Prevention, Safety, and First Aid

for Intentional Injuries

Concept of Intentional Injuries

 Intentional Injury

 Is deliberate, intentional, or direct injury to the body tissue.

 The most common form of self-harm is skin-cutting.
 Others forms include:
a. Burning
b. Scratching
c. Banging
d. Hitting body parts
e. Interfering with wound healing
f. Hair pulling
g. Ingestion of toxic substance or objects
Self-harm

 Is one of the symptoms of personality disorder.

a. Depression
b. Substance abuse
c. Eating disorder
d. Post- traumatic stress disorder
e. Anxiety disorders
f. Schizophrenia
g. Severe personality disorders
 Self-harm can be addressed through:

 Identify the causes or the behavior itself

 Use of depressant drugs to patients with depression
 Keep the individual busy with activities to replace the act of self-
harm
 Use safer methods that do not lead to permanent damage
 Causes of self-harm or self-injury

 Genetics – a rare genetic condition called “Lesch-Nyhan

syndrome” has distinctive characteristics which involves self-
harm that includes biting and head-banging.
 The syndrome can lead to psychological conditions like anxiety
or depression that leads to self-harming behavior.
 Use of drugs and alcohol

 The use of this is associated with self-harm.

 People who are taking drugs and alcohol lose their
normal state of mind and result to self-harm or self-
injury.
 Mental Illness

 People who are experiencing personality disorder,

bipolar disorder, depression, phobia, conduct disorder,
schizophrenia, and Munchausen syndrome have a
higher risk of self-harm.
Psychological Factors

 Child abuse, bereavement, troubled parental or partner

relationships, war, poverty, and unemployment may
contribute to self-harm.
Prevention of self-harm

 Inducing self-harm can be avoided through:

a. Maintain a healthy mind and body
b. Engage and participate actively in worthwhile activities
c. Socialized regularly
d. Live a clean, happy, healthy, and peaceful life
e. Improve spirituality
f. Handle and manage stress and problems properly