Självskadebeteende är relativt vanligt förekommande bland personer med psykisk ohälsa. Återhämtning är ett begrepp som beskriver hur en person kan återerövra och finna kvalitet i sitt liv trots svår sjukdom. Självskadebeteende innebär ett stort lidande för individen och påverkar närstående i personens omgivning negativt. Syftet med denna...
Published in Digital Health
Objective The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility (uptake, retention and adherence) and acceptability of a combination of smartphone apps to deliver a digitized safety plan, BeyondNow, and personalized management strategies, BlueIce , with adolescents discharged from a mental health inpatient ward following self-harm, suicidal ideation a...
Published in International journal of geriatric psychiatry
To assess associations between physical, mental, and social well-being and suicide and self-harm in a community-based sample of older adults. Using a cohort design, questionnaire data from 102,880 individuals aged 65 years or older living in New South Wales, Australia during 2006-2009 were linked to hospital and cause-of-death databases until 2017....
Published in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Emergency departments (EDs) offer opportunities to deliver critical frontline suicide prevention services via assessment, safety planning, and linkages with community-based mental health care after discharge. Because mental health crises can occur at any time, this study sought to evaluate whether around-the-clock mental health staffing in the ED i...
Published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Deliberate self-harm is common during adolescence and can have detrimental consequences for the well-being of adolescents. Although it is sometimes difficult to engage adolescents in traditional psychotherapies for deliberate self-harm, SMS text messaging has been shown to be promising for cost-effective and low-intensity interventions. ...
Published in Wellcome open research
The author, a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in the UK NHS, ponders the varied impacts of 'lockdown' on adolescents, their parents and the psychotherapists who work with them, during the COVID-19 pandemic. She asks, particularly, how psychological therapies are positioned during such a crisis, and whether the pressures ...
Published in BJPsych Open
Background Worldwide suicide is commonest in young people and in many countries, including the UK, suicide rates in young people are rising. Aims To investigate the stresses young people face before they take their lives, their contact with services that could be preventative and whether these differ in girls and boys. Method We identified a 3-year...
Published in The South African Journal of Psychiatry : SAJP : the Journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa
Background Little is known about the methods of deliberate self-harm (DSH) in South Africa (SA), despite the importance of means restriction as a public health strategy to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with self-harm. Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the range of methods used in DSH and identify the socio-demographic and...
Published in Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in India. Agrochemicals are the most commonly used compounds for DSH. The spectrum of Agrochemicals in use varies from region to region and time period with newer compound being regularly introduced into the market. Methodology: This retrospective cohort ...
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
This study examined differences between young people with mental illness who engage in deliberate self-harm with and without suicidal intent, as well as socio-demographic and clinical factors that are related to the increased likelihood of suicide attempt amongst self-harming young people. A total of 235 outpatients with mental illness who had enga...
