Articles about Self-harm

New figures show a rise in self-harm via poisoning.

What is self-harm? Self-harm is when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing with difficult feelings, memories, over...

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 parent...

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

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

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

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

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 fear...

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