PUSH Parents understanding self harm

PUSH Parents understanding self harm Parents who want to understand the cause and know how to help our children who self-harm.

30/05/2023

I hear often from doctors and other professionals "oh they will grow out of it", well that's good and I look forward to that. However, let's talk more about now. This is where the room goes silent.

30/05/2023

The below is taken from a recent study at UNSW Australia and offers some hope in intervention. However please just be aware that at this stage young people are most at risk of self in the first few months of presenting at hospital. (Dr Tye UNSW).
Remember together we can help our kids and ourselves.

Routine psychosocial assessments and follow-ups with patients may help reduce the risk of repeat self-harm and su***de death over the long term. But the heightened risk in the first month following a self-harm episode also indicates a need for more immediate patient support.

“Ideally, all young people should have access to ongoing support through coordinated aftercare approaches, particularly in those first few weeks after their presentation to hospital, to protect against repeat self-harm,” Dr Tye says.

Dr Qian says developing new insights into how to respond effectively to self-harm will help su***de prevention efforts. There is an increasingly critical need to learn from children and adolescents who are presenting for self-harm to hospital to help researchers better understand intervention opportunities, guide service provision and improve clinical management.

“Because we’re better able to identify young people who self-harm from hospital records, rather than in the community, we have an opportunity to engage with them to help us understand how we can develop better preventative strategies and find new opportunities for intervention,” Dr Qian says.

30/05/2023

Hi everyone, welcome to PUSH Parents understanding self harm, we have created this page due to the low level of information and research available out there that can help us to understand and support our children who are plagued by self harm.
We want this page to be a help and somewhere where we can come together to be informed, support, discuss and even just rant about the struggle of parenting children who self-harm.
We don't need judgement, goodness we have done enough of that to ourselves to last many lifetimes. We just need to understand so we can walk this road with our kids.
The page is public at the moment to get the word out, but we will be making it private, so people feel safe to speak about their particular struggles.
Notice that the profile pic is a sunrise over the mountains, that indicates help is out there, but it is going to be a climb to help our kids overcome this. So please join me as we walk this road together and begin to understand this epidemic, so we can keep our kids safe long enough to get the help they need. Also so we can keep ourselves sane long enough to feel the warm sun.

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