Self-injury is deemed a pathology and deviant practice that not socially sanctioned culturally accepted as soothing healing the self. The marked female body also pathologized perceived deviant; hence, having self-inflicted scars may easily lead to social stigma, shame, need hide scars. In this personal reflection I explore how can have same meaning self-injury control self act self-expression, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether deliberate self harm is associated with contemporary Goth youth subculture. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING School and community based study of young people living in the Central Clydeside Conurbation, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 1258 people aged 19, surveyed in 2002-4 and followed-up since age 11 (1994). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Lifetime prevalence of...

PURPOSE Social isolation is associated with suicidal ideation (SI) and self-harm (SH) among adolescents. However, the association between preference for solitude (PfS), SI, and SH is unknown. The prevalence of adolescents who have both of PfS and social isolation and the risks for SI and SH among them are also unknown. METHODS Information on PfS, social isolation, SI, and SH was collected in ...

Suicide occurs relatively rarely under the age of 15 years, although prevalence is likely to be underestimated because of reluctance of coroners to assign this verdict. A large proportion of open verdicts (“undetermined cause”) are, in fact, suicides. Suicide rates are far higher in male than female adolescents. Until the past five or six years in England and Wales suicide rates were rising sub...

Self-harm is a major public health problem and universal interventions such as contacting individuals by post or telephone following a self-harm episode have received much attention recently. They may also appeal to service providers because of their low cost. However, a widespread introduction of these interventions cannot be justified without a better understanding of whether they work, and i...

rehabilitation is the ongoing management of injuries and disabilities after an accident. it will help people to maximize the individuals` recovery through the relearning of skills or teaching of strategies to compensate for changed abilities. self-esteem may be one major factor related to the manner in which people with spinal cord injury (sci) respond to rehabilitation. following a short discu...

Objective This study examined the relationship between explicit and implicit measures of hopelessness self-injurious behavior (defined here as self-harming or suicidal actions thoughts). Method A community sample 267 participants completed (Beck's Hopelessness Scale a Feeling Thermometer), an measure (Hopelessness Implicit Association Test), self-report their history behavior. Results The resul...

This study investigated the relationship between experiential avoidance, coping and the recency and frequency of self-harm, in a community sample (N = 1332, aged 16-69 years). Participants completed online, self-report measures assessing self-harm, momentary affect, experiential avoidance and coping in response to a recent stressor. Participants who had self-harmed reported significantly higher...