Teaching on suicide and self harm

Useful links and downloads

Powerpoint presentation on suicide and self harm

New Zealand Suicide Facts 2005 from the Ministry of Health

New Zealand Suicide Trends: Mortality 1921–2003, hospitalisations for intentional self-harm 1978–2004 - as the name suggests contains historical data on suicides and self harm in New Zealand. Be aware that the data in this document and the New Zealand Suicide Facts on self harm is only a very rough approximation. This is because different DHB's have different rules for defining what is a "hospitalisation". The effect on the figures is to produce an underestimate of the size of the problem.

Psychotherapies for self harm

Suicidal behaviour in mental disorders

Teaching on medically unexplained symptoms

Video link
This is to a video of a case presentation and discussion with various experts about a case of chronic pain and other hard to explain symptoms. Instructive. Lasts for about an hour.

PowerPoint presentation on medically unexplained symptoms

BMJ 2008 review article on "The Assessment and Management of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Teaching on Liaison Psychiatry

PowerPoint presentation on the need for liaison psychiatry

Why do advanced training in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry?