Self-harm and Suicide

Last updated 21 February 2020

This collection of Research Digests about Self-Harm and Suicide contains content from ACAMH’s two main academic outputs the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

You can download a PDF of these Digests from the July 2018 edition of The Bridge.

Individual digests are presented below in date order, with the most recent first.

How effective are tools to help school staff better respond to young people who self-harm?
What are the characteristics of arguments that precede youth suicide?
Environmental factors linked with identifying as a sexual minority may increase suicidality risk
Are children of any age susceptible to suicidal behaviour?
Does having both ADHD and irritability symptoms in childhood predict mental health outcomes in adolescence?
Online self-harm content might provide peer support to young people
Do cybervictimization and face-to-face victimization affect suicide ideation risk in the same way?
A history of abuse increases the risk of suicide attempts in youth
Is neurocognitive functioning linked to a family history of a suicide attempt?
Who can best support young people who self-harm?
DBT-A can enhance emotion regulation in ethnic minority youth
Suicidal ideation in children: is it written all over their face?
Social cohesion and integration in schools reduces suicidal behaviour rate
Social connectedness and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents
Continued family dysfunction accounts for the association between childhood adversity and adolescent self-harm
Childhood maltreatment increases suicide risk despite strong neuropsychological functioning
Individual changes in stress-level predict non-suicidal self-injury
Social connectedness is a protective factor against short-term suicide attempts (post discharge) in school children
DBT is effective for youth with high levels of emotion dysregulation
DBT-A reduces self-harming behaviours by improving feelings of hopelessness
Family-focused CBT is not superior to enhanced treatment-as-usual in reducing suicide attempts
Long-term youth suicide prevention programs can have sustained effects
Low parental belongingness increases suicidal ideation risk
Inflammation does not mediate an adverse childhood experience– self-harm risk association
Machine learning approach predicts suicide risk
Violent self-harm may predict subsequent suicide
Navigating an unfamiliar world: how parents of young people that self-harm experience support and treatment
Suicide risk in the young: what, how and who to study
The family environment mediates risk of self-harming
Clinical characteristics of adolescents referred for treatment of depressive disorders
Self-Harm: The Parent’s View

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