Table 1 The definition of deliberate self-harm employed by the child and adolescent self-harm in Europe group
An act with a non-fatal outcome in which an individual deliberately did one or more of the following: |
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   - Initiated behaviour (for example, self-cutting, jumping from a height), which they intended to cause self-harm; |
   - Ingested a substance in excess of the prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dose; |
   - Ingested a recreational or illicit drug that was an act that the person regarded as self-harm; |
   - Ingested a non-ingestible substance or object. |