title: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guideline for the management of deliberate self-harm.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  
  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-based recommendations and clinical guidance. The guidelines were subjected to successive consultation and external review involving expert and clinical advisors, the public, key stakeholders, professional bodies and specialist groups with interest and expertise in deliberate self-harm.
  
  
  
  The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for deliberate self-harm provide up-to-date guidance and advice regarding the management of deliberate self-harm patients, which is informed by evidence and clinical experience. The clinical practice guidelines for deliberate self-harm is intended for clinical use and service development by psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians and others with an interest in mental health care.
  
  
  
  The clinical practice guidelines for deliberate self-harm address self-harm within specific population sub-groups and provide up-to-date recommendations and guidance within an evidence-based framework, supplemented by expert clinical consensus.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia Department of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Waratah, NSW, Australia gregory.carter@newcastle.edu.au.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Centre for Health Research, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Page
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia School of Psychiatry, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Large
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hetrick
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Centre for Population Health Research, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Burwood VIC, Australia Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Allison Joy
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia School of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Information Technology, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bendit
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Centre for Psychotherapy, Hunter New England Mental Health Service and Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Walton
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia School of Psychiatry, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Draper
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hazell
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Kidz First, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fortune
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Brain & Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, ACT, Australia Centre for Adolescent Health, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Patton
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Tauranga Hospital, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lawrence
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Mental Health & Substance Use Service, Hunter New England, NSW Health, Waratah, NSW, Australia Awabakal Aboriginal Medical Service, Hamilton, NSW, Australia Pital Tarkin, Aboriginal Medical Student Mentoring Program, The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia Specialist Outreach NT, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dadd
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dudley
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Clinical Practice Guideline for Deliberate Self-harm Working Group, RANZCP, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Black Dog Institute, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000628:therapy*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Guidelines; deliberate self-harm; management; treatment