Articles about Self-harm

Last week, a study from the Lancet Psychiatry journal suggested that young people characterised as goths may be at...

Risks for teenagers are changing, could technology be to blame?

Self-harm can be troubling for parents to witness. It can also be bewildering, frightening and alarming. The...

There can be many different reasons why young people and sometimes children hurt themselves. Major life events...

Self-harm is becoming more and more common in our community and specifically amongst our young people. It can be...

There seems to have been a lot written about self-harm in the media of late. 1st March was Self-harm...

Following Self-Harm Awareness Day, we discuss the importance of talking about self-harm and why it shouldn't be...

Figures show the number of young children being admitted to hospital for self-harming is at a five-year high.

Having your child or adolescent deliberately self-harm is the psychological issue which many parents or carers...

New figures reveal that over the last two years the number of children who self-harm has increased by over 70%.

Before I started working with people who self-harm I could not reconcile in me the possibility that someone who...

There is no doubt at all that self-harm is a huge issue that is affecting more and more young people. At the same...