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Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence

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  • Reference number: NG225
  • Published:  07 September 2022
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Evidence reviews - September 2022

The following documents contain the evidence that was used to develop the 2022 recommendations:

  • Information and support needs of people who have self-harmed
  • Information and support needs of families and carers of people who have self-harmed
  • Consent, confidentiality and safeguarding
  • Involving family and carers in the management of people who have self-harmed
  • Assessment in non-specialist settings
  • Assessment in specialist settings
  • Risk assessment and formulation
  • Admission to hospital
  • Initial aftercare
  • Psychological and psychosocial interventions
  • Pharmacological interventions
  • Harm minimisation strategies
  • Therapeutic risk-taking strategies
  • Supporting people to be safe after self-harm
  • Safer prescribing
  • Skills required by staff in specialist settings
  • Supervision required for staff in specialist mental health settings
  • Skills required by staff in non-specialist settings
  • Supervision required for staff in non-specialist settings
  • Models of care for people who have self-harmed

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  • Methods
  • Glossary (definitions of terms used throughout the evidence reviews)

This page was last updated: 07 September 2022

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