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The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) produces professional practice guidelines, position statements and other resources to help psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in their work. Current topics of relevance to infant, child and adolescent mental health include:
Professional practice guidelines
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health: Principles and guidelines (ethical guideline 11, July 2014) [PDF; 74 KB]
- Deliberate self-harm (clinical practice guideline) (October, 2016) [PDF; 1,076 KB]
- Eating disorders (clinical practice guideline, October 2014) [PDF; 656 KB]
- Guidance for involving families and whanau of mental health consumers/tangata whai ora in care, assessment and treatment processes (November 2000) [PDF; 266 KB]
- Guidance on the use of SSRIs and SNRI in late pregnancy (December 2005, under review) [PDF; 148 KB]
- Guide to managing post disaster stress response (March 2011) [PDF; 57 KB]
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (clinical practice guidelines, 2013)
- Psychotropic drug use in children and adolescents (practice guideline 7, November 2015) [PDF; 26 KB]
- RANZCP Perinatal Mental Health Plan (December 2005, under review) [PDF; 64 KB]
- Use of antidepressant medications in children and adolescents (clinical guidance March 2005, under review) [PDF; 404 KB]
Position statements
- Addressing the mental health impacts of natural disasters, climate-change-related weather events and acts of terrorism (position statement 35, March 2016) [PDF; 225 KB]
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in childhood and adolescence (position statement 55, October 2014) [PDF; 148 KB]
- Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness (position statement 69, October 2011, under review) [PDF; 61 KB]
- Child sexual abuse (position statement 51, March 2016) [PDF; 188 KB]
- Children in immigration detention (position statement 52, February 2015) [PDF 180 KB]
- Children of parents with mental illness (position statement 56, March 2016) [PDF; 188 KB]
- Mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care (position statement 59, March 2015) [PDF 280 KB]
- Minimising the use of seclusion and restraint in peoples with mental illness (position statement 61, February 2016) [PDF; 351 KB]
- Mothers, babies and psychiatric inpatient treatment (position statement 57, May 2015) [PDF; 199 KB]
- Prevention and early intervention of mental illness in infants, children and adolescents (position statement 63, February 2013, under review) [PDF; 84 KB]
- Recognising and addressing the mental health needs of the LGBTI population (position statement 83, March 2016) [PDF; 302 KB]
- Role of psychiatrists in the prevention and early intervention of mental illness in infants, children and adolescents (position statement 64, February 2010, under review) [PDF; 82 KB]
- Sexual orientation change efforts (position statement 60, June 2015) [PDF; 61 KB]
- Suicide reporting in the media (position statement 70, August 2015) [PDF; 101 KB]
- Supporting carers in the mental health system (position statement 76, December 2012) [PDF; 159 KB]
- The impact of media on vulnerable children and adolescents (position statement 72, November 2011, under review) [PDF; 36 KB]
Other resources
- Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness (report, October 2011) [PDF; 394 KB]
- Prescribing psychotropic medication for patients with an intellectual disability (e-learning resources)
- The mental health care needs of children in out-of-home care: A report from the expert working committee of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (report, June 2008) [PDF; 392 KB]
