Participatory Action Research in the Development and Delivery of Self-Harm Awareness Sessions in Prison. Involving Service Users in Staff Training

The issue of self-harm is of great public concern
and subsequently much researched. Self-harm in
prisons is an equally relevant topic of examination
given the rates of self-harm in custody, especially
amongst women in prison. This substantial body
of literature has forwarded theories of the
functions of and risk factors for self-harm
interventions and methods of ‘managing’ self-harm,
the attitudes of healthcare staff to self-harm
and how such attitudes impact upon
treatment in a prison setting