Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing

Guidelines for best practice psychosocial assessment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thoughts

Leckning, B., Ringbauer, A., Robinson, G., Carey, T. A., Hirvonen, T., Armstrong, G. (2019) Guidelines for best practice psychosocial assessment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Menzies School of Health Research: Darwin.

ABSTRACT

These guidelines contain recommendations for the effective and appropriate psychosocial assessment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Development of the guidelines has been informed by a combination of the available practice-based evidence for improving patient outcomes and the expertise of professionals and those with lived experience of self-harm and suicidal thoughts amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.