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This webpage covers all NICE’s guidelines on mental health. The table presents the guidelines alphabetically. Updates planned or in progress and areas we’re actively monitoring are listed for each guideline, and there are links to the individual update pages for more information ...

For further details, see the section on follow-up. Ensure that all members of the multidisciplinary team including primary care and specialist mental health services are kept informed about the assessment, support, and treatment of any episode where a person presents at risk of self-harm.

This guideline covers assessment, management and preventing recurrence for all people who have self-harmed, including those with a mental health problem, neurodevelopmental disorder or a learning disability. This guideline will update NICE guideline CG16 (published July 2004) and NICE guideline CG133 (published November 2011).

How mental health practitioners can manage risk including self-harm and harm to others.

This perspective paper reports on a consultation and co-production project to provide up-to-date best practice principles in clinical risk management to enhance the consistency, quality and safety of mental health practice in the UK mental health services, and for mental health services in other English speaking countries.

The guidelines suggest risk assessment should focus on the person’s needs and how to support their immediate long-term psychological and physical safety. Read the NICE guideline: Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence

Despite the growing interest in patient safety, its application to mental health context is still largely unexplored [1]. Indeed, mental health hospitals or units face unique patient safety issues, such as those related to self-harm, suicide and use of restraints/seclusion [1, 2].

About this toolkit This toolkit has been developed by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) from the NICE Quality Standard (QS34) covering the initial management of self-harm and the provision of longer-term support for children and young people (aged 8 to 18) and adults (aged 18+) who self-harm. NICE quality standards describe high-priority areas ...

The NICE guideline on assessing and managing self-harm is a comprehensive package of recommendations for the people affected and health professionals alike. It emphasises the importance of awareness, respect for the individual, and training and support. Safer prescribing is an important strategy for risk assessment and risk reduction in primary ...

Dear Editor This BMJ article begins “In this practice pointer, we outline how GPs and non-mental health clinicians can assess and manage young people aged 12-25 after self-harm or suicidal thoughts. Our approach is informed by the 2022 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline for managing self-harm.” (1).

Assessing for mental health problems The first signs of mental health problems in people with learning disabilities can be changes in behaviour (for example, becoming withdrawn or anxious, forgetting skills or needing prompts to do things). If any staff (such as teachers or support workers) notice changes that concern them, they may arrange an assessment to check the person's mental health. If ...

This is part of NHS England’s Culture Change Improvement Programme. We will be: Providing expert advice to support mental health organisations to move away from using risk assessment scales and tools, and towards a personalised approach to risk. Bringing together evidence and guidance specific to suicide risk assessment and management.

At Mind Over Matter Mental Health, we get to know each patient and develop a treatment plan to help patients manage anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions. We provide psychiatric evaluations, medication management, psychotherapy, risk assessment, and goal achievement.

Both the former Chief Coroner and the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) have raised concerns about risk prediction and stratification, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence (NG225) emphasises replacing risk prediction methods with a ...

This perspective paper reports on a consultation and co-production project to provide up-to-date best practice principles in clinical risk management to enhance the consistency, quality and safety of mental health practice in the UK mental health services, and for mental health services in other English speaking countries.

Definitions of depression and severity Depression refers to a wide range of mental health problems characterised by the absence of a positive affect (a loss of interest and enjoyment in ordinary things and experiences), low mood and a range of associated emotional, cognitive, physical and behavioural symptoms.

Most AHCCCS members receive all behavioral health services through their chosen AHCCCS Complete Care plan.

Correctional Health Services - Clinic Liaison Form For anyone who is concerned about a person in jail who may need medication or mental health services but are unable to share or unwilling to share (in Maricopa County).

Quality statement Adults who have a mental health risk management plan and are transferring within the criminal justice system have their plan reviewed by the receiving service.