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.
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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