Journal article

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guideline for the management of deliberate self-harm

G Carter, A Page, M Large, S Hetrick, AJ Milner, N Bendit, C Walton, B Draper, P Hazell, S Fortune, J Burns, G Patton, M Lawrence, L Dadd, J Robinson, H Christensen

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2016

Abstract

Objective: To provide guidance for the organisation and delivery of clinical services and the clinical management of patients who deliberately self-harm, based on scientific evidence supplemented by expert clinical consensus and expressed as recommendations. Method: Articles and information were sourced from search engines including PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycINFO for several systematic reviews, which were supplemented by literature known to the deliberate self-harm working group, and from published systematic reviews and guidelines for deliberate self-harm. Information was reviewed by members of the deliberate self-harm working group, and findings were then formulated into consensus-ba..

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