In this article, the author provides a practice-friendly guide to the psychological assessment of self-injury, such as self-inflicted cutting, burning, hitting, and excoriation of wounds. The crucial distinction between self-injury and suicide is emphasized. The author presents a structure for the assessment of self-injury that focuses first on the therapeutic relationship, and thereafter on th...

OBJECTIVE To understand self-injury and its correlates in the Australian population. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Cross-sectional survey, using computer-assisted telephone interview, of a representative sample of 12,006 Australians from randomly selected households. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Data on demographics, self-injury, psychiatric morbidity, substance use, suicidality, disclosure and...

OBJECTIVES The assessment of differences in body self and pain thresholds between people inflicting self-injuries in a repetitive manner and those, who do not engage in such behavior. METHODS The participants were selected through screening and purposive sampling (the study group consisted of 34 people: 29 women, 5 men; and the control group of 32 people: 28 women, 4 men). The Tension Situati...

Psychiatric patients may try (or express a desire) to injure themselves in hospital in order to cope with overwhelming emotional pain. Some health care practitioners and patients propose allowing a controlled amount of self-injury to occur in inpatient facilities, so as to prevent escalation of distress. Is this approach an example of professional assistance with harm? Or, is the approach more ...

There are currently no national registers in England, Scotland and Wales and the national monitoring system in Ireland is in the early stages of development. Epidemiological studies have historically relied on monitoring systems in accident and emergency (A&E) departments or in psychiatric services, but gathering accurate data from either source is difficult. These methods fail to account for p...

objective: self-harm was classified to show forms like non-suicidal self injury and indirect risky behaviors and drug abuse. the aims of this study were to compare suicidal tendencies indexes and difficulty in emotion regulation skills in mixed groups of adolescents with direct and indirect forms of self-harm. methods: in a casual-comparative design from population of delinquent adolescents det...

BACKGROUND The present study compared sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities with substance use, and impulsivity features in three groups of psychiatric patients - suicide attempters, nonsuicidal self-injury, and nonsuicidal without self-injury - to determine the predictive factors for nonsuicidal self-injury or suicide behavior. PATIENTS AND METHODS Demographic features and self-rep...

Few risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been identified. This study investigated diminished aversion toward self-injury (i.e., NSSI, suicide/death stimuli) and self-criticism as unique NSSI risk factors. After terminating a treatment study, 154 adults with a recent and frequent NSSI history completed self-report and computer-based measures of psychopathology, implicit and expli...

Self-injury without conscious suicidal intent is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon particularly among adolescent populations. This pilot study examined the extent and correlates of self-injurious behaviour in a school population sample of 393 adolescents (aged 13-18 years) using a self-report questionnaire. Specifically, we aimed to determine whether personality was related to self-injury an...