@article{ref1,
title="Enabling practitioners working with young people who self-harm",
journal="Journal of mental health training, education and practice",
year="2015",
author="Foster, Celeste and Birch, Lynsey and Allen, Shelly and Rayner, Gillian",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="268-280",
abstract="PURPOSE: This paper outlines a United Kingdom based interdisciplinary workforce development project that had the aim of improving service delivery for children and young people who self-harm or are feeling suicidal. Approach: This innovative practice-higher-education partnershiputilised an iterative consultation process to establish the local workforce need and then facilitated the systematic synthesis and presentation of evidence-based clinical guidelines in a practical format, for staff working directly with young people who self-harm in non-mental health settings. Outcomes: The development, content and structure of this contextualised resourceis presented, along with emerging outcomes and learning from the team.It is anticipated that this may also be a useful strategy and resource for other teams in other areas and is intended to provide a template that can be adapted by other localities to meet the specific needs of their own workforce. Practical Implications: The paper demonstrates how higher education-practice partnershipscan make clinical guidelines and research evidence in a field often thought of as highly specialist,accessible to all staff. It also shows a process of liaison and enhanced understanding across universal/specialist mental health service thresholds. <br><br>ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This paperdemonstrates how collaborative partnerships can work to bridge the gap between evidence-based guidelinesand their implementation in practice, through innovative multi-agency initiatives. <br><br>KEYWORDS: Self-harm, suicide, children, young people, interdisciplinary, workforce development, risk assessment, stakeholder engagement, mental health, adolescent Paper Type: case study<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1755-6228",
doi="10.1108/JMHTEP-05-2014-0011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JMHTEP-05-2014-0011"
}