Background: Primary care may be a key setting for suicide prevention as many patients visit their General Practitioner (GP) in the weeks leading up to their death. Comparatively little is known about GPs’ perspectives on risk assessment, treatment adherence, management of and in…
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Prison self-injury rate accelerates at four times the rise in population” (The Howard League for Penal Reform; 2008a) The rise in self-harm figures in forensic settings in 2003 may largely be due to the improvement in the reporting of self-harm levels in prisons in December 2002…
This thesis presents four studies that examine the potential role that intrusive thoughts, dissociation and mindfulness in self-harming behaviours in young people and adults. A large online study was conducted with students and staff at a UK university. This examined a range of …
The widespread practice of non-suicidal self-injury suggests that it might no longer be reasonable to frame such behaviours as individual pathologies and highlights the need to understand such acts as sociological phenomena instead. This dissertation therefore explored the core …
This study presents the results of an in-depth literature review on nonsuicidal self-injury in the adolescent population. It addresses family systemic factors that impact the onset, perpetuation, and cessation of NSSI. The literature review is comprised of 76 peer-reviewed artic…
Recent data indicate 1 in 4 adolescents reported a history of self-harm. The literature on adolescents who self-injured and were admitted to the emergency room is sparse. The purpose of the study was to investigate the type of treatment decision an adolescent commonly receives w…