Personalised approach to risk: learning event 8

Domestic and sexual violence, self-harm, and suicide

Thursday 29 January 2026

On this page:

• Recording of the session
• Links and resources
  • Research
  • NICE resources
  • Culture of Care resources
  • Neurodiverse Connection resources
  • Lived-experience led resources
  • Other resources

Recording of the session

Domestic and sexual violence, self-harm, and suicide risk

At this learning event, we overviewed evidence and lived experience of trauma, domestic and sexual violence, self-harm and suicide.

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Links and resources

Research

• Identifying, assessing and responding to perpetration of domestic abuse: practice guide for mental health professionals (BJPsych Advances, 2024)
• Domestic violence and suicide in women under the care of mental health services in the UK, 2015-2021: a national observational study (The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 2025)
• Sexual assault in the inpatient psychiatric setting (General Hospital Psychiatry, 2023)

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NICE resources

• Domestic violence and abuse quality standard
• Domestic violence and abuse: multi-agency working guideline
• Scenario: Managing domestic abuse

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Culture of Care resources

• Preventing sexual violence on wards training – additional guidance

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Neurodiverse Connection resources

• Grooming and Coercive Control Summit 2023
• Grooming and Coercive Control Summit 2023 – support organisations

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Lived experience-led resources

• Survivors Voices
• New Ways of Supporting Child Abuse and Sexual Violence Survivors (Prepared by Jo Lomani in collaboration with Survivors Voices)
• Rapid Response to ‘Medical colleges and unions call for inquiry over ‘shocking’ levels of sexual assault in the NHS (The BMJ)

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Other resources

• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (legislation.gov.uk)
• Responding to domestic abuse: a resource for health professionals (Department of Health)
• Supporting patients who make disclosures of sexual violence on inpatient wards: A practical guide for mental health professionals (Rachel Luby)
• Standards and guidance to improve sexual safety on mental health and learning disabilities inpatient pathways (Sexual Safety Collaborative)
• Sexual safety on mental health wards (Care Quality Commission)
• Written evidence submitted by Dr Philippa Greenwood and Dr Beena Rajkumar
• IRISi interventions
• Emma Nielsen’s ‘Art of Hope’ social project
• Tim Woodhouse’s Churchill Fellowship profile: Reducing suicide amongst people impacted by domestic abuse

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