Self-Injury in Schools (Re-Release)
How can schools appropriately respond to students who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), whether the behavior occurs at home, on school grounds, or elsewhere? What protocols exist to support sc...
30 Jan 48min
What Role Does Blood Play in Self-Injury?, with Dr. Christian Schmahl
In this episode, Dr. Christian Schmahl from Heidelberg University and Mannheim, Germany, answers a listener's question and talks about his experimental research assessing how seeing blood affects hear...
25 Dec 202541min
Media & Self-Harm: What Helps, What Harms?, with Dr. Nicholas Westers
In this episode, host and producer of The Psychology of Self-Injury podcast, Dr. Nicholas Westers, shares his own thoughts about how media portray nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) as well as suicide and...
21 Nov 202553min
Trauma and Self-Injury, with Dr. Rachel Zelkowitz
In this episode, Dr. Rachel Zelkowitz defines trauma and its prevalence among individuals who self-injure, delineates posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from complex PTSD (C-PTSD), and discusses com...
31 Okt 202550min
Parenting with Lived Experience of Self-Injury, with Dr. Janis Whitlock
Two topics are covered in this episode: (1) how parents with lived experience of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can navigate conversations with their children about their own scarring and wounds, and ...
26 Sep 202553min
DSM Update: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Disorder, or a Clinical Specifier?
In this episode, four of the top experts in researching and treating nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) talk about the research behind NSSI Disorder, the evolution of how they now think about NSSI within ...
29 Aug 20251h 3min
Help-Seeking for Self-Injury, with Nani Kim, RN
In this episode, Nani Kim, RN from the University of Texas at Austin talks all things help-seeking for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). This includes common reasons people give for choosing to seek hel...
25 Juli 202547min
Why Do People Self-Injure? Part 2, with Dr. Kirsty Hird
Dr. Kirsty Hird, a Research Officer in the Youth Mental Health team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, adds to Episode 1 of The Psychology of Self-Injury podcast by explaining in depth and in l...
27 Juni 202542min
