Detection and Management of Young People at Risk of Suicide - Guidelines for Primary Care Providers:

Guidelines for Primary Care Providers: Detection and Management of Young People at Risk of Suicide
Date of publication: September 1999 - reprinted with amendments in June 2004

The aim of these guidelines is to assist primary care providers to recognise young people at risk of suicide and provide appropriate management or well informed referral to secondary services.

Young people are defined in the guidelines as being between 12 and 25 years of age. The guidelines are designed for general practitioners, practice nurses, public health nurses and school or educational institution nursing staff.

They have been developed by a working party of key individuals utilising an extensive literature review (see appendix 6 for the process used during the development of the guidelines and the members of the working party, and appendix 7 for details on the literature review).

It is intended that the guidelines document becomes a tool for the planned national implementation strategy. It may act as a resource for issues that arise out of planned Continuing Medical or Nursing education and General Practice or Nursing training.

These guidelines were reprinted with amendments in June 2004.

Document availability

You can download these guidlines from the New Zealand Guidelines Group website:

Detection and Management of Young People at Risk of Suicide: Guidelines for Primary Care Providers