“Sex, age, and race and ethnicity are important dimensions of social identity and intersect to shape a person’s vulnerability to self-harm. By looking at these subgroups, we were able to see a ...

Self-harm, or self-mutilation, is the act of deliberately inflicting pain and damage to one's own body. Self-harm most often refers to cutting, burning, scratching, and other forms of external ...

social-media use can lead to devastating consequences. In September 2022, for instance, a London coroner’s inquest found that 14-year-old Molly Russell “died from an act of self-harm whilst ...

In Ireland, rates of self-harm among teenagers increased by 22% between 2007 and 2016. In the UK, the government’s response to the recession was to impose austerity measures. This resulted in cuts to ...

Who can diagnose self-harm? Psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed therapists, psychiatric social workers, counselors, and other qualified mental health professionals can assess a person for self ...

As social media use has risen, so have self-reports and clinical diagnoses among adolescents of anxiety and depression, along with emergency room visits for self-harm and suicidal ideation. Murthy’s ...