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Current Awareness Bulletin

  The CEBMH’s e-CAB is a fortnightly bulletin containing selected news items on mental health issues, including clinical news, health and social care guidance, policy and publications.
An easy way to keep up-to-date in Mental Health.

Child suicide bids rise to more than 4,000

Child suicide bids rise to more than 4,000 16th December 2007 Observer newspaper
Children’s Secretary calls for greater vigilance to spot those at risk
More than 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, according to NHS figures that show the scale of distress and mental suffering in the young.
There is a [...]

Self Harm Hits the Headlines

Self-harm: ‘I cut myself to feel better’ Telegraph, 17th December 2007
  Middle-class girls under pressure are increasingly among the one in 15 young people who engage in self-harm. Glenda Cooper reports on what experts fear is the ‘new anorexia’
Tor’s story is told in ‘Born Survivors – Cut Up Kids’ tonight  18th December 2007 on BBC3 at 10.30pm