Bibliographic information

GuidelineMental Health Gap Action Programme (‎mhGAP)‎ guideline for mental, neurological and substance use disorders, [‎3rd ed.]‎.
Year of Publication2023
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization

Recommendation

New

Persons with thoughts or plans of self-harm in the last month or acts of self-harm in the last year. Safety planning type-interventions, i.e. interventions based on principles of safety planning which are multicomponent or supplemented with follow-up or support, can be considered.

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Notes and Remarks

Remarks y The evidence for safety planning as originally defined by Stanley and Brown, 2012 (216) is insufficient, but there is some evidence for safety planning-type interventions based on safety planning to reduce suicide attempts and suicide. Because of practice in the field and due to the value of keeping contact with persons with thoughts, plans or acts of self-harm, interventions based on principles of safety planning can be recommended.