A colleague pointed me to a nice article on suicide risk assessment written by David J. Muzina, MD in the September issue of Current Psychiatry Online. The article is well-written and well-organized. The stepwise approach described can be quite helpful. I wish the article included more on documentation (there is only one sample note, and I’m not [...]
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Presentation to Board of Wynne Center for Family Research
September 9, 2007
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I presented at the Wynne Center for Family Research (WCFR) board meeting today. I presented about our clinical services and about my work in suicide risk assessment, including how it grew out of experiences with suicidal patients in couples and families. The Center board and the faculty of the WCFR were present. The Board is [...]
Read moreeMJA: The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?
August 23, 2007
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Found this informative and resource-rich article, thanks to a post by PsychSplash about it. I was glad to read this overview, which relates to thoughts I’ve had about web 2.0 opportunities (see related posts). eMJA: The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution? Related posts: [...]
Read moreCTL added to PsychNews
August 21, 2007
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Commitment to Living has been added as a news source to PsychNews, a site that aggregates psychology news from a range of sources. PsychNews has a nice-looking interface and plans to offer RSS syndication soon, which will be good for those who want a breadth of psych news coverage in a single feed. Related posts: [...]
Read moreConversation with Paul Quinnett, Founder/CEO of QPR
August 1, 2007
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I talked yesterday with Paul Quinnett, Ph.D. Founder and CEO of the QPR Institute. He has been working in the field of suicide prevention for decades and has developed an excellent set of tools for clinicians. I enjoyed the conversation because Dr. Quinnett is bright, experienced, and passionate about his work, and also because of [...]
Read moreUnintended consequences of antidepressant black box warning?
April 11, 2007
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An article by Charles Nemeroff and colleagues in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month reports reports on the “Impact of Publicity Concerning Pediatric Suicidality Data on Physician Practice Patterns in the United States.” (If you don’t have access to the journal, you can read a report on the article here.) The authors show [...]
Read moreHow clinicians learn: Web 2.0 Opportunities?
February 8, 2007
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A thoughtful colleague of mine observed yesterday that, although there is a range of ways clinicians get clinical information about suicide (articles, workshops, books, practice manuals), a lot of clinical learning takes place informally–by doing the work and by talking with other clinicians. That is probably especially true for the busiest front-line clinicians. I later [...]
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