Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior

Our research program has two primary goals:

a) to conduct cutting-edge research on self-injurious behavior (also called non-suicidal self-injury) and b) to translate research findings from our and other studies into usable knowledge for parents, youth-serving professionals, individuals with self-injury experience, medical professionals, and others.

Our work is also intended to explore the relationship of self-injury to other mental health conditions (suicide and eating disorders, for example) and to shed light on contextual conditions that increase and reduce the likelihood that young people will engage in self-injurious behaviors.

We help understand, detect, treat, and prevent self-injury.

Welcome to the Self-Injury & Recovery Resources (SIRR) website.

This website is dedicated to sharing resources related to self-injury and associated conditions. We also aim to translate the growing body of knowledge about self-injury into resources and tools useful for those seeking to better understand, treat, and prevent it.