Liron Lapid Pickman (Sup. Prof. Marc Gelkopf & Dr. Talya Greene),
lapid.liron@gmail.com

Background

Liron has completed her M.A. studies at the department of community mental health, including a practicum in mental health rehabilitation. In 2010-2019 she worked as a research coordinator at NATAL, Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War.

Current Research

Peritraumatic emotions and sense of threat during war and their role in symptom development: A prospective experience sampling study in people with and without a diagnosis of mental disorder

Our knowledge on peritraumatic psychological reactions, such as emotions, sense of threat, or stress symptoms, remains limited due to the use of mostly retrospective and cross-sectional methodology. Within the peritraumatic time frame, when stressful conditions are ongoing, we don’t know enough about the interconnections between emotional reactions, symptoms, threat reactions, and exposure to specific stressors. Research on these issues is particularly scarce among individuals with a mental disorder, who are generally considered to be a vulnerable population. Additionally, while peritraumatic negative emotions have been associated with subsequent posttraumatic stress and depression, the predictive role of emotional reactions to specific stressors during ongoing stressful conditions, assessed in real-time, is still unclear, particularly that of positive emotions. This work addresses these gaps in knowledge, by repeatedly assessing negative and positive emotional reactions and sense of threat in real-time during war, among people with and without a diagnosis of mental disorder. It aims to examine the associations between these variables and exposure to recurring high-intensity stressors, namely rocket warning sirens, as well as explore the role of these variables in both peritraumatic responses and subsequent symptom development, among civilians with and without a diagnosis of mental disorder.

Interests

Trauma;  PTSD;  peritraumatic emotions; mental disorders;  psychiatric symptomatology; experience sampling methodology;  the network approach to psychopathology; outcome assessment; psychiatric rehabilitation;  

Recent conferences

A prospective experience sampling study on the role of peritraumatic emotional reactions as predictors of subsequent symptomatology. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), November 2-5, 2021 (virtual).

Emotional reactivity during war: An experience sampling study of exposure and prior psychiatric diagnosis. Presented at the 16th conference of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), June 13-16, 2019, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Publication list

Gelkopf, M., Haimov, S., & Lapid, L. (2015). A community long-term hotline therapeutic intervention model for coping with the threat and trauma of war and terror. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(2), 249-255. doi: 10.1007/s10597-014-9786-8

Gelkopf, M., Lapid, L., Werbeloff, N., Levine, S. Z., Telem, A., Zisman-Ilani, Y., & Roe, D. (2016). A strengths-based case management service for people with serious mental illness in Israel: A randomized controlled trial. Psychiatry Research, 241, 182-189. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.106

Roe, D., Lapid. L., Baloush-Kleinman, V., Garber-Epstein, P., Gornemann, M. I., & Gelkopf, M. (2016). Using routine outcome measures to provide feedback at the service agency level. Community Mental Health Journal, 52(8), 1022-1032. doi: 10.1007/s10597-016-0039-x

Greene, T., Gelkopf, M., Grinapol. S., Werbeloff, N., Carlson, E. B.,  & Lapid, L. (2017). Trajectories of traumatic stress symptoms during conflict: A latent class growth analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 220, 24-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.05.036

Lapid Pickman, L., Greene, T., & Gelkopf, M. (2017). Sense of threat as a mediator of peritraumatic stress symptom development during wartime: An experience sampling study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 30(4), 372-380. doi:10.1002/jts.22207

Gelkopf, M., Lapid Pickman, L., Grinapol. S., Werbeloff, N., Carlson, E. B., & Greene, T. (2017). Peritraumatic reaction courses during war:  Gender, serious mental illness, and exposure. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 80 (4), 382-398. doi: 10.1080/00332747.2017.1286893

Gelkopf, M., Lapid Pickman, L., Carlson, E. B., & Greene, T. (2019). The dynamic relations of peritraumatic posttraumatic stress symptoms: An experience sampling study during wartime. Journal of Traumatic Stress,32(1), 119-129. doi: 10.1002/jts.22374

Greene, T., Gelkopf, M., Fried, E., Robinaugh, D., & Lapid Pickman, L. (2020). Dynamic network analysis of negative emotions and DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters during conflict. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 72-83. doi: 10.1002/jts.22433

Lapid Pickman, L., Gelkopf, M., & Greene, T. (2021). Emotional reactivity to war stressors: An experience sampling study in people with and without different psychiatric diagnoses. Stress and Health, 37, 127-139. doi: 10.1002/smi.2978

Lapid Pickman, L., Gelkopf, M., & Greene, T. (2021). Do positive and negative emotional reactions during war predict subsequent symptomatology? A prospective experience sampling study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 84, 102492.