Description

By Bruce Wallace

ISBN: 978-1-84991-765-0
Published: 2012
Pages: 200
Key Themes: Mental Health, Self-Harm, Injury, Study

Description

Self-harm injury is something that impinges on the lives of a significant number of people. It has become an issue that now attracts a range of attitudes and assumptions, not all of which are positive.

Despite the vast amount of information that is now available through a range of different sources there is still a limited understanding of what self-harm injury represents and how people who self-harm injure should be most effectively supported.

Differences that exist in the acknowledgement of what self-harminjury is, why people engage in it and how they should be supported include