March is Self-Injury Awareness Month in the United States and Canada. Inflicting Tissue Damage Medically, self-injury is defined as intentionally inflicting damage on one's body tissue in ways that are non-suicidal and are not sanctioned by the culture or society. Such acts can include cutting...
In honor of Self-Injury Awareness Month, let's address six common myths about self-injury. What is Self-injury? When people say "self-injury" or "self-harm," they're usually referring to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). NSSI is intentionally engaging in behaviors that you know (or hope)...
Raised awareness on a broad basis in health care and allied disciplines would enable identification and support provision to this vulnerable group. The early death of a parent is among the most traumatic events that can happen to a child.1 The death of a parent may alone or in addition to ...
Acquiring a thorough awareness of the contributing factors associated with the onset of NSSI, particularly in depressed youth, is of utmost importance. This will help in maximizing prevention efforts and further treatment. Personality traits are considered most strongly associated with NSSI behaviour, ...
Three out of the five—#selfharm, #hatemyself and #selfharmawareness—showed a significant jump in usage over the study period. The hashtag #selfharm went from being virtually unused at the beginning of the study to more than 45,000 posts in one month by the end of the year. #hatemy...
Inappropriate self-perception among Chinese adolescents may affect their self-efficacy and lead to corresponding behaviors. It is also adolescents who habitually make wrong internal attributions to events63, thus strengthening their autonomous awareness of these wrong behaviors and making it easier for them...
(without asking concrete acts), it is possible that participants would have reported a higher and therefore more valid frequency of bully acts based on different types of bully acts given. This limitation however raises attention to the importance of making awareness of the concept and nature of ...
Further, the antecedents to change in self-awareness and the use of compensatory strategies were examined.A longitudinal descriptive method was used with 18 adult participants and their significant others. Each pair was interviewed at 1 week, 1 month, 4 months and 1 year post-injury, using the...
Participants in the non-NSSI group didn't have suicidal plans or behavior for one month and psychiatric symptoms. DSM-5 Recommended Diagnostic Criteria: Note: The desire for relief or reactivity can be experienced during or shortly after self-harm, and the pattern of behavior exhibited by the ...
With increased awareness and efforts to improve help-seeking [6], these costs are set to rise dramatically unless effective interventions to minimise the frequency and medical severity of the behaviour are made available. Young people who self-injure carry a fourfold risk of suicidal thoughts and ...