Responding to young people who disclose self-harm

This article is a research summary of the following source: Pierret ACS, Anderson JK, Ford TJ et al. (2020) Review: Education and training interventions, and support tools for school staff to adequately respond to young people who disclose self-harm - a systematic literature review of effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 27(2): 161–172.    Introduction Schools are well positioned to identify and intervene with students who self-harm, with school staff frequently the first to uncover concerning behaviours (Berger et al., 2014a). Self-harm is defined as intentional injury of one’s body which may or may not be associated with suicidal intent (Nock and Favazza, 2009). There is a significantly higher risk of adverse non-fatal and fatal outcomes in young people who self-harm (Hawton et al., 2012), including substance misuse disorder, future self-harm and mental illness (Mars et al., 2014; Morgan et al., 2017).  Concerns a