What This Website Provides:
This site is designed to provide information to mental health professionals, primary care clinicians, substance abuse counselors, and school counselors on the workshops, books and consultations provided by TISA. The work of TISA is based upon the writings and workshops of Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D., author of Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding, 3rd Edition and The Practical Art of Suicide Assessment. In addition, the site introduces the flexible interview strategy for eliciting suicidal ideation known as the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (the CASE Approach) as well as the supervision innovations of facilic supervision and macrotraining.