Heather M. Wastler

Heather M. Wastler studies suicide risk and prevention among people with psychosis and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, including how thoughts of suicide progress into actual attempts. Her work often uses real-time tracking methods (ecological momentary assessment) to examine how sleep problems, stress, emotion regulation, and social factors like feeling like a burden or lacking belonging relate to suicidal thinking, and she also evaluates brief clinical interventions such as crisis response and safety planning.

Publication output has grown substantially over the past decade, rising from just 1-2 papers per year around 2017-2019 to a sustained pace of roughly 8-12 papers annually since 2022.

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