My name is Dustin MacDonald. On this website you can learn more about my personal and professional interests including human services and nonprofit management, suicide and other subjects.
Table of Contents
Active Listening and Emotional Support
- Active Listening on Crisis Lines
- Active Listening Process on Crisis Lines
- Building Communication Skills
- Building Your Support Network
- Empathy Statements in Helpline Work
- Improving Your Helpline Work
- Professional Development for Helpline Workers
- Referrals in Counselling
- Setting Limits and Boundaries with Callers
Crisis Intervention
- ABC Model of Crisis Intervention
- Basic Crisis Intervention Skills
- Crisis Case Handling
- Crisis Theory and Types of Crisis
- Critical Incident Stress (CIS) Management
- Coping Strategies in Crisis Intervention
- Curvilinear Model of Anxiety
- Golan Model of Crisis Intervention
- LAPC Model of Crisis Intervention
- The Six Step Model of Crisis Intervention
Counselling
- A Five Stage Model for Counselling Men
- Assessing Elder Abuse with the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE)
- Assessments for Substance Use Disorders
- Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT)
- Cass Identity Model
- Carkhuff and Truax Empathy Scale
- Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP)
- Conducting Psychosocial Assessments
- Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness
- Coping with Flashbacks and Dissociation
- Counselling and Therapy Credentials
- Cultural Competence in Social Work
- Declining Empathy in Social Work Students
- Deliberate Practice in Social Work
- Efficacy of Sex Offender Counselling
- Financial Social Work
- How to Help People Experiencing Sexual Violence
- Involuntary Celibacy: Causes and Treatments
- Language Learning for Social Service Workers
- Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS)
- Marge Simpson and Church Counselling
- Manage Stress Like a Marine
- Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI)
- PREPaRE Model for School Crisis Intervention
- Quit Smoking Counselling
- Sequential Intercept Model
- Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA)
- Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
- Understanding Self-Esteem
General Suicide
- Best Practices in Suicide Postvention
- Biopsychosocial Model of Suicidal Behaviour
- Canadian Suicide Statistics 2016
- Common Suicide Myths
- Identifying Suicide Lethality
- Means Restriction in Suicide Prevention
- My Friend Is Suicidal – What Do I Do?
- On One Man’s Reason for Suicide
- Suicide Awareness Presentation
- Suicide Risk Factors, Warning Signs and Protective Factors
- Suicide Facts and Figures for Presentations
- Youth Suicide Prevention with Kiwanis
Helpline Evaluation Tools
- Crisis Call Outcome Form
- Crisis Center Discrimination Index
- Crisis Line Call Outcomes and Measures
- Fowler Technical Effectiveness Scale
- Methods of Evaluating Helplines and Hotlines
- Recognizing Suicide Lethality (RSL) Scale
- How to Perform Social Return on Investment (SROI)
- Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI)
Helpline Management
- 5 Unconventional Ways to Market Your Helpline
- Beginnings of an Online Crisis Chat Service
- Building a Suicide Prevention Group
- Carver Model of Policy Governance
- Crisis Hotline Certification
- Developing a Risk Management Program for Your Helpline
- Develop a Fee-for-Service Program to Diversify Revenue
- Introduction to Government Policy Development
- Introduction to Social Media for Nonprofits
- Keeping Your Helpline Workers On Task
- Mobile Giving for Your Crisis Line
- Predicting Your Helpline Call Answer Rate
- Preventing Burnout on Crisis Lines
- Starting a Crisis Line or Hotline
- Understanding IRS Form 990
- Ultimate Guide to Starting a Crisis Line
Helpline Recruitment and Screening
Military and Intelligence
- Basic Security in the Field (BSITF)
- Advanced Security in the Field (ASITF)
- An Introduction to Intelligence Research and Analysis
- Case Study: Using OSINT To Unmask The Watchmen
- Combatives and Self Defense
- Deception Detection
- FM2-22-3 Human Intelligence Collector Operations
- How to Conduct a CBRN Vulnerability Analysis
- Intelligence Planning in Military Operations
- Introduction to Risk Management
- Introduction to Surveillance and Countersurveillance
- Manage Stress Like a Marine
- MCRP 6-11C Combat and Operational Stress Control
- Meeting the Military Push Up Standard
- Mill’s Canons of Deductive Reasoning
- Outfit Yourself Like A Spy
- Protection of Civilians
- Recruiting Intelligence Assets with RASCLS
- Terrorist Attack Pre-incident Indicators (TAPI)
- UN Security Level System (SLS)
Basic Intelligence Analyst Training
- The Intelligence Cycle
- Sources of Intelligence Information
- Core Competencies of Intelligence Analysis
- Logic and Inference Development
- Association Analysis
- Link Analysis
- Analysis of Competing Hypothesis (ACH)
- Indicator Development
- Flow Analysis
Other Intelligence Analysis Courses
- 35F Intelligence Analysis Course Curriculum
- Advanced Intelligence Analyst Course
- Intelligence in Combating Terrorism (ICT)
Intelligence Analysis Techniques
- Delphi Technique
- Devil’s Advocacy
- Force Field Analysis
- Getting Started Checklist
- Key Assumptions Check for Intelligence Research
- Morphological Analysis
- Premortem Analysis
- Red Hat Analysis
- SLEIPNIR Assessment Tool
- Sociometry
Men’s Issues
Personal Development
- How to Disguise Yourself
- Increasing Your Situps
- Learning Arabic
- Learning Spanish
- How to Pick Locks
- Learning French
- Getting Out of Debt
- Earning Your Bachelor’s Degree
- Your First 5K
Professional Development Reviews
- Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM)
- Online Counselling and Suicide Intervention Specialist (OCSIS) Review
- Review of LivingWorks suicideCare Seminar
- Suicide to Hope Workshop Review
- What Is Nu-Rekall Mind Science?
Social Media
- @RealTimeCrisis, Tweeting those in distress
- How to Respond to Suicide Threats on Social Media
- What is Social Listening?
Statistics
- Correlation (Calculating Pearson’s r)
- Dispersion and Variability (Standard Deviation)
- Frequency Distributions
- Least-Squares Regression
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Statistical Coding and Classification
- Z-Scores
- Z-Test Hypothesis Testing
Suicide Risk Assessments, Screening Tools and Safety Plans
- CPR Model of Risk Assessment
- Crisis Triage Rating Scale (CTRS)
- Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
- DCIB Suicide Risk Assessment
- Designing Safety Plans with Suicidal Individuals
- Developing Core Competencies for Suicide Risk Assessment
- Documenting a Suicide Risk Assessment
- ED-SAFE Suicide Screening Tool
- Evaluating a Samaritans Suicide Risk Assessment
- Is the SAD PERSONS Scale dangerous?
- Jail Suicide Assessment Tool (JSAT)
- Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Applications
- SAFE-T Tool for Suicide Risk Assessment
- SIMPLE STEPS Model for Suicide Risk Assessment
- The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR)
- The Suicidal Affect-Behavior-Cognition Scale (SABCS)
Suicide in Specific Populations
- Assessing Suicide Risk in Nursing
- Clinical and Legal Aspects of Suicidal Children and Youth
- Law Enforcement Suicide Prevention
- Risk Factors Predicting Youth Suicide Attempts
- Suicide Prevention in the US Military
- Suicide and Religion
- Suicide in Hospitals and Inpatients
- Understanding and Preventing Male Suicide
- Providing Emotional Support Over Text and Chat
Violence and Homicide Assessment
- Basic Homicide Risk Assessment
- Biopsychosocial Model of Violence Risk Assessment
- Childhood and Adolescent Taxon Scale (CATS)
- Dynamic Apraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA)
- Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY)
- Threat Assessment in Education
- Using the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG)
- Using the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG)
- Youth Violence Assessment and Prevention
- Violence in the Social Services