Self-Harm: A Guide to Management

Self-harm is extremely common with up to a quarter of young people reporting at least one episode. This book explains what self-harm is, and who is most likely to self-harm and why. It covers approaches to self-management and outlines the main interventions (online or in-person) aimed at prevention or treatment.

Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana and President, Association for Suicide Prevention Ghana (GASP), Accra, Ghana.,Allan House, Emeritus Professor of Liaison Psychiatry Leeds Institute of Health Sciences Worsley Building , UK

Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Accra. Nii is a Community and Applied Health Psychologist with a BA in Psychology with Sociology (University of Ghana, Accra), MPhil in Human Development - Community Psychology track - (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim), and PhD in Psychological Sciences (University of Leeds, UK). His research focuses on adolescent self-harm and suicide in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2021 he was awarded the De Leo Fund Award (International Association for Suicide Prevention), for outstanding research on suicidal behaviours carried out in developing countries: https://www.iasp.info/awards/

Allan House graduated in medicine from St Bartholomews Hospital London. He undertook early career posts in hospital medicine before training in psychiatry in Nottingham. After research in Oxford into the psychiatric consequences of stroke, he moved in 1989 to an NHS consultant post in liaison psychiatry at the General Infirmary, Leeds. He was appointed professor of liaison psychiatry in 1999, moving to work fulltime in the university in 2005. As well as teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, he has researched and published in many areas of liaison psychiatry including mental health aspects of physical illness, medically-unexplained syndromes and self-harm.