Franklin Cook has started a suicide prevention news blog that looks very promising. Suicide Prevention News and Comment (SPNAC) is still young-- less than a month old--but already has some valuable information and insights. As the site's name suggests, most of the posts (several each week) are stimulated by news in the suicide prevention arena which Mr. Cook passes on, along with helpful and thoughtful commentary. The webiste has a three-column newspaper-style format, which could be welcoming and familiar to readers who are less experienced with blogs. I have added SPNAC to my blogroll, and look forward to reading more from this site.
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ommitment to Living (CTL) is a practical and compassionate approach for responding to suicide risk. Dr. Anthony R. Pisani developed and tested CTL as a three-hour workshop geared toward busy clinicians in challenging clinical environments. The workshop teaches core competencies in suicide risk assessment, documentation, and decision-making. This weblog originated in 2007 in response to interest from participants in ongoing education and interaction. At the present time, Dr. Pisani posts to the blog intermittently, and uses it as a repository for commentaries and links that might be helpful to workshop participants, as well as to clinicians around the world who visit and comment.