The SA01: Policy Management Framework is your guide to writing/developing or reviewing a policy to ensure it meets with Trust standards.
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Staff are advised to always check that they are using the correct version of any policies rather than referring to locally held copies. The most up to date version of all Trust policies can be found on this webpage.
* Please note that following the acquisition of Calderstones Partnership NHS FT, South Sefton Community Services transaction and the Liverpool Community Services NHS Trust transaction, a number of policies are specific to staff transferring from these services as indicated.
MMD-PROC-016 - Self Harm Procedure
The Trust understands self-harm as symptomatic of some greater distress. The
Trust has developed an approach which whilst not condoning self-harm, accepts
it as a current means of coping whilst seeking alternatives. This policy
recognises an inclusive approach to supporting patients, working in genuine
partnership, to find alternative coping strategies to self-harm rather than an
exclusively prevention model.
This policy adopts a non-judgmental, non-punitive caring and empathic response
to self-harm, where the patient retains the responsibility between further acts of
self-harm and in developing alternatives (unless there is a perceived threat to life
or threat of considerable injury and taking into account the individual’s mental
capacity to make such decisions).
Divisions
- Community Care Division