Professor George Patton from the Centre Adolescent Health, participated last night in the media launch by The Lancet in London of a new research paper that will be published this week on self-harming in adolescents.
See this link for the article in The Lancet: The natural history of self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood: a population based study .
This longitudinal paper, a collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry in London, reports the natural history of self-harming within the Victorian Adolescent Cohort Study – it highlights the changing prevalence across the adolescent and young adult years. A very large number of media agencies were present at the launch in London.
Congratulations to Prof George Patton, Dr Craig Olsson, Dr Helena Romaniuk and Dr Carolyn Coffey who were co-authors.
This publication marks the 3rd paper this year in The Lancet by the Centre for Adolescent Heath/MCRI which is another fairly remarkable achievement by Prof Patton and the research team.
For further information go to MCRI’s web site on the launch.