The projects listed below are in progress. If you have a research project that you would like added please email us by clicking the link below.
Bar-Ilan University
Research on early attachment and subsequent self-harm.
Brent Centre for Young People
Service for adolescents aged 14 to 21 who self-harm.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women Research
A national helpline for women in distress, in particular those who self-harm.
Carmarthenshire County Council
Setting up a special interest group on self harm and developing an Accident and Emergency Department protocol.
Cheshire CAMHS
Deliberate self harm protocol to assess risk among 0 to 16 year-olds.
Columbia University
The Columbia Teen Screen Program was developed to identify mood disorders and suicidality in high-school students.
Flemish Suicide Prevention Center
Youth suicide and self harm prevention programme with helpline and information service.
Glasgow Care Leavers Partnership
Glasgow Care Leavers Partenership
Great Yarmouth and Waverley Mind
Research into self-harm
Greater Glasgow Health Board
Nurse led adolescent self-harm service.
Griffith University
Study to explore self-harm amongst gay men.
Group Analytic and Systemic Workshops
Group analysts provide workshops, lectures and seminars in relation to self-harming behaviours (especially cutting) in adolescent residential settings.
HM Prison Service
Devised programme for young male offenders who self-harm or who are the victims of bullying.
Leiden University
Research in the field of adolescent sucidal behaviour.
Loughborough Youth Affairs
One-to-one youth support work, mainly with young women who self harm.
Luton CAMHS
Dissertation on children and young people who self harm and the resources available within the country.
National Suicide Research Foundation
A research unit developed to monitor trends in suicide in Ireland which also monitors deliberate self-harm in southern and mid western boards as part of the WHO multicentre study on parasuicide.
North Birmingham Mental Trust
Self harm policy
North Eastern Health Board
An audit of protocol in respect of admissions to an acute hospital of patients with deliberate self harm, and a national study of suicide.
North Lanarkshire Psychological Service
Member of North Lanarkshire multi-agency group looking at suicide, self-harm and mental health issues of young people in this authority.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust
Consultant nurse led self-harm service, providing hospital assessments and short-term follow up work. Developed self-harm service guidelines, audit report, consultation service, research projects and teaching and training.
Pierre J. Tremblay
Making information available worldwide about the likely over-representation of homosexually oriented children and youth in self-harm and suicide.
Prison Service / Community
Prison Service
Roehampton University
Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence: an Educational Response.
Samaritans Research
Youth projects in schools.
Youth pack for schools.
Smith College
PhD topic on self-mutilation among college women in USA
South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
a) HIRAP (High Risk Adolescent Project) b) Adolescent team for teenagers taking overdoses.
Standing Ground Helpline
Standing Ground Helpline for adult survivors of abuse in North and mid Wales. The helpline aims to support adult survivors of any type of abuse living in North Wales. The abuse may be happening now or when the caller was a child.
Unit for Suicide Research - University of Gent
Research projects on suicidal behaviour.
University Mental Health Centre
The centre offers outpatient psychotherapy and psychiatric care for adolescents and young adults in risk for suicidal behaviour or after attempted suicide. Also, the centre participates in the suicide prevention project of the Flemish mental health centres.
University of Adelaide
Research into the prevention and understanding of suicidal behaviour.
University of Central England (UCE)
Managing the needs of children and adolescents who self harm
University of Southampton
A research study involving a systematic analysis of deliberate self-harm in the reduction of tension.
University of Southampton
Research project to develop a treatment intervention for self-harm based on its addictive nature.
