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Media & Self-Harm: What Helps, What Harms?, with Dr. Nicholas Westers

In this episode, host and producer of The Psychology of Self-Injury podcast, Dr. Nicholas Westers, shares his own thoughts about how media portray nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) as well as suicide and mass shootings. He walks us through media guidelines for responsibly reporting and depicting each in the news, including the first ever NSSI media guidelines he published with ISSS colleagues. This marks the second solo episode of the podcast.

Media Guidelines:

Suicide: Read the suicide reporting guidelines published by the World Health Organization (WHO) here, learn about ethical reporting…

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