Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Insights on Psychopathology and Therapies

Call for Papers

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a highly complex behavior consisting in the deliberate damaging of one's own body without any intent to die. It is an increasing phenomenon in the last decades, and therefore evidence-based assessment as well new treatments is urgently needed.

Mental health practitioners would need to have up-to-date information about NSSI prevalence and diffusion, gender and culture differences, and available therapies.

We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the complex etiology underlying NSSI and the development of possible strategies and assessment, diagnosis, and prognosis processes and the evaluation of the outcomes.

We are particularly interested in articles describing psychometric assessment or underpinning new evidence about NSSI. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Recent developments in understanding the etiology and psychopathology in NSSI research, including findings from biology and neuroimaging
• Clinical evaluation and measuring outcomes, including new psychometric scales or validation of translated ones
• Theoretical insights (especially about social networks and peer influences, social contexts, cultural and cross-cultural influences, and so on)

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyj/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/psyj/nssi/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Tanya Meade Covic, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Guest Editors

• Karen Rodham, University of Bath, Bath, UK
• Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), School of Medicine, University of Genoa, Via Antonio Pastore 1, Genoa, Italy
• Denise M. Styer, Centers for Eating Disorders and Self-Injury Recovery Services, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA