Nearly half of the young people who present to hospital with self-harm are not given essential psychosocial evaluations

Nearly half of the young people who present to hospital with self-harm are not given essential psychosocial evaluations: Last September I blogged about a cohort study in the Lancet that highlighted the links between self-harm and poor physical health. This same dataset (drawn from over 30,000 patients from 6 hospitals in Oxford, Manchester and Derby from 2000-7) has now spawned a longitudinal study published in the European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry journal. This [read the full story...] The Mental Elf