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Big Ideas for Advancing Suicide Prevention
The recent end of the Spring 2023 semester marked my 40th year of working...
A Voice of Autistic Adulthood: Suicide & Other Challenges Amongst Autistic Adults
Think of the word: autism. What image comes to mind? How would you describe...
10 Tips for Using CAMS with Adherence
For a proven intervention to be effective in the field, clinicians must use the...
The Stepped Care Model in Clinical Suicide Prevention
This article describes several applications and uses of CAMS at all service levels and...
988 and the State of Suicide Treatment in the US
On July 16, 2022, the United States took an enormous step forward in crisis...
CAMS-4Teens®
Upon reflection, probably the single biggest request that we hear from providers in the...
Cultivating Perspectives | Managing Suicidal Risk, 3rd Edition
One of my favorites that is central to successful psychotherapy is the “cultivation of...
How NeuroFlow is Combining Technology and Treatment to Prevent Suicide
NeuroFlow and CAMS-care partner to offer an evidence based therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment...
Clinician-Survivors: The Peril and Promise of Risking to Care
As a clinician and suicide treatment researcher, I have contemplated for decades the prospect...
Addressing the Accessibility Problem: How Technology is Widening Treatment for Black Youth
The COVID-19 pandemic has globally altered our daily interactions. We have had to re-imagine...
Sabbatical Reflections
The word “sabbatical” derives from the Greek sabatikos, meaning “of the Sabbath Day”—a period...
A Common Bond: Reflections on Suicide Prevention Month 2021
>Suicide Prevention Month—September—is invariably a busy time for those of us who work tirelessly...
Excitement in CAMS Renewed!
With plans to start a large National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded multi-site...
Suicide Risk: Effective Clinical Assessment, Management, & Treatment
Misunderstandings are common when dealing with suicide risk in clinical settings. Visit to gain...
Reducing Distress
With the end of the academic year, I have gratefully begun a 16-month sabbatical....
CAMS Meta-Analysis: Intervention for Suicidal Ideation
I am delighted to blog about a brand-new meta-analysis of nine clinical trials showing...
Lethal Means Safety and CAMS
It is interesting how ideas and constructs within suicide prevention that have been around...
The NEED for Competence and Confidence
I recently recorded a two-hour workshop on Zoom for a virtual presentation at the...
2020: A Year of COVID-19 Pandemic Spread and Online Suicide Prevention
Around the world 2020 has been an extraordinarily challenging year during which lives lost...
On the Merits of Suicide Risk Assessment
In recent years it has become somewhat fashionable for people in the field of...
Generativity
I recently wrapped up a memorable series of trainings. Co-sponsored by the National Register...
Hope
Hope is such a simple word. Yet for suicidal people in the depths of...
Considering Suicidal Ideation—Again!
In recent years I have spoken, published, and blogged about the relative importance of...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
An alarming development captured my attention last this week. In the wake of the...
COVID-19 and Suicide Risk:  Worst Fears Realized?
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...
National Suicide Prevention Month 2020:  Reasons for Hope
As we reflect on events of the last year during this September Suicide Prevention...
First Touch:  Administrative Policy vs. Caring Concern, Empathy, Validation, and Truth
I believe there is often a unique moment, a window, of potential engagement that...
Jaspr:  Using Avatars in Emergency Departments with Suicidal Patients Brings New Hope
I was told about a fascinating study that was conducted at the University of...
Lives in the Balance:  Misinformation vs. the Clinical Research Data
One of the most frustrating things I face as the creator of an evidenced-based,...
Paths to Truth
In suicide prevention we can neither afford divisiveness nor extremism. No one has a...
CAMS-care and NeuroFlow Partnership:  Technology Meets Evidence-Based Suicide Assessment and Management
We’re proud to announce a new partnership between CAMS and NeuroFlow, a healthcare solution...
Fear of Suicidal Patients and Taking the Risk to Care
A recent AAS listserv exchange got me thinking about the abject fear that many...
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the CAMS Framework® of Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention
For those of you who use the CAMS framework with your suicidal patients, you...
War and Peace: No Harm Contracts vs. Stabilization Planning
Many years ago, I was in my counseling center office conducting an initial session...
How to Respond When Patients Say They Have No Reasons for Living
In my clinical practice, I have encountered many suicidal patients who say they have...
The COVID – 19 Pandemic and Treating Suicidal Risk: The Telepsychotherapy Use of CAMS
We in the healthcare system need new and innovative ways to interact with our...
Obstacles to Suicide Prevention and Treatment Training
Suicide claims one person in the U.S. every 12 minutes, according to the CDC....
The COVID-19 Impact on Suicide Risk Research & Our Path Forward
Many of us have been riveted by the news reports of the global search...