Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Nicolas Oakey-Frost

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Generally I am interested in preventing and understanding suicidal behavior. To that end, I work to refining suicide risk assessment instruments, study the cognitive and affective mechanisms that underly suicidal thoughts and behavior, and disseminate evidence-based treatments and interventions for suicidal thoughts and behavior and intersecting psychiatric illness like PTSD.

  • Professional Background

    Education

    • 2024 - PhD - Louisiana State University A&M College
    • 2021 - MA - Louisiana State University A&M College
    • 2016 - BA - The University of Utah
  • Research

    Suicidal thoughts and behavior | Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | Assessment and psychometrics | Psychopathology | Dissemination and Implementation Science

  • Publications

    Selected Publications:

    Oakey-Frost, N., Moscardini, E. H., Cowan, T., Gerner, J., Crapanzano, K. A., Jobes, D. A., & Tucker, R. P. (2024). The Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV) as a Potentially Therapeutic Suicide Risk Assessment Tool. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.

    Oakey-Frost, N., Gerner, J., Moscardini, E. H., Olino, T. M., Bryan, A. O., Bryan, C. J., Tucker, R. P. (2024). Measurement Invariance of the Suicide Cognitions Scale-Revised (SCS-R). Psychological Assessment, 36(10), 573 – 584.

    Oakey-Frost, N., Crapanzano, K. A., Gerner, J., Cowan, T., Jobes, D. A., Tucker, R. P. (2023). An observational pilot of the collaborative assessment and management of suicidality brief intervention (CAMS-BI) for adult inpatients. General Hospital Psychiatry, 87, 146 – 147.

    Oakey-Frost, D. N., Divers, R., Moscardini, E. H., Pardue-Bourgeois, S., Gerner, J., Robinson, A., Breaux, E., Crapanzano, K., Calamia, M., Jobes, D. A., Tucker, R. P. (2023). Factor structure and measurement invariance of the Suicide Status Form-4 (SSF-IV). Assessment, 31(3), 574 - 587.

    Oakey-Frost, D. N., Moscardini, E. H., Cowan, T., Cohen, A., & Tucker, R. P. (2023). The temporal dynamics of wish to live, wish to die, and their short-term prospective relationships with suicidal desire. Behavior Therapy, 54(3), 584 – 594.