This one-day workshop explores self-harm and is suitable for workers whose clients may be exhibiting self-harming behaviours. Participants will explore this complex subject that is often mistakenly seen as attempted suicide.
This workshop starts from the basic principles of understanding the issues leading to and surrounding destructive and harmful behaviours, the function of the behaviour(s) and appropriate responses. Self-harm is a relevant issue for all of those working with children and young people and is of grave concern.
The aims of this workshop are: To increase awareness and understanding of the reasons why young people may use destructive and harmful behaviours. To develop competence and identify relevant skills to enable professionals to respond confidently when presented with and in identifying self-harming behaviours.
To book contact:
Glyn Jones, Network Manager, Mid and West Wales CAMHS Commissioning Network
Vibrant Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has hit out suggestions the band's music encourages children to self harm.
The band previously come under fire over the dark imagery in some of their song lyrics, but Taylor insists the tracks do not influence impressionable youngsters.
And he understands why angst-ridden teenagers feel depressed - he suffered the same problems in his youth.
Taylor says, "If you're setting out to hurt yourself, it's not the music that's causing it. There's something else wrong. We get a lot of kids that cut themselves but I go out of my way to try and stop it.
"It may feel artistic to carve our names in your arm but to us, it's just hurting yourself. As bleak as Slipknot can be, it's supposed to be positive in the long term and the last thing we want is for anyone to hurt themselves.
"I used to be one of those kids and I always try to explain to them that I know what it's like to feel like you're the last person on Earth. All you have to do is reach out and someone will be there."
‘I can actually talk to them now’: qualitative results of an educational intervention for emergency nurses caring for clients who self-injure,Journal of Clinical Nursing, online early view, 2009
Margaret McAllister, Wendy Moyle, Stephen Billett and Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
Authors: Margaret McAllister, RN, Ed D, Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia; Wendy Moyle, RN, PhD, Professor, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Stephen Billett, PhD, Professor, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, PhD, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Correspondence to Dr Margaret McAllister, School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore,
ABSTRACT
Aim and objectives. This Australian study evaluated the effectiveness of a solution-focused education intervention in extending and improving emergency nursing responses to patients who present because of self-injury.
Background. Emergency nurses commonly report lack of training and feeling unskilled in managing people who present because of self-harm. Most educational interventions have provided content knowledge, yet rarely have they focused on conveying the value of health promotion strategies such as proactive skills and coping strategies.
Design. A mixed method pretest–posttest group design was used.
Methods. Nurses (n = 36) were interviewed to examine differences in professional identity, awareness of self-injury and clinical reasoning.
Results. The qualitative results are presented in this paper and these showed improvements in knowledge and understanding of self-harm, self-belief in nurses’ capacity to positively influence clients and the value of health promotion skills. The intervention produced a positive attitudinal shift towards clients and an expressed intention to act in ways that were more person-centred and change oriented.
Conclusions. The solution-focused education intervention appears to show promise as an intervention for enabling nurses to value their unique contribution to providing a health service that is more proactive and health-promoting.
Relevance to clinical practice. Interactive education bringing psychosocial skills to technical nursing staff builds confidence, competence and more person-focused care.
'Out of harm's way' is a DVD featuring seven short documentaries exploring the meaning of self harm and the factors which lead to recovery.
The full DVD is available to purchase from http://www.harmless.org.uk, and all proceeds from its sale will be used to provide services to people who self harm.
This is a video on self-harm I made to help those who don't understand. Please check it out and ask any questions if you have any. If there is hate comments, rude or disrespectful I will delete and block you. Below I have posted a lil more details about those who self-harm. Please take a moment to read it. http://www.recoveryourlife.com/ http://www.meetup.com/ http://www.psyke.org
SI is something I go through personally everyday of my life. I think about it all the time. Even tho the thoughts are there, most likely I'll be able to control myself & not hurt my body. Sometimes I slip & hurt myself but it shows how hard I work towards being heathly & safe. DBT is a good source to help the urges & to find safe ways to cope with the feeling.
Self-injury or self-harm is when somebody damages or injures their body on purpose. Self-injury is a way of expressing deep emotional feelings or problems that build up inside.
Cutting the skin is probably the most common form of self-injury. The cuts are not usually deep but in some cases, medical attention is needed to clean, dress or stitch the wounds. The most common places on the body to cut are the wrists, upper arms, inner thighs and upper chest. Less common are the face, breasts, abdomen and genitals.
Often people who cut themselves will use one or two methods, for example, knives, glass or razor blades. The person tends to have a certain area of the body that they prefer to cut, such as the arms.
Burning the skin (usually with cigarettes) is also common. People may also self-harm by scratching, hitting or punching, sometimes using an object. Other forms of self-injury include picking at the skin, pulling out hair, swallowing poisonous substances, taking an overdose of tablets or drugs or deliberately breaking bones.
Although, there is a connection between self-harm and suicide, the majority do not risk their lives. For many people who self-injure, their actions are only an attempt to cope with the stress and difficulties they face; their purpose is not to end their life.
However, there is a possibility that those who self-injure may commit suicide either deliberately or accidentally as the result of their actions.
Self-harm is much more common among girls than boys, often starting in adolescence (between 13 and 18 years of age), although it can affect children from as young as 11 years. Fear of discovery, shame and embarrassment often means that people keep self-injury a secret. Because of this, it is difficult to know how many people self-harm.Some people self-harm only once or a few times while others do it on a regular basis, sometimes throughout their life.
People who self-injure are very careful to hide the damage and scars. They will often injure themselves in places that can be easily hidden by clothing so friends and family members may be unaware of the person self-injuring in private. Another sign that someone could be self-harming is that the person will insist on keeping covered up at all times, even in hot weather.
People self-injure for a variety of reasons and sometimes, the person doesnt actually know why they are doing it. However, it is commonly thought to provide a release for pent-up emotions and feelings. For some people it is their way of coping with a specific problem. Self-injury is a sign of emotional distress and is not an attempt to seek attention.
People who self-harm often describe feelings of numbness or deadness or they may feel detached from reality, as if they are not part of the world. Some may injure themselves to stay separated from reality but others do it to make them feel more real, connected and alive.People who self-harm often describe feelings of numbness or deadness or they may feel detached from reality, as if they are not part of the world. Some may injure themselves to stay separated from reality but others do it to make them feel more real, connected and alive.
People who self-injure risk infections if their wounds are not treated properly. Cuts can become infected if a person uses non-sterile or dirty cutting instruments.
im a 14 year old and i started cutting about a year ago. to be honest i dont really remember why i started self harming. i think it began with me just wanting to express some emotion without having to explain myself to anyone. it was the one thing in my life that i felt like i could control. now things are going badly at school and i self harm more. i paniced and tried to find a site to get help. but then i read about all these people who were abused or close relatives and friends had died so they started self harming. that just made me fell worse because i had no real right to self harm, i had no real problem. of course i got depressed and cut myself because i was so ashamed of myself and it ended up going round in a loop. i was cutting to let out my hatred of myself, to get rid of my bad blood which made me want to cut even more. my cuts are getting deeper.
i dont really know why i left this comment i just felt like i needed to tell someone who wasnt going to come up to me the next day and ask me why i did it. thank you
Approximately 1% of the population has, at one time or another, used self-inflicted physical injury as a means of coping with an overwhelming situation or feeling. ASHIC - the American Self-Harm Information Clearinghouse - strives to increase public awareness of the phenomenon of self-inflicted violence and the unique challenges faced by self-injurers and the people who care about them.
Self-harm scares people. The behavior can be disturbing and difficult to understand, and it is often treated in a simplistic or sensational manner by the press. As a result, friends and loved ones of people who self-injure often feel frightened, isolated, and helpless. Sometimes they resort to demands or ultimatums as a way of trying to regain some control over the situation, only to see things deteriorate further.
The first step toward coping with self-injurious behavior is education: bringing reliable information about who self-injures, why they do it, and how they can learn to stop to people who self-injure and to their friends, loved ones, and medical caregivers. ASHIC was founded to meet this need for honest, accurate information.
Date:- Thursday 25th June 2009
im a 14 year old and i started cutting about a year ago. to be honest i dont really remember why i started self harming. i think it began with me just wanting to express some emotion without having to explain myself to anyone. it was the one thing in my life that i felt like i could control. now things are going badly at school and i self harm more. i paniced and tried to find a site to get help. but then i read about all these people who were abused or close relatives and friends had died so they started self harming. that just made me fell worse because i had no real right to self harm, i had no real problem. of course i got depressed and cut myself because i was so ashamed of myself and it ended up going round in a loop. i was cutting to let out my hatred of myself, to get rid of my bad blood which made me want to cut even more. my cuts are getting deeper.
i dont really know why i left this comment i just felt like i needed to tell someone who wasnt going to come up to me the next day and ask me why i did it. thank you