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HEALING 101: Understanding self-harm with Dr. Martina Di Simplicio

Season 4, Ep. 24
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On today’s HEALING 101, I am speaking with Dr Martina Di Simplicio is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the West London Mental Health Trust. On today’s episode we are focusing on self-harm in all it’s different forms, I question Martina on why the rates are rising so rapidly, what treatment can be offered to people who self harm and if there are any trends amongst people that tend to self harm. We also discuss interventions such as the IMAGINATOR app for episodic stimulation based self-harm reduction which was built together with an advisory group of young people with lived experience of self harm. Though this might sound like a sombre topic, it’s a very important one and I hope you learn as much as I did.


More information on Martina: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.di-simplicio


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