New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, in partnership with ...

March is Self-Harm Awareness Month, and the need for conversations about this behavior, its causes and treatments has become critically important. Recent research indicates that 70% of adolescents and ...

New research has examined the image-posting habits on social media of young people who self-harm. New research from the ...

Discussion of self-injury, eating disorders, and somatization occur in the context of culture. Self-injurious behaviors that occur across cultures can provide insight into the role and meaning of such ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

Negative parenting styles can increase risk of self-harm behavior in adolescents, while positive parenting styles can protect against it. The findings can help guide practical intervention strategies, ...

Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site’s largely underage ...

The current approach to continuous observation of patients at-risk of self-harm when on hospital wards is not effective, a healthcare safety watch dog has warned. A new report from the Health Services ...

Kwon Min-ah, a former member of the group AOA who recently confessed to attempting an extreme choice and being rescued, ...

FULTON – Virginia Bough, executive director of Friends of Recovery of Oswego County (FOROC), the county’s only non-clinical support agency for those experiencing substance use disorder, has ...

Gabapentinoid use did not appear to be linked directly to self-harm risk, a self-controlled case series showed. Self-harm risk rose before and after gabapentinoids were used, but not during the ...