Peter

Franz

Assistant Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology

Email:

peter.franz@yu.edu

Office Address:

Rousso Building 229

1165 Morris Park Avenue

Bronx, NY 10461

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University; B.S., Cornell University

Biography:

I am a passionate educator and mentor. My approach to both of these roles is student-centric, focusing on ways to help students achieve their individual goals.

My program of research broadly aims to better understand, predict and prevent suicide and other self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. The work of our laboratory, the Risk Prediction and Prevention Lab (RiPPL), has recently been focused on developing accessible and culturally responsive interventions to prevent suicide in our Bronx community and others like it.

Teaching and Research Interests:

I am especially interested in teaching students about research methods in psychology, such as statistics and research design. I hope to make these subjects digestible and engaging in ways that enhance students' clinical training and other career goals. I am also passionate about teaching topics related to emotion, including how these develop through adolescence/young adulthood and influence risk for psychopathology.

Publications:

Franz, P. J., Fortgang, R. G., Millner, A. J., Jaroszewski, A. C., Wittler, E. M., Alpert, J. E., Buckholtz, J.W., & Nock, M. K. (2023). Examining tradeoffs between cognitive effort and relief among adults with self-injurious behavior. Journal of Affective Disorders, 321, 320-328.

Breslow, A.S., Simkovic, S., Franz, P.J., Cavic, E., Liu, Q., Ramsey, N., Alpert, J.E., Cook, B.L. and Gabbay, V. (2023). Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19-related stressor exposure and adverse mental health outcomes among health care workers. American Journal of Psychiatry, 180(12), 896-905.

Franz, P. J., Mou, D., Kessler, D. T., Stubbing, J., Jaroszewski, A. C., Ray, S., Cao-Silveira, V.B., Bachman, S., Schuster, S., Graupensperger, D. Alpert, J.E., & Nock, M. K. (2022). Digital bibliotherapy as a scalable intervention for suicidal thoughts: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 90(8), 626.

Franz, P. J., Kleiman, E. M., & Nock, M. K. (2021). Reappraisal and suppression each moderate the association between stress and suicidal ideation: preliminary evidence from a daily diary study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-8.

Franz, P. J., Nook, E. C., Mair, P., & Nock, M. K. (2020). Using topic modeling to detect and describe self‐injurious and related content on a large‐scale digital platform. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 50(1), 5-18.