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Scales of failure: mental health services and self-harm
Reflections on the CVNI conference and the weight of knowledge I was recently at a two-day meeting of lived-experience experts and service user/survivor researchers in mental health. The event, organised by the Critical Voices Network Ireland was energising, exciting, and...
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Self-Harm: Response and Reaction
Self-harm is clinically referred to as Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. It is described as an act which causes direct harm to the body but one where the focus is harm itself and not some other goal. Research into self-harm over the last...
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Self harm care: A community consultation