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New approaches to preventing suicide: a manual for practitioners
- Editors:
- DUFFY David, RYAN Tony
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 382p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by front line professionals in the fields of nursing, mental health, prison services and the law, this text is an essential companion to the government's new suicide prevention strategy. The contributors offer a practical guidance on issues such as risk assessment and management in a range of settings, policy and the legal framework around suicide. Exploring the links between self-harm and suicide, the authors present international approaches to training in suicide prevention for professionals and preventative initiatives targeting wider communities. They debate the legality and morality of assisted self-harm and analyse the rate and causes of suicide among specific groups, including Black and minority ethnic groups, people in custody and people with mental illnesses. This manual provides health, social care and criminal justice professionals with information needed to make a positive contribution to suicide prevention in institutional and community settings.
Preventing suicide: a toolkit for mental health services
- Authors:
- DUFFY David, RYAN Tony, PURDY Rowan
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Service Framework for Mental Health set prevention of suicide as one of its seven standards for improving mental health care. This standard is supported by Safety First, the most recent report of The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. The Confidential Inquiry analysed reports of all suicides by mental health service users. The Inquiry team put forward a large number of recommendations. This audit tool aims to assist mental health services in implementing these recommendations and provides a simple, cost-effective way of measuring existing service standards. It addresses issues of concern along the entire pathway of care from assertive outreach to admission to an in-patient service through to community care. It also covers family/carer involvement, post-incident review and preventive work such as development of a dual diagnosis strategy and liaison with criminal justice agencies.