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Self-harm websites ‘chasing’ vulnerable teenagers

11/12/2018

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Young people who engage in deliberate self-harm have encountered social media websites that promote and normalise their behaviour, and find themselves tracked by similar websites encouraging them to click and view.
Barbara Hannigan, a counselling psychologist based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), said the algorithms that track our retail behaviour and prompt pop-up ads act in the same way when it comes to self-harm.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/self-harm-websites-chasing-vulnerable-teenagers-884223.html

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    Tim Trimble is the Forensic Psychologist and he is experienced in conducting sexual, violent, cognitive and functional risk assessment.

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