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Self-harm: Parents' experiences

  • Overview
  • Why do young people self-harm?
    • What parents and carers think are the reasons for self-harm
    • Young people’s explanations of self-harm
    • Mental health problems and self-harm
    • Family history of mental health problems
    • Influence of friends and peers on self-harm
    • Influence of the internet and social media on self-harm
  • Finding out that a young person in your family is self-harming
    • Discovering self-harm
    • Emotional reactions to self-harm
    • Talking about self-harm with the young person
    • Looking for information, help and support about self-harm
    • Telling other people about self-harm
    • Telling others – reactions of family and friends to self-harm
  • Living with self-harm
    • Managing self-harm - practical responses
    • Fears and worries about self-harm
    • Impact of self-harm on parents and carers
    • Impact of self-harm on siblings
    • Effects of self-harm on the family
    • Shame, stigma and taboo of self-harm
  • Experiences of support and treatment
    • Going to the GP about self-harm
    • Emergency hospital treatment and other services for self-harm
    • Mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment for self-harm
    • Mental health services for self-harm - community
    • Mental health services for self-harm - hospital
    • Mental health services - involvement of families
    • Personal strategies to help the self-harming young person
    • Medication for young people self-harming
    • School's role in helping young people who self-harm
    • Support for parents and carers dealing with self-harm
  • Looking ahead
    • Towards recovery from self-harming
    • Thoughts about the future
    • Messages to health services and schools about self-harm
    • Messages to other parents and carers about self-harm
  • People's Profiles
    • Mothers & daughters
    • Fathers
    • Mothers and sons
    • Partners
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Self-harm: Parents' experiences

Profiles - Partners

Audrey

Audrey is 30 years old, married with two children. She works as a manager in a bookmaker’s. Ethnic background: White Scottish.

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