Mental health guidelines

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This webpage covers all NICE’s guidelines on mental health. The table presents the guidelines alphabetically. Updates planned or in progress and areas we’re actively monitoring are listed for each guideline, and there are links to the individual update pages for more information.

Guidelines

Common mental health conditions

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Common mental health problems: identification and pathways to care	-	To be confirmed
Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: Recognition and management	-	Low-intensity psychosocial interventions Delivery of low-intensity psychosocial interventions for depression
Depression in adults: treatment and management	-	To be confirmed
Depression in children and young people: identification and management	-	Psychological therapies for mild and moderate to severe depression in children and young people
Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder in adults: management	-	Antidepressant medication for panic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder: treatment	-	To be confirmed
Post-traumatic stress disorder	-	To be confirmed
Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment	-	To be confirmed

Severe mental health conditions

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Bipolar disorder: assessment and management	-	Managing bipolar depression in adults in secondary care Pharmacological interventions for long-term management
Coexisting severe mental illness (psychosis) and substance misuse: assessment and management in healthcare settings	-	To be confirmed
Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services	-	To be confirmed
Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management	-	Early intervention in psychosis services Pharmacological treatment options for: adults with FEP or early schizophrenia. subsequent acute episodes of psychosis or schizophrenia adults with schizophrenia in remission Psychological and psychosocial interventions for adults with schizophrenia or psychosis, including in remission Depot/long acting injectable antipsychotic medication Interventions for people whose illness has not responded adequately to treatment
Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people - recognition and management	-	Possible psychosis Access to and delivery of services for children and young people with schizophrenia or psychosis Pharmacological interventions for First and subsequent acute episode psychosis (FEP) in children and young people Antipsychotic-induced weight gain Interventions for children and young people with psychosis or schizophrenia whose illness has not responded adequately to treatment
Rehabilitation for adults with complex psychosis	-	To be confirmed

Personality and conduct disorders

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition and management	-	To be confirmed
Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management	-	To be confirmed
Borderline personality disorder: recognition and management	-	To be confirmed

Eating disorders

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Eating disorders: recognition and treatment	-	Psychological treatment for adults with: anorexia nervosa bulimia binge eating treating other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFED)

Criminal justice

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system	-	Staff training

Self-harm & suicide prevention

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Preventing suicide in community and custodial settings	-	To be confirmed
Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence	-	Assessment and care by healthcare professionals and social care practitioners

Harmful sexual behaviour

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people	-	To be confirmed

Guideline

Updates planned and in progress

Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor

Harmful sexual behaviour among children and young people

To be confirmed

Violence and aggression

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Violence and aggression: short term management in mental health, health and community settings	-	Anticipating and reducing the risk of violence and aggression Using restrictive interventions in inpatient psychiatric settings Managing violence and aggression in children and young people

Wellbeing

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Mental wellbeing at work	-	To be confirmed
Mental wellbeing in over 65s: occupational therapy and physical activity interventions- Occupational therapy interventions	-	Occupational therapy interventions to promote wellbeing in over 65s Physical activity interventions to promote wellbeing in over 65s
Social and emotional wellbeing: early years	-	To be confirmed
Social and emotional wellbeing in primary and secondary education	-	To be confirmed

Maternal mental health

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance	-	To be confirmed

Learning disabilities

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re proposing to actively monitor
Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management	-	To be confirmed

Methods

Areas for active monitoring are identified by our maintaining and updating our guideline portfolio process including validation with stakeholders.

Active monitoring is ongoing surveillance in key topic areas. It involves one or more of:

monitoring studies in progress by systematically searching for ongoing studies and assessing the results when published
monitoring newly published studies by continuous searching of newly published evidence
system monitoring by systematically collating intelligence from the health and care system and working with partners to identify areas of change.

Guideline recommendations are developed using the methods and processes in developing NICE guidelines: the manual and the interim principles for methods and processes for supporting digital living guideline recommendations.

If you have new information, intelligence or evidence relevant to any of the key topic areas listed above, please contact prioritisation@nice.org.uk.