...Roos Visser; Sim Vinken; Nienke Verstegen; Vivienne de Vogel Purpose Self-injury is common in forensic psychiatric settings. Recent research offers some insights into the functions and management of self-injurious behaviour but generally focusses on either the experiences of staff or patients...

...Alice Larissa Bennett; Mark Moss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore client‐reported functions of deliberate self‐injury for prisoners located within a dangerous and severe personality disorder site. Design/methodology/approach As interviews produced in‐depth data indicating a very...

...Jen Gallagher; Kerry Sheldon The three aims of the study reported were to investigate the functions of self‐harm in a population of patients detained in the Peaks Unit at Rampton hospital, to investigate the context and nature of this behaviour and to examine how staff respond to incidents of self...