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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.

Preparing my presentation for AAS 2010

I'm preparing my presentation for the April 2010 American Association of Suicidology annual conference, which will be held in Orlando, Florida.   My presentation is titled "Evaluation of Commitment to Living: a brief training to address suicide risk assessment and management."  I'm enjoying the preparations because I'm planning to present entirely using mindmaps on my curriculum which relies heavily on mindmaps!  There's a very pleasing symmetry about it.   And I'm impressed all over again with how much the maps aid the conceptual organization of the material I want to present.  I'm sure it's not for everybody, but I find it so helpful.

If you're going to be in Orlando on April 24, please come by and say hello.

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