Self-harm wounds: assessment and management

The assessment and management of cavity wounds

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Psychological management following deliberate self-harm.

There are approximately 4,000 suicides in England and Wales each year. This is equivalent to one death every two hours. The overall rate of suicide in Britain has fallen slightly over recent years, but the rate among young people increased considerably during the 1980s. Suicide is now the third most common cause of death in people aged 15–30. About half those who die by suicide have a past hist...

Depression and Self-Harm Risk Assessment in Online Forums

Users suffering from mental health conditions often turn to online resources for support, including specialized online support communities or general communities such as Twitter and Reddit. In this work, we present a framework for supporting and studying users in both types of communities. We propose methods for identifying posts in support communities that may indicate a risk of self-harm, and...

Case studies: Octenilin Wound Irrigation Solution and Octenisan Wash in self-harm wounds

Drivers for self-harm are multiple and diverse; these are individual to the person concerned. Some people may have a mental illness for which harming themselves is a component, others will use it as part of every day life to ‘manage’ overwhelming emotions. The risk of infection is particularly high in the former group due to their illness and there is a need for effective prevention and managem...