There can be many different reasons why young people and sometimes children hurt themselves. Major life events such as the death of a close relati…

Self-harm is becoming more and more common in our community and specifically amongst our young people. It can be very distressing and confusing to th…

There seems to have been a lot written about self-harm in the media of late. 1st March was Self-harm Awareness Day. Different charities and organisat…

Having your child or adolescent deliberately self-harm is the psychological issue which many parents or carers fear most. The term deliberate self-ha…

Before I started working with people who self-harm I could not reconcile in me the possibility that someone who already suffers greatly emotionally c…

There is no doubt at all that self-harm is a huge issue that is affecting more and more young people. At the same time, unhelpful attitudes and fear-…

With self-harm returning to the news in recent weeks there is an opportunity for us all to reach out to this much misunderstood group of people. The…

With a recent report finding that 1 in 12 young people self-harm, the time has come to square up to this cry for help from some of the most vulnerabl…

Self-Injury or self-harm is still a subject that we as a society find difficult to talk about. It is rarely in the mainstream media and there is unea…