Resources

Related Learning

This educational resource is one of three such resources and you can access the other two via the following linked images:

Online Resources

Title/link Description

Project Protocol (website)

BMJ Open online journal: Our Care through Our Eyes’: a mixed-methods, evaluative study of a service-user, co-produced education programme to improve inpatient care of children and young people admitted following self-harm

Project Report (website)

Final Report 2016: A service-user co-produced digital education programme for acute hospital nurses to improve the care of children and young people that self-harm.

MindEd

MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults.

NHS Choices

NHS Choices is the UK's biggest health website. It provides a comprehensive health information service to help put patients in control of their healthcare. The website helps them to make choices about their health, from decisions about lifestyle, such as smoking, drinking and exercise, to finding and using NHS services in England.

YoungMinds

YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. YoungMinds Parents' Helpline: 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm) or email parents@youngminds.org.uk

Care Pathways

Care Pathways links through to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) website and provides an excellent overview on self-harm.

Glossary

  • CYP - Children and Young people.

  • CAMHS - 'Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services'. An NHS service that offer assessment and treatment when children and young people have emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties.

  • Self-harm - Self-harm has been defined by NICE as 'self-poisoning or self-injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act'.

  • Self-injury - This occurs when somebody injures their own body.

  • Self-poisoning - This occurs when someone takes more than the recommended dosage of a medicine, takes a large amount of illegal drugs or swallows poisonous substances or objects.

  • NSSI - An acronym sometimes used in medical notes meaning 'Non-suicidal self-injury'.

Books

Baker, C. (Ed.). (2013). Our Encounters with Self-Harm. Chicago.

DescriptonThis book contains stories of direct experience of self-harm. This will be of great benefit to those interested to those studying and practising in the field of mental health.

McDougall, T., Armstrong, M., & Trainor, G. (2010). Helping children and young people who self-harm: An introduction to self-harming and suicidal behaviours for health professionals. Routledge.

DescriptonThis book provides clear, evidence-based practical guidance for health professionals and other members of the children's workforce who manage self-harm cases.

Credits

Content authors: Asam Latif, Joseph Manning and Tim Carter

Contributors: Janine Smith, Angela Horsley, Jamie Crew, Joanne Cooper, Damian Wood, David Clark, Gemma Robbins, Leanne Harvey, Paula Dawson, Laura Holliday, Marie Armstrong and Patrick Callaghan

Project Mentor: Heather Wharrad

Project Developers: Aaron Fecowycz, James Henderson, Lydia Jones and Michael Taylor

We gratefully acknowledge support from members of Nottingham Youth Theatre: Bronwen Pole, Theo Swan and Alistair Conquer

The project was funded by the Burdett Trust and a special thank you goes to the Burdett Trust and Nottingham Children's Hospital

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