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Webinar

Working with chronic suicidality and self-injury in BPD

Date

31 July 2025
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm (AEST)

Organised by

RANZCP Events

Delivery

Online
Self-harm Suicide Trauma

About

Repeated suicidal and self-injury behaviours are common in people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). 

Evidence-based guidance for suicide and self-injury risk assessment and clinical management is limited and often confusing. This webinar attempts to untangle the complexity of risk evaluation and discuss factors that may be specific to borderline personality disorder risk assessment. 

A matrix method of risk assessment developed through 25 years of clinical expertise at Spectrum, centre of clinical excellence for Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma will be presented. 

Join Associate Professor Sathya Rao and secure your place in this insightful webinar.

Speakers

Associate Professor Sathya Rao

Associate Professor Sathya Rao is the Executive Clinical Director of Spectrum. Sathya is a consultant psychiatrist and holds an adjunct clinical associate professor position at Monash University. He treats people who experience complex trauma and personality disorder. He provides second opinions and secondary consultations for complex clinical conditions associated with personality disorder.  

Sathya directs clinical research and has published research papers, book chapters, and co-authored books on borderline personality disorder. Sathya has taught clinicians across Australia for many years and was the head of the psychiatry training program of Victoria for the RANZCP.

He was a member of the NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines development committee, 2012. He is also the Vice President of the Australian BPD Foundation. Sathya is the President of Australasian Association for Research and Treatment for Personality Disorder (AART-PD) and also chairs the Committee for Professional Practice of RANZCP.
Associate Professor Sathya Rao is the Executive Clinical Director of Spectrum. Sathya is a consultant psychiatrist and holds an adjunct clinical associate professor position at Monash University. He treats people who experience complex trauma and personality disorder. He provides second opinions and secondary consultations for complex clinical conditions associated with personality disorder.  

Sathya directs clinical research and has published research papers, book chapters, and co-authored books on borderline personality disorder. Sathya has taught clinicians across Australia for many years and was the head of the psychiatry training program of Victoria for the RANZCP.

He was a member of the NHMRC Clinical Practice Guidelines development committee, 2012. He is also the Vice President of the Australian BPD Foundation. Sathya is the President of Australasian Association for Research and Treatment for Personality Disorder (AART-PD) and also chairs the Committee for Professional Practice of RANZCP.

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