Guidance
This guidance contains the following chapters:
- Overview
- Recognising self-harm
- Definitions and myths about self-harm
- Supporting mental health and wellbeing, and preventing self-harm
- Responding to self-harm incidents
- Managing communication
- Communicating with secondary school-aged students
- Student recovery and healing
- Self-care for school staff
- Mental health and wellbeing and whole school approaches
Table of contents for Responding to self-harm, including suicide attempts, in students: a guide to assist secondary schools
Reviewed 27 August 2025