Six year follow-up of a clinical sample of self-harm patients

Six year follow-up of a clinical sample of self-harm patients, Journal of Affective Disorders, Early view, 2009
Julia M.A. Sinclair, Keith Hawton and Alastair Gray

Department of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YG, UK
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Health Economics Research Centre, [...]

Why Do People Hurt Themselves?: New Insights Into the Nature and Functions of Self-Injury

Why Do People Hurt Themselves?: New Insights Into the Nature and Functions of Self-Injury, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 18(2), Pages 78 - 83
Matthew K. Nock 1 – Harvard University
 
Abstract:
ABSTRACT—Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent but perplexing behavior problem in which people deliberately harm themselves without lethal intent. Research reveals that NSSI typically has its onset during early adolescence; [...]

Assisted suicide and euthanasia: Unravelling the law

Assisted suicide and euthanasia: Unravelling the law,  ,British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Vol. 5, Iss. 3, 13 Mar 2009, pp 1 25 – 127
Bridgit Dimond
Abstract:
Bridgit Dimond considers the legal precedents and current position of the law relating to the controversial issue of the right to die.
There is considerable confusion at present in people’s minds as [...]

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm

 

Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions relevant for young offenders with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, or self-harm,  Journal of Adolescence, Early view, 2009
 

Townsend E, Walker DM, Sargeant S, Vostanis P, Hawton K, Stocker O, Sithole J.
Risk Analysis, Social Processes and Health group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG72RD, UK.
Centre for [...]

Elderly & Suicide – “Why do they become vulnerable when faced with the challenges of old age?”

“Why do they become vulnerable when faced with the challenges of old age?” Elderly people who committed suicide, described by those who knew them, International Psychogeriatrics, Early view, 2009
a3Sissel Steihaug and a2Øivind Ekeberg, c1 a1Ildri Kjølseth
SINTEF, Health Services Research, Blindern, Oslo and Helse Sør-Øst Health Services Research Centre, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norwaya3 Department of Behavioral [...]

SCOPE – Suicide and Self-Harm Behaviour in Offenders

A New Psychometric Instrument Assessing Vulnerability to Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Behaviour in Offenders: Suicide Concerns for Offenders in Prison Environment (SCOPE), International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Aug 2009; vol. 53: pp. 385 – 400.
Amanda E. Perry
University of York, UK
Abstract:
This study aimed to develop a new psychometric instrument to assess [...]

Mothers’ Awareness of Self-Harm Behaviors in Their Children

Mothers’ Awareness of Self-Harm Behaviors in Their Children, Traumatology, Vol. 14, No. 3, 22-27 (2008)
Randy A. Sansone
Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio
Abstract:
This study examined mothers’ awareness of seven self-harm behaviors in their adolescents who were being seen in an outpatient psychiatry clinic—namely, cutting self, burning self, hitting self, banging head, scratching [...]

Impact of Patient Suicide on Front-Line Staff in Ireland

Impact of Patient Suicide on Front-Line Staff in Ireland, Death Studies, Volume 33, Issue 7 August 2009 , pages 639 – 656
Paul Gaffney   et al.     HSE Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Cavan, Ireland
Abstract:

Research and anecdotal evidence suggests that coming to terms with the suicide of a patient can be extremely distressing for front-line professionals. Some [...]

Risk assessment – Most Read Article from Evidence-Based Mental Health

Risk assessment, Evidence-Based Mental Health 2005;8:91-93
G Towl
Health and Offender Partnerships/University of Birmingham, UK
Abstract:
An understanding of the concept of risk assessment is by no means exclusive to the forensic mental health field.1 However, decisions made as a product of such risk assessments in the context of mental health have fundamental ethical implications for the public, [...]

CBT as an adjunctive treatment in chronic physical illness

Cognitive–behavioural therapy as an adjunctive treatment in chronic physical illness, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2009) 15: 306-317
Judith Halford is a consultant in liaison psychiatry and psychotherapy with the Ayrshire & Arran Liaison Psychiatry Service based at Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock. Her work includes using cognitive–behavioural therapy in the treatment of general hospital patients. Tom Brown is [...]

Anger and depression

Anger and depression, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2009) 15: 271-278
Fredric N. Busch is Clinical Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His publications and research have focused on the links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, including psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, psychoanalytic [...]