Self Injury / Self Harm

UK sources of information and / or support

 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.

 LifeSIGNS - Self-Injury Guidance and Network Support

Aims to support people who are effected by Self Injurous behaviour within the United Kingdom and beyond.

 Bristol Crisis Service for Women

Provides information relating to self-injury. Offers a confidential helpline service for women in emotional distress.

 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.

Further sources / more detailed information

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.