background : suicide is a global public health problem. deliberate self-poisoning (dsp) is one of the most common methods of suicide in many countries. this study was designed to identify the trends and characteristics of dsp in gorgan. methods: the study was carried out retrospectively in 5 azar hospital. it included 549 patients who were hospitalized in the hospital due to dsp from march 2008...

1 CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS 2-8 1.1. The Origins of Schema Therapy 1.2. Early Maladaptive Schemas 1.3. Schema Domains 1.4. Schema Perpetuation 1.5. The Schema Mode Concept 1.6. Schema Modes and the Present Doctoral Thesis 2 3 4 5 6 8 PART I: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 9-52 CHAPTER 2: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW JOURNAL ARTICLE 10-52 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION METHOD RESULTS DISCUSSION REFERENCES 12 13 16 25...

Self-enucleation represents an extreme but fortunately rare form of deliberate self-harm. Case reports of patients who self-enucleate reveal some common features. A case of auto-enucleation in a young schizophrenic patient and a short discussion on deliberate self-harm are presented.

OBJECTIVE To review the case records of patients admitted to an accident and emergency (A&E) observation ward following deliberate self harm. METHODS The hospital notes of 568 patients admitted during one year following episodes of deliberate self harm were reviewed. The study was retrospective. RESULTS The majority of these patients had taken an overdose and were between 18 and 35 years of...

Deliberate self-harm has recently begun to receive more systematic attention from clinical researchers. However, there remains a general lack of consensus as to how to define and measure this important clinical construct. There is still no standardized, empirically validated measure of deliberate selfharm, making it more difficult for research in this area to advance. The present paper provides...