Self-Harm Across Cultures, with Dr. Marc Wilson

<p>Are there countries, races, or ethnicities with higher or lower rates of self-injury?  How prevalent is NSSI among indigenous peoples, and what role does culture play in the form, function, and meaning of self-injury?  In this episode, Dr. Marc Wilson from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand shares about cross-cultural representations of self-injury and self-harm.  </p><p>Learn more about Dr. Wilson and his work at <a href="https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/Marc.Wilson" target="_blank">https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/Marc.Wilson</a>. Below are links to some of the research referenced in this episode:</p><ol><li>Sansone, R. A., Wiederman, M. W., & Sansone, L.A. (1998). <a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.477.3135&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">The Self-Harm Inventory (SHI): development of a scale for identifying self-destructive behaviors and borderline personality disorder</a>. <i>Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54</i>(7), 973–983.</li><li>Sansone, R. A., & Sansone, L. A. (2010). <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877617/" target="_blank">Measuring self-harm behavior with the Self-Harm Inventory</a>.<i> Psychiatry (Edgmont), 7</i>(4), 16-20.</li><li>Gratz, K. L. (2001). <a href="http://selfinjury-staging.com/perch/resources/deliberate-self-harm-inventory.pdf" target="_blank">Measurement of deliberate self-harm: Preliminary data on the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory</a>. <i>Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 23</i>(4), 253-263.</li><li>Monto, M. A., McRee, N., & Deryck, F. S. (2018). <a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304470?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Am_J_Public_Health_TrendMD_0" target="_blank">Nonsuicidal self-injury among a representative sample of US adolescents, 2015</a>. <i>American Journal of Public Health, 108</i>, 1042-1048.</li><li>Favazza, A. R. (2011).<i> Bodies under siege: Self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture