Interpersonal theory dimensions facilitate posttraumatic growth among suicide-loss survivors: An attachment perspective, Death Studies, 43:9, 582-590
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.
Yossi Levi-Belz, Gadi Zerach, Moral injury, suicide ideation, and behavior among combat veterans: The mediating roles of entrapment and depression, Psychiatry Research, Volume 269, 2018, Pages 508-516
Y. Levi-Belz, Y. Gvion, S. Grisaru & A. Apter (2018) When the Pain Becomes Unbearable: Case-Control Study of Mental Pain Characteristics Among Medically Serious Suicide Attempters, Archives of Suicide Research, 22:3, 380-393
Zerach, G, Levi-Belz, Y. Moral injury process and its psychological consequences among Israeli combat veterans. J Clin Psychol. 2018; 74: 1526– 1544.
Levi-Belz, Y., Krispin, O., Galilee, G., Bodner, E., & Apter, A. (2018). Where are they now? Longitudinal follow-up and prognosis of adolescent suicide attempters. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 39(2), 119–126.

מענקים ופרסים | Grants and Awards

שנת המענק: 2021

ISF

שילוב תיאוריה ומדעי נתונים להערכה של סיכון אובדני מיידי בזמן אמת: צעד בדרך להצלת חיים

בשיתוף עם יעקב גל

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

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

400,000 ₪