Cases of teenagers “sexting” each other have recently provoked panicked responses by media, parents, educators and policy makers in Australia. Now a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the practice has…
Self-harm is a response to emotions that feel intolerable and unbearable to young people who aren’t yet equipped to deal with them.
Gareth Williams
By George Patton, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
A study published today in the Lancet shows that while self-harm is relatively common among teenagers, most young people will naturally stop hurting themselves as they develop biologically and emotionally…
