Violence, Intentional Injury and Self-Harm

Suicide & self-inflicted injuries, road traffic accidents and falls accounted for nearly two-thirds of injuries in Australia in 2004 - 2005.  (Source: The burden of disease and injury in Australia 2003 [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare])

24,924 people were hospitalised in Australia during 2005-06 as a result of intentional self-harm, representing 6% of injury hospitalisations. Assault resulted in 23,369 hospitalisations, or 5.8% of all hospitalisations. (Source: Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning, Australia 2005-06 [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)])

Follow the links below to find information about violence, abuse, assault and suicide, including support services.

Updated March 2011

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Personal Safety

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Self Harm

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Title:   Anger
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Anger is a natural human emotion, experienced by all of us. However, many people think of anger as a 'bad' or 'negative' emotion, which can prevent themselves or others from expressing it in a healthy and helpful way.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Anger - tips to resolve arguments
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Resolving arguments is best done by negotiation, not anger. Relaxation can help anger and techniques can help resolve arguments. Violence is not a solution to angry feelings.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Harassment (bullying)
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Harassment (or bullying) causes real distress. It also has negative consequences for the person doing the harassment. Children and young people who are bullied can have problems like anxiety and depression.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Managing aggressive and violent patients
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   All healthcare workers, especially general practitioners and staff in emergency departments, are likely to encounter aggression and violence.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Sibling rivalry
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Fighting and arguing between siblings is normal - it is how children learn to sort out problems and learn strategies they can use in other situations. Rivalry between siblings is quite common and is part of how children work out their place in the family. There are particular times when rivalry (jealousy) can peak such as the birth of a new baby.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Video games
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Technology has advanced to the point where a gamer can become immersed in a multimedia-enabled 'virtual reality' or 'alternate world'.
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Video games
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Today's computer and video games are much more complex and interesting to the point where a gamer can become immersed in a multimedia-enabled 'virtual reality'.
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   An abusive relationship
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   This fact sheet includes info on key signs of an abusive relationship, and where you can go to get help.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every hundred people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder. Overall, about twenty in every hundred people will experience some form of mental health problem at some time in their lives.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Gambling - advice for family and friends
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Family and friends of problem gamblers can feel guilt, shame and helplessness. They may feel frustrated, isolated and angry about gambling and its impacts. Support services – including counselling, financial counselling and legal advice – are available to affected family and friends. In most situations it is best not to lend money to a problem gambler. Lending money often maintains the gambling behaviour.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Violence
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   This topic is about violence and abuse. It looks at what it is, what it does and how it happens. It also gives practical tips about changing violence and keeping everybody safe from it.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to 2 in every 100 will develop bipolar disorder.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Violence is recognised as a major global public health problem, thus there has been much attention placed on interventions aimed at preventing aggressive and violent behaviour. As aggressive behaviour in childhood is considered to be a risk factor for v...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   The NSW trauma registry profile of serious to critical injuries: 2006
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   The NSW Trauma Registry Profile of Serious to Critical Injuries: 2006 is a report which identifies the trauma profile of serious to critically injured patients admitted to Trauma Centres. (This publication is provided by the NSW Insitute of Trauma and Injury Management).
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   Mental illness and violence - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Mental illness and violence are closely linked in the public mind.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   When it's right in front of you: Assisting health care workers to manage the effects of violence in rural and remote Australia
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   This manual has been developed for health care workers, managers and employer organisations in rural and remote Australia to assist them prepare for and respond to violence in ways that will minimise its impact.
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Child aggression curbed by reduction in TV time - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Research in the USA has shown that excessive TV viewing may contribute to aggression in young people.
Date:   Feb 2002
Title:   Teenage Behaviour - When Parents Can't Cope
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Advice on dealing with difficult behaviour including teenage violence towards parents.
Date:   Feb 1996

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