"Every good teacher, if he is to make his students good doctors, must get them to cultivate the habit of noticing the little apparent trifles."

Joseph Bell, M.D. (1837-1911)
Chief Surgeon at the
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh



(Physician upon which Sherlock Holmes was based)


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As TISA is a new site, please note that the following pages are under construction and we regret any inconvenience this may incur.

In the future the following pages will describe two distinctly different offerings from TISA:

1. Consultations regarding quality assurance, ongoing training, and program design of access centers and crisis intervention teams will be available. In addition consultations on creating sound forensic documentation will be a special emphasis of TISA.
2. Trainings and retreats for supervisors will be a "specialty of the house".
   

At the present time we have information available on one of the retreats which is described below. These retreats are not only powerful learning experiences, they are great fun.

The following retreat is designed for the faculty of graduate programs in clinical psychology, counseling, and social work, psychiatric residencies, and clinical programs in which the institution wishes to design an intensive interviewing training program with a heavy emphasis upon ongoing, direct mentorship of interviewing skills. This "train the trainer" retreat focuses on teaching supervisors state of the art methods of training students in the following skills: engagement skills, abilities to transform resistance, diagnostic skills using the DSM-IV, and suicide and violence assessment skills. The philosophy is to teach these skills with a real world emphasis that the student should be able to incorporate these skills into a comprehensive initial assessment completed in 60 minutes, exactly as they will be expected to do in actual clinics, community mental health centers, and hospitals once leaving grad school or a psychiatric residency program.