Teachable Moments Brief Intervention

Article: Pilot randomized clinical trial of the Teachable Moment Brief Intervention for hospitalized suicide attempt survivors (O’Connor et al., 2020)

Takeaway: People hosptialized for a suicide attempt that received this single, 45-minute intervention demonstrated increased motivation and engagement in mental health services at 3-months.

Want to learn more? TMBI is informed by CAMS and DBT (O’Connor et al., 2015) and seeks to keep motivation and reasons for living often present immediately after an attempt active longer to increase motivation and engagement at discharge. This includes incorporating an understandable model of suicidal thinking, like we cover in the mini-interventions demonstrated in the Respond Module of the SafeSide InPlace Workshop.