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Young People and Self-Harm
This site is a key information resource for young people who self-harm, their friends and families, and for professionals working with them. This site is published by NCB, a nationally recognised authority on policy, research and best practice relating to children and young people in England and Northern Ireland.
Self Harm: A self help guide
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust provide a range of patient information, including one in this area.
FirstSIGNS - Self-Injury Guidance and Network Support
Aims to support people who are effected by Self Injurous behaviour within the United Kingdom and beyond.
National Self Harm Network
Their priority is to support survivors and people who self-harm. They also support the people it indirectly affects, like family and friends, who can discuss the issue and gain effective support in their forums.
Self-Harm Responding helpfully and safely to a child or young person who is self-harming
Information from HandsOnScotland
Introduction to Mental Health
Directgov is the website of the UK government for its citizens, providing information and online services for the public all in one place. They provide a wide range of information including one in this area.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women
Provides information relating to self-injury. Offers a confidential helpline service for women in emotional distress.
Scotland's Mental Health First Aid
This website gives details of a training course which will teach you what to do if someone is having a crisis with their mental health and also how to look after your own mental well-being. Their website gives details of times, locations and what the course involves.
SIARI (Self-Injury & Related Issues)
An online resource for self-injurers, and for anyone interested in self-injury. Extensive input from self-injurers. Site maintained by Jan Sutton, author of Healing the Hurt Within: Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Have produced a guideline on self harm which includes information for the general public.
National Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People
The Inquiry is the UK's first major investigation of a complex and misunderstood issue that appears to affect 1 in 10 young people in the UK.The Inquiry was launched on 30 March 2004. Anyone - whether an individual or an agency - can supply evidence to the Inquiry.
Self-harm: what, who, why and how to help
Information leaflet produced by the British Psychological Society regarding Self-harm.
Harmless
Harmless is a user led organisation that provides support, information, training and consultancy to people who self harm, their friends and families and professionals.
Mental Health Foundation
The Mental Health Foundation provides factsheets aimed at improving the understanding of self harm.
Althea Park Specialist Services
A well-established and well-knownprovider of residential treatment, care and education to both adolescentand adult clients with eating disorders and related problems, in particular deliberate self-injury and personality issues.
Newcombe House
A specialist provider of residential treatment foryoung adolescent females aged 13-18 years with self injurious behaviour.
Medicine Guide for Self-Harming Behaviour
Provides detailed information about the drugs available to treat this condition. Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines, conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.
Self-harm
Information from BUPA.
Self-injury
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
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Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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