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Management of adolescent self-harm needed to reduce suicide risk
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Child and adolescent Self-harm Suicide
9 January 2020
Children and adolescents who present to hospital following self-harm have an increased future risk of suicide compared with other children and adolescents, which may persist for several years, according to an observational study of more than 9,000 children and adolescents aged 10-18 years who presented to five English hospitals for non-fatal self-harm.
Suicide prevention: identifying and responding to suicide clusters
Mental Health Suicide
31 October 2019
This new version of a guide originally developed in 2015, is a major update, informed by experience of suicide clusters that have occurred in the community, in schools and universities, and in psychiatric settings.
Suicide prevention and intervention - World Mental Health Day
Awards Mental Health Self-harm Suicide
10 October 2019
Today, 10th October is the Thames Valley Suicide Prevention Conference in Reading from the Thames Valley Suicide Prevention and Intervention Network (SPIN). Professor Keith Hawton, Director of the Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, will be chairing the event.
Self-harm in Children and Adolescents: A Major Health and Social Problem of our Time
Mental Health Psychological therapy Self-harm Suicide
1 July 2019
In the Jack Tizard Memorial Lecture during the Association for Child and Mental Health National Conference at the Royal College of Physicians, Professor Keith Hawton, highlighted the very worrying recent increases in rates of suicide in England in older adolescents and the big rise in self-harm in young teenage females.