Ways the damaging effects of self-harm can be reduced are:
- Reducing the frequency of self-harm
- Making smaller or less severe injuries
- Using different instruments and making sure they're sterile
- Redirecting behaviors to less damaging but still stimulating ones like holding ice or eating spicy foods
- Assembling a first-aid kit
- Joining a support group

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Risk management is the process of identifying harmful outcomes and incorporating or reducing certain behavioral patterns to keep at-risk individual safe and mitigate damage. Managing inherently risky behaviors is a long-term process, but the goal is to cease them completely in a way that is achievable for those struggling to stop self-harming.

Risk Management of Self-Harm

Woodley, S., Hodge, S., Jones, K., & Holding, A. (2020). How Individuals Who Self-Harm Manage Their Own Risk—‘I Cope Because I Self-Harm, and I Can Cope with my Self-Harm’. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120945178

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