Self-harm and Suicide

Worldwide, 10-20% of young people report having self-harmed at least once before the age of 18, and self-harm is one of the strongest risk factors for completed suicide. Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for young people globally, and therefore predictors such as self-harm are of great importance.

2019 Judy Dunn National Conference ‘Suicide and self-harm in young people’ – Prof. Christian Schmahl

The 2019 Judy Dunn Conference focused on ‘Suicide and self-harm in young people’. Prof. Christian Schmahl on the ‘Neurobiology of self-harm in BPD’. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture. Simply email membership@acamh.org with the day and time you watch it, so we can check the analytics, and we’ll email you your certificate.

9 November 2019

In Conversation… Suicide and Self-harm with Dr Abigail Russell

Abigail discusses her paper on inflammation and self-harm, its findings and implications moving forward. As well as the cohort study (ALSPAC), to school interventions and creating change through national dialogue.

26 September 2019

Inflammation does not mediate an adverse childhood experience– self-harm risk association

Inflammation has been proposed to be a candidate mechanism contributing to the association between exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the risk of self-harm. In the first study of its kind, researchers in the UK have now directly studied whether inflammatory processes do indeed mediate this association.

12 September 2019

Suicide and Self-harm National Conference

Dr. Dennis Ougrin explains more about his session at our National Conference on Suicide and Self Harm.

10 September 2019

Biological explanations of links between childhood adversity and later self-harm: a focus on inflammation – Dr. Abigail Russell

Dr. Abigail Russell at the launch of the JCPP Special issue 2019 – Suicide and self-harm. Abby looks at ‘Biological explanations of links between childhood adversity and later self-harm: a focus on inflammation’

9 September 2019

In Conversation… Suicide and Self-harm with Professor David Cottrell

David discusses school-based interventions, recent studies on prevention/intervention and (SHIFT), a large multi-centre randomised controlled trial, investigating systemic family therapy following teenage self-harm.

9 September 2019

How to reduce self-harm in young people – Professor David Cottrell

Professor David Cottrell at the launch of the JCPP Special issue 2019 – Suicide and self-harm. David looks at ‘How to reduce self-harm in young people – Challenges for future research’

9 September 2019

Self-Harm: The Parent’s View

Though it is not always openly discussed, the impact self-harm has on the individual and their family, can be very distressing. For someone to recover from ‘rock-bottom’ requires support, with family being an obvious source. It makes sense that the pillars of this support system, parents in most cases, feel equipped to support their child in recovering from such an experience. Saying this, there is little research on parents’ perspective of care following self-harm.

10 November 2017

Online self-harm content might provide peer support to young people

Youth today find themselves living in an era of social media, with easy access to a wide range of social networking sites. Unfortunately, emerging evidence suggests that some social technologies might cause more harm than good to some young people’s mental health.1,2

11 September 2020