New guide on suicide prevention for mental health workers

New key on suicide prevention for mental health workers

SANE Australia has released a practical and easy-to-understand resource that helps mob working in mental health to confirm a person who may be at hazard of taking their own life.

Supporting people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours be able to be a challenging and daunting task,' explains Charmaine Smith, Acting CEO of SANE Australia. 'The Suicide Prevention and Recovery Guide aims to acquaint a range of mental health workers relative to different ways to address the number of suicide with their clients.'

According to Ms Smith, preventing suicide is a core function of what mental health services do, and for all that not everyone with mental illness bequeath experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours, population with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar require a higher risk of suicide than others in the common.

'This guide encourages people working in intellectual health, in both community and hospital settings, to consider a holistic approach toward the part they are caring for, including them in conclusion making and encouraging individual responsibility.

'It's once worthwhile taking a step back and given to reflection on how we go about our toil,' Ms Smith explains. 'This is especially important in a field where in that place is no standard, Australia-wide self-murder prevention training for the mental freedom from disease sector.'

Ms Smith says this resource not all people working in ideal health have the skills and assurance to address suicide effectively, if needed.

The Suicide Prevention and Recovery Guide focuses forward how to talk to people nearly suicide in a way that empowers them. It focuses ward:

building a meaningful relationship with clients;

the emblem of language to use around self-murderer and mental illness;

ways to restore people feel more included;

the consequence of workers' self-care and further training;

how workers in both community and hospital settings have a role to put in action in suicide prevention and

successful programs that are reality used by mental health services.

The Suicide Prevention and Recovery Guide was funded the agency of the Department of Health and Ageing. The resort will be distributed to mental health services around Australia and an online translation is available here: Suicide Prevention and Recovery Guide.