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The truth about self-harm for young people and their friends and families
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 35
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides accessible information and advice on self-harm. Self-harm describes any behaviour where someone causes harm to themselves, usually as a way to help cope with difficult or distressing thoughts and feelings. It most frequently takes the form of cutting, burning or nonlethal overdoses. However, it can also be any behaviour that causes injury – no matter how minor, or high-risk (Edited publisher abstract)
Truth hurts: report of the National Inquiry into Self-Harm Among Young People
- Authors:
- CAMELOT FOUNDATION, MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 92p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out an agenda for change. There is the need to know more about the prevalence of self-harm, across the UK as well as in particular population groups; a need to commission services where young people feel listened to, and respected; and a need for much better evidence of what works, both in relation to preventing self-harm and in intervening once the behaviour is underway. There is also the need to build a better understanding of why young people self-harm, and provide high-quality information for young people, their families, and a whole range of agencies and professionals in contact with young people. Above all, perhaps, there is the need to develop the confidence of those closest to young people, so that they can hear disclosures of self-harm without panic, revulsion
Truth hurts: report of the National Inquiry into Self-Harm among Young People: executive summary
- Authors:
- CAMELOT FOUNDATION, MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out an agenda for change. There is the need to know more about the prevalence of self-harm, across the UK as well as in particular population groups; a need to commission services where young people feel listened to, and respected; and a need for much better evidence of what works, both in relation to preventing self-harm and in intervening once the behaviour is underway. There is also the need to build a better understanding of why young people self-harm, and provide high-quality information for young people, their families, and a whole range of agencies and professionals in contact with young people. Above all, perhaps, there is the need to develop the confidence of those closest to young people, so that they can hear disclosures of self-harm without panic, revulsion