Today I’ve been putting together my powerpoints for the upcoming Nate Chute Foundation workshop. The NCF workshop is on two consecutive Tuesday evenings, starting this coming Tuesday.
While reviewing content for the ppts, I tried to pull all the intervention strategies from my brain, and failed. My excuse is that there are too many possible interventions for my small brain to memorize. As a consequence, I was forced to check out the “Practitioner Guidance and Key Points to Remember” sections at the end of all the intervention chapters. To give you a taste, here’s a photo of the “summary” page at the end of the cognitive chapter.
Each of these bulleted items represents a potential method or strategy for intervening in the cognitive dimension with clients or students who are experiencing suicidality. I’m looking forward to talking about these strategies at the Nate Chute workshop, but rather than trying to commit them to memory (like Ebbinghaus would have), I’ll be using my powerpoint slides as a memory aid.
I hope you’re all having a great Sunday night.
John SF
John Sommers-Flanagan 
Great outline for effective therapy to help others.
Thanks Frank! I’m glad you think so.
I am glad someone else has this problem. I had a physician-teacher, treating me at Providence, and she would walk around with a little diagnosis book in her pocket, referencing it, rather than trying to remember of the top of her head.
Having a good memory is a great thing. Having notes is even better!