Psychologist: increase in school violence possibly linked to need to self harm
During the pandemic, counselling psychologist Sule Joseph noticed “a marked increase” in the reporting of children using “mal adaptive coping strategies” such as self harming. “There are positive coping mechanisms like exercise, meditation, art and so on, but you can have negative ways of coping with stressful situations like smoking or drinking excessively, taking pills,
Source: newsday.co.tt
