Suicide and self-injury: psychosocial perspectives
According to the World Health Organization more than 700,000 people each year — or one person every 40 seconds — die by suicide. Research suggests that for each adult who dies by suicide there may be 20 others who have attempted it or engaged in a form of self-harm.
Suicide accounts for around 1.3% of all deaths worldwide, with Low- and Middle-Income countries accounting for over 75%. Globally, suicide is ranked the 17th leading overall cause of death; alarmingly, among young adults it ranks fourth. The rate of suicide deaths for men is more than double that for women; yet sex disparity is uneven across regions, with a male-to-female ratio ranging from as low as 1.4 in the South-East Asia to nearly 4.0 in the Americas.
The wide variations in suicide and self-harm rates around the world is the product of many complex factors: the availability and quality of mental health provision and treatment clearly plays a role; as do recognition and understanding of suicide, ethnocultural and socioeconomic issues.
This Collection provides a forum for sociological and psychological perspectives on suicide and non-suicidal self harm.
We invite original research (qualitative and quantitative), theoretical and conceptual papers, systematic reviews, and case studies primarily from anthropology, sociology, human geography, demography, and psychological science. We are also open to non-psycho-sociocentric perspectives from allied fields such as philosophy and the medical humanities. Research from the clinical sciences, psychiatry, neuroscience or nursing will not be considered in scope.
Scholarship on the following — as well as related areas — is welcomed:
- Conceptual and theoretical framing of suicide and non-suicidal self-harm
- Cross-cultural, ethnoracial, demographic, and comparative perspectives
- Predictors and risk factors (e.g., socioeconomic factors, social environment, etc)
- Relational, behavioural, communicative and interactional dimensions
- Role of technology/cyberspace in prevention and exacerbation
- Youth suicide/self-harm
- Prevention strategies (e.g., health care provision, education and awareness, etc).
- Suicidal ambivalence and/or suicide decision
Submitting a paper for consideration
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. On the first page of our online submission system, please select your article type from the drop down menu. When on the “details” tab, you will be presented with the option to select which Collection your article should be submitted to. Authors should also express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.
Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
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