I had a stimulating conversation about the directions my work is heading with two of my mentors last week. One part of the conversation was about further examining the potential of visual mapping in clinical teaching, especially in the area of suicide risk assessment. I need to understand the cognitive science of mapping more. One [...]
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Example of risk map
April 12, 2007
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In a comment on my previous post about visual presentation for clinical training in risk assessment, Avi of GUI Yourself requested an example. Here is a .pdf of a map I use. The details are collapsed, but you can get the idea. I also teach using a map of the options available to clinicians in [...]
Read moreEvidence for visually different presentation format
April 11, 2007
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The materials I am working on to train clinicians in risk assessment involve visual maps which I present using Mindmanager. I have blogged about this learning tool before (here and here). Well…I haven’t read the source research that this article from the Sidney Morning Herald is based on, but it looks like it provides data [...]
Read moreOrganizational factors that support care of suicidal person
March 7, 2007
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Wendi Cross, a gifted and innovative colleague in our department, presented at our Family Research Roundtable yesterday. One of the ways she is contributing to the field is to raise awareness about, and develop methodology to study, the factors surrounding implementation of an evidence-based intervention (be it training, prevention, or therapeutic intervention) that influence its [...]
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 [...]
Read moreTech tools for clinical thinking and training
February 8, 2007
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Whenever I present, I get questions about the technology I use. I work on a Fujitsu T Series Lifebook (T is for Tablet PC), and use MindManger by Mindjet for almost everything I think about or present. I’m happy to let people know what I use because I think they are tools that lend themselves [...]
Read moreClinician anxiety–what’s it about?
February 1, 2007
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When the “S” word comes up, many clinicians feel on edge. I’m sure that more than one factor (and different factors for different people) that contributes to the anxiety, but they are different enough that it affects how we would target training. Here are some possibilities: Uncomfortable with the pain and despair of another. Squemish [...]
Read moreHow we think about Primary Care “Gatekeepers”
January 27, 2007
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Primary care physicians are often grouped in as “gatekeepers,” who need to be able to ask about suicide, know warning signs, and refer. The tend not to get in-depth training about formulating or documenting risk assessments. The problem with this “gatekeeper” view is that we don’t have the kind of seamless system that allows the [...]
Read morePost from AAS/SPRC Workshop-Thoughts about staying therapeutic
January 4, 2007
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I’m in Ohio this week at a “train the trainer” workshop developed by the American Association for Suicidology (AAS) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). The workshop is called “Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core competencies for mental health professionals.” The training has been excellent so far. The material focuses a lot on the [...]
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