by DrKatieBrazaitis | Nov 5, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency, Suicide
In this Making Sense of Suicide installment, I’ll be talking about safety planning. As usual, there is too much to cover in one post. First I’ll describe what safety planning is, provide a quick review of the research, and discuss key elements for ensuring...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Sep 22, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency, Suicide
Welcome back to my series Making Sense of Suicide. I’ve previously talked about why we need to talk about making sense of suicide more, and I reviewed key theories to provide the needed framework for understanding suicidal ideations and related behaviors. Now...
by DrKatieBrazaitis | Jul 2, 2024 | Clinical Interventions, Enhancing Competency, Suicide
I am a firm believer that having a strong foundation in theory allows for the creation of rich and compassionate conceptualizations. This is especially true for making sense of suicide. In this post I will provide a brief review of two of the three frameworks I...
by admingabfleming | Jun 19, 2024 | Enhancing Competency, Suicide
Making sense of suicide helps clinicians increase their competency and comfort in treating suicidal ideations and related behaviors. Part 1: Introduction Suicide remains a national and international crisis. The World Health Organization (2018) estimated that over...
