Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is alarmingly common among teenagers and young adults around the globe. Over the past decade, the statistics on the prevalence of NSSI have varied from study-to-study.

A meta-analysis of 38 studies found that nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is twice as prevalent in female teenagers as it is in men in North America and Europe but not in Asia. The study, led by Fiona ...

Self-embedding is an extreme form of self-injury, in which people (typically adolescents) insert objects into their body parts to deliberately hurt themselves or mutilate their bodies without ...

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A recent study by the Medical University of Vienna shows that adolescents with a history of non-suicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSI) show increased attention to images of self-harm on social media.

Signs that an individual might be on the verge of self-harm are often found in their online actions, but can word choices in posts indicate who is at particular risk and when? A study published in the ...

A research team led by Professor Hyun Ghang Jeong from the Department of Psychiatry at Korea University College of Medicine (Korea University Guro Hospital), in collaboration with the research team at ...

For many parents, discovering self-harm feels like the ground suddenly shifting beneath their feet. On Reddit parenting threads, moms have shared feeling “rather helpless,” “worried that if I take her ...