Yosef Sokol, Ph.D.
Yosef Sokol, Ph.D., is a Research Health Science Specialist at the VISN 2 MIRECC at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. He also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Health Sciences at Touro University. Dr. Sokol’s research program focuses on recovery-oriented suicide prevention and the intersection of identity, temporal self-appraisal, and mental health. He is also a pioneer in the application of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) to psychological assessment where he has developed computational methods to identify psychological constructs and suicide risk from natural language.
Dr. Sokol is currently the Principal Investigator on a VA RR&D Career Development Award (CDA-2) developing a novel identity-based treatment for Veterans who have recently experienced a suicidal episode (PASE). He is also the PI on an AFSP Mentored New Investigator Grant examining longitudinal recovery trajectories following suicidal episodes. Dr. Sokol received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hofstra University.
Research Interests
Suicide prevention, Personal Identity, Treatment development, Personal Recovery, Future Self-Continuity, Temporal Self-appraisal, and Long-Covid
Grants
Who Recovers? A Longitudinal Study Exploring Personal Recovery After a Suicidal Episode (2024-2026)
Principal Investigator. Funding source: AFSP
Development of a Recovery Oriented Treatment for Post Acute Suicidal Episode (PASE) Veterans (2021-2026)
Principal investigator. Funding source: VA
Developing an Integrative, Recovery-Based, Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) Psychotherapeutic Intervention (2022-2024)
Co-Investigator. Funding source: VA
Publications (Selected)
A full list of Dr. Sokol’s publications can be found here.
Sokol, Y., Glatt, S., Andrusier, S., Levin, C., Boucher, C., Ridley, J., ... & Goodman, M. (2025). Evaluating Continuous Identify Cognitive Therapy for Veterans with a recent suicidal episode: An open-label group pilot study. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 101576.
Sokol, Y. & Goodman, M. (2025). From Likert scales to large language models: Validating a computational approach to psychological assessment of future self-continuity. Journal of Personality Assessment, 30, 1-11.
Sokol, Y., Wahl, Y., Glatt, S., Levin, C., Tran, P., & Goodman, M. (2025). The Transtheoretical Model of Change and Recovery from a Suicidal Episode. Archives of Suicide Research, 29(3), 637-653.
Sokol, Y., Rosensweig, C., Levin, C., & Glatt, S. (2024). Temporal self-appraisals associated with suicide-related thoughts and behaviors. Journal of Affective Disorders, 350, 148-154.
