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Visible memories: a film about self injury
- Authors:
- HOLE Ben, (Director), MIND IN CROYDON, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- (27 mins), DVD
- Place of publication:
- Purley
... of self-harm, the film argues that such behaviour is a valid coping mechanism for dealing with internal emotional distress, and that consequently, the challenge for those who do not self-injure is to come to terms with their own feelings in relating to those who do.
ABC of mental health: common mental health problems in hospital
- Authors:
- RAMIREZ Amanda, HOUSE Allan
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 7.6.97, 1997, pp.1679-1681.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Discusses the three main types of mental health problems of patients attending acute general hospitals. Acute primary psychiatric disorder, including deliberate self harm; psychiatric disorder in patients with physical illness; and psychologically based physical syndromes (somatisation).
The language of injury: comprehending self-mutilation
- Authors:
- BABIKER Gloria, ARNOLD Lois
- Publisher:
- BPS Books
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 173p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Sourcebook for all those working with people who self-injure. Locates the topic of self-mutilation within the range of other self destructive behaviours such as parasuicide. Includes chapters on: the parameters of self-injury and setting the scene; the cross-cultural and historical context of self-injury; self-injury and social forces; the origins and functions of self-injury for individuals; principles in working with people who self-injure; working with people who self injure; and therapy with people who self-injure.
Suicide and deliberate self-harm
- Author:
- FAULKNER Alison
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 12p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper on the causes of suicide and self harm.
Strategies for preventing suicide
- Authors:
- LEWIS Glyn, HAWTON Keith, JONES Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, October 1997, pp.351-354.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The Health of the Nation includes a target for reducing population suicide rates. This article examines and quantifies various high-risk and population-based strategies for prevention based upon a number of stated assumptions and hypothetical interventions. Concludes that high-risk strategies will have only a modest effect on population suicide rate, even if effective interventions are developed.
Young people at breaking out
- Author:
- BORTON Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 21.5.97, 1997, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The suicide rate for young people is increasing. The author examines a worrying trend.
Recent stressors and family satisfaction in suicidal adolescents in South Africa
- Authors:
- PILLAY Anthony L., WASSENAAR Douglas R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 20(2), April 1997, pp.155-162.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Discusses the results of a study on suicidal behaviours in adolescents. Over three quarters of the sample reported conflict with their parents in the few hours before the event. Significantly more suicidal subjects than controls experienced family conflict, problems at school and problems with boy/girlfriends during the preceding six months. The suicidal subjects also expressed significantly lower levels of family satisfaction than the controls. The results support the view that suicidal adolescents are dissatisfied with their family functioning and use suicidal behaviour as a means of communicating their distress.
ABC of mental health: depression
- Author:
- HALE Anthony S.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 5.7.97, 1997, pp.43-46.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Looks at different forms of depression, their main characteristics and the treatments available.
Self- and other-directed destructive behaviors: assessment and relationship to type of abuse
- Authors:
- TAUSSIG Heather N, LITROWNIK Alan J.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 2(2), May 1997, pp.172-182.
- Publisher:
- Sage
An accumulation of empirical evidence suggests that abused children are more likely to engage in destructive behaviours than are their nonmaltreated peers. This study explores whether the type of abuse experienced was related to the type of destructive behaviour displayed by children who had been placed in foster care. Results indicated that physically abused youth reported engaging in more self-than other-directed destructive behaviours. The results suggest that the type of destructive behaviour is differentially related to the type of abuse experienced. Concludes that further study is needed to clarify the relationship between the type of abuse and the type of destructive behaviours.
Stressbusters: the prisoner Samaritans
- Author:
- HANLEY Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling, 8(2), May 1997, pp.95-96.
Describes an initiative by prisoners in HMP Long Lartin, Worcestershire, to set up a confidential listening service to help fellow inmates.