Stephen P Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 281884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen P Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen P |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4068-5759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Development and validation of the preparedness to disclose non-suicidal self-injury scale
The disclosure of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be a critical step in recovery by enabling access to social support, clinical intervention, and emotional validation. However, little is known about the psychological and contextual factors that shape individuals’ decisions to disclose NSSI. The present study developed and provided initial validation for the Preparedness to Disclose Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Scale (PDNS), a novel measure designed…
Social exposure and perceived public stigma toward nonsuicidal self-injury: A cross-national examination among university students who know someone who self-injures
Chaplains in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Rationale and Competencies
The rapid expansion of psychedelic research has opened significant pathways of opportunity in treating mental health disorders. Participants in recent clinical trials consistently report mystical-type experiences during dosing sessions, and some scholars posit that such experiences themselves help mediate clinical improvements in depression, PTSD, anxiety, and substance use disorders. These reports are in keeping with the historical reality that …
Understanding the Nature of Involuntary Discoveries of Self-Injury: A Content Analysis
Although growing research efforts have focused on voluntary disclosure of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), there are other ways people find out about another’s NSSI engagement. Of note, NSSI can be involuntarily discovered. The objective of the present study was to draw on lived experience perspectives and explore how these involuntary discoveries can happen, who may be involved, and where these discoveries occur. To do this, 139 university studen…
Plea understanding and decision making in youth and young adults: A scoping review of legal practices, risk factors, and current gaps
The lived experience of self-injury stigma and its psychosocial impact: A thematic analysis
The current findings highlight several psychosocial consequences of NSSI stigma for individuals with lived experience. In this way, this study adds to a growing body of work illustrating the value of lived experience perspectives in NSSI research and has important implications for research, anti-stigma work, and clinical practice
Exploring Voluntary Disclosure of Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury: A Thematic Analysis
Voluntary disclosure of Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury (NSSI) refers to instances when an individual chooses to share with another person that they have self‐injured. To date, the processes involved in deciding to disclose NSSI are not well understood from a lived experience perspective. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore lived experience perspectives of the decision to voluntarily disclose NSSI. Fifteen semi‐structured interviews were co…
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube
This study employed an observational design to explore the presentation of advocacy strategies in YouTube videos orientated around the event of Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD). While previous research has focused on highlighting potential dangers of social media platforms like YouTube we approached our exploration from a perspective of advocacy to try and establish a more balanced understanding of how YouTube can, and does, contribute to self-in…
Justice for Women After Sexual Assault: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Justice after sexual assault is often understood and enacted through the criminal legal system such that the outcomes are binary (i.e., justice is achieved or not achieved). Previous research indicates that survivors have specific wants and needs following an assault in order to experience justice, which may or may not align with current practices. We conducted a critical interpretive synthesis of 5 databases to create a sampling frame of 4,203 r…
Self-Injury in the News: A Content Analysis
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has garnered increasing academic and media attention in society. While more awareness of NSSI is welcomed, inappropriate reporting of NSSI in media could heighten the potential for stigmatization and misunderstanding of NSSI and people who engage in it. Further, certain kinds of content (e.g., graphic imagery) may be harmful to people who self-injure (e.g., provoking urges to self-injure). These concerns notwithsta…
Understanding Self-Injury: A Person-Centered Approach
Crazy, Weak, and Incompetent: A Directed Content Analysis of Self-Injury Stigma Experiences
Despite significant impacts to mental health and support-seeking, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) stigma remains under-studied and poorly understood. Recently, the NSSI Stigma Framework was proposed, conceptualizing NSSI stigma as comprising six constructs (origin, concealability, course, peril, aesthetics, disruptiveness) that manifest across four perspectives (public, self, anticipated, enacted). The present study investigated the extent to whi…
School-based recommendations for addressing nonsuicidal self-injury: Application to rural settings
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has emerged as a common and serious concern in school settings.Up to one in five students report having self-injured and continued NSSI engagement is associated with a multitude of mental health difficulties.Moreover, NSSI uniquely and significantly exacerbates the risk of death by suicide.Despite this, many schools report having limited resources to address NSSI among students, with staff often feeling underequippe…
Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees
How common are mental-health difficulties among applied psychologists? This question is paradoxically neglected, perhaps because disclosure and discussion of these experiences remain taboo within the field. This study documented high rates of mental-health difficulties (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) among faculty, graduate students, and others affiliated with accredited doctoral and internship programs in clinical, counseling, and school psycho…
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a common element of the human experience, and psychological scientists are not immune. Recent empirical data demonstrate that a significant proportion of clinical, counseling, and school psychology faculty and graduate students have lived experience, both past and present, of psychopathology. This commentary compliments these findings by leveraging the perspectives of the authors and signatories, who have personal lived experie…
A Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Parents and Children before Pediatric Venipuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The intervention did not reduce child pain or fear but reduced parent distress. It appeared most helpful for parents catastrophizing about their child's pain, which is noteworthy as these children are prone to worse outcomes
News media framing of self-harm in Australia
As a conduit of knowledge for the general public, news media inform the development and maintenance of attitudes and beliefs about a range of topics, including mental health and related behaviors. News media portrayals of such topics can, therefore, contribute to stigma—the culmination of harmful stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. A topic of increasing media and research interest is self-harm, a behavior that is still poorly understood a…
Stigma and nonsuicidal self-injury: Application of a conceptual framework
Developing a Policy, and Professional Development for School Staff, to Address and Respond to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Schools
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be a perplexing behavior: Why would someone deliberately damage their body to feel relief? Often starting in early adolescence, up to 1 in 5 high school students report engaging in the behavior. School staff (principals, teachers, and mental health professionals) are understandably concerned and have been calling for clear guidelines regarding how best to address and respond to NSSI. Based on the current evidenc…
I cut therefore I am? Avoiding labels in the context of self-injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) represents a critical global health concern. While our understanding of NSSI has evolved dramatically over past two decades,1 the language used to refer to those who self-injure has not. Terms such as self-injurer and self-harmer continue to be used throughout the empirical literature2 and likely in clinical settings. From a humanistic standpoint, these referents may perpetuate unhelpful discourses and exacerbate t…
Subsumed: Words on depression
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged: Remaking of self-injury narratives on Tumblr
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
Teen Depression Groups on Facebook: A Content Analysis
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most frequently diagnosed disorders in early adolescence and can lead to a multitude of negative life outcomes, highlighting the need for early and effective intervention to mitigate depressive symptoms. Recognizing the preference of youth to seek informal sources of help for mental health issues, which may include the Internet, the social networking site Facebook was investigated as a potential sourc…
Start, stop, and continue: Preliminary insight into the appeal of self-injury e-communities
Nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication has gained heightened empirical and public interest. This is the first study to examine possible motives for nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. A total of 68 nonsuicidal self-injury e-community members responded to open-ended questions concerning reasons for starting, temporarily stopping, and continuing nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. Results from a thematic analysis indicated that being mot…
The NSSI Paradox: Discussing and Displaying NSSI in an Online Environment
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is commonly shared online. In the offline world, secrecy is a sign of "real" or authentic self-injury; therefore, openly sharing NSSI in the online context could be considered a paradoxical behavior. We explored how users of an online NSSI site negotiated this apparent paradox. Contrary to our expectations, contributing text and photographs to an online site did not appear to compromise authentic identity. We sugge…
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged: Remaking of self-injury narratives on Tumblr
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
Start, stop, and continue: Preliminary insight into the appeal of self-injury e-communities
Nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication has gained heightened empirical and public interest. This is the first study to examine possible motives for nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. A total of 68 nonsuicidal self-injury e-community members responded to open-ended questions concerning reasons for starting, temporarily stopping, and continuing nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. Results from a thematic analysis indicated that being mot…
Discursive Narrative Analysis: A Study of Online Autobiographical Accounts of Self-Injury
This article offers an innovation in narrative analysis afforded by incorporating analytic concepts from discourse analysis. We share some examples from our study of online autobiographical accounts of non - suicidal self - injury (NSSI) to illustrate the various aspects of a discursive narrative approach to research. We show how the participants construct events and experiences as sequentially linked and temporarily related using a range of disc…
Crazy, Weak, and Incompetent: A Directed Content Analysis of Self-Injury Stigma Experiences
Despite significant impacts to mental health and support-seeking, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) stigma remains under-studied and poorly understood. Recently, the NSSI Stigma Framework was proposed, conceptualizing NSSI stigma as comprising six constructs (origin, concealability, course, peril, aesthetics, disruptiveness) that manifest across four perspectives (public, self, anticipated, enacted). The present study investigated the extent to whi…
Teen Depression Groups on Facebook: A Content Analysis
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most frequently diagnosed disorders in early adolescence and can lead to a multitude of negative life outcomes, highlighting the need for early and effective intervention to mitigate depressive symptoms. Recognizing the preference of youth to seek informal sources of help for mental health issues, which may include the Internet, the social networking site Facebook was investigated as a potential sourc…
Promoting Child Health and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
I want to fashion a thesis which will not commend itself to some, because there is a kind of breezy dismissal, underscored occasionally by an unwarranted contemptuousness, insofar as the rights of children are concerned, there is also some considerable jaundice and skepticism about international conventions generally-a tendency to see them as a kind of intellectual rigor mortis of the multilateral system. Nevertheless, I will make an argument. Le…
Promoting Child Health and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
I want to fashion a thesis which will not commend itself to some, because there is a kind of breezy dismissal, underscored occasionally by an unwarranted contemptuousness, insofar as the rights of children are concerned, there is also some considerable jaundice and skepticism about international conventions generally-a tendency to see them as a kind of intellectual rigor mortis of the multilateral system. Nevertheless, I will make an argument. Le…
Metacarpophalangeal pattern profile analysis of a sample drawn from a North Wales population
Sexual dimorphism and population differences were investigated using metacarpophalangeal pattern profile (MCPP) analysis. Although it is an anthropometric technique, MCPP analysis is more frequently used in genetic syndrome analysis and has been under-used in the study of human groups. The present analysis used a series of hand radiographs from Gwynedd, North Wales, to make comparisons, first, between the sexes within the sample and then with pre…
Discursive Narrative Analysis: A Study of Online Autobiographical Accounts of Self-Injury
This article offers an innovation in narrative analysis afforded by incorporating analytic concepts from discourse analysis. We share some examples from our study of online autobiographical accounts of non - suicidal self - injury (NSSI) to illustrate the various aspects of a discursive narrative approach to research. We show how the participants construct events and experiences as sequentially linked and temporarily related using a range of disc…
Subsumed: Words on depression
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged: Remaking of self-injury narratives on Tumblr
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
Teen Depression Groups on Facebook: A Content Analysis
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most frequently diagnosed disorders in early adolescence and can lead to a multitude of negative life outcomes, highlighting the need for early and effective intervention to mitigate depressive symptoms. Recognizing the preference of youth to seek informal sources of help for mental health issues, which may include the Internet, the social networking site Facebook was investigated as a potential sourc…
Start, stop, and continue: Preliminary insight into the appeal of self-injury e-communities
Nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication has gained heightened empirical and public interest. This is the first study to examine possible motives for nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. A total of 68 nonsuicidal self-injury e-community members responded to open-ended questions concerning reasons for starting, temporarily stopping, and continuing nonsuicidal self-injury e-communication. Results from a thematic analysis indicated that being mot…
The NSSI Paradox: Discussing and Displaying NSSI in an Online Environment
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is commonly shared online. In the offline world, secrecy is a sign of "real" or authentic self-injury; therefore, openly sharing NSSI in the online context could be considered a paradoxical behavior. We explored how users of an online NSSI site negotiated this apparent paradox. Contrary to our expectations, contributing text and photographs to an online site did not appear to compromise authentic identity. We sugge…
I cut therefore I am? Avoiding labels in the context of self-injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) represents a critical global health concern. While our understanding of NSSI has evolved dramatically over past two decades,1 the language used to refer to those who self-injure has not. Terms such as self-injurer and self-harmer continue to be used throughout the empirical literature2 and likely in clinical settings. From a humanistic standpoint, these referents may perpetuate unhelpful discourses and exacerbate t…
Stigma and nonsuicidal self-injury: Application of a conceptual framework
Developing a Policy, and Professional Development for School Staff, to Address and Respond to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Schools
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be a perplexing behavior: Why would someone deliberately damage their body to feel relief? Often starting in early adolescence, up to 1 in 5 high school students report engaging in the behavior. School staff (principals, teachers, and mental health professionals) are understandably concerned and have been calling for clear guidelines regarding how best to address and respond to NSSI. Based on the current evidenc…
News media framing of self-harm in Australia
As a conduit of knowledge for the general public, news media inform the development and maintenance of attitudes and beliefs about a range of topics, including mental health and related behaviors. News media portrayals of such topics can, therefore, contribute to stigma—the culmination of harmful stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. A topic of increasing media and research interest is self-harm, a behavior that is still poorly understood a…
School-based recommendations for addressing nonsuicidal self-injury: Application to rural settings
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has emerged as a common and serious concern in school settings.Up to one in five students report having self-injured and continued NSSI engagement is associated with a multitude of mental health difficulties.Moreover, NSSI uniquely and significantly exacerbates the risk of death by suicide.Despite this, many schools report having limited resources to address NSSI among students, with staff often feeling underequippe…
Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees
How common are mental-health difficulties among applied psychologists? This question is paradoxically neglected, perhaps because disclosure and discussion of these experiences remain taboo within the field. This study documented high rates of mental-health difficulties (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) among faculty, graduate students, and others affiliated with accredited doctoral and internship programs in clinical, counseling, and school psycho…
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a common element of the human experience, and psychological scientists are not immune. Recent empirical data demonstrate that a significant proportion of clinical, counseling, and school psychology faculty and graduate students have lived experience, both past and present, of psychopathology. This commentary compliments these findings by leveraging the perspectives of the authors and signatories, who have personal lived experie…
A Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Parents and Children before Pediatric Venipuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial
The intervention did not reduce child pain or fear but reduced parent distress. It appeared most helpful for parents catastrophizing about their child's pain, which is noteworthy as these children are prone to worse outcomes
Self-Injury in the News: A Content Analysis
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has garnered increasing academic and media attention in society. While more awareness of NSSI is welcomed, inappropriate reporting of NSSI in media could heighten the potential for stigmatization and misunderstanding of NSSI and people who engage in it. Further, certain kinds of content (e.g., graphic imagery) may be harmful to people who self-injure (e.g., provoking urges to self-injure). These concerns notwithsta…
Understanding Self-Injury: A Person-Centered Approach
Crazy, Weak, and Incompetent: A Directed Content Analysis of Self-Injury Stigma Experiences
Despite significant impacts to mental health and support-seeking, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) stigma remains under-studied and poorly understood. Recently, the NSSI Stigma Framework was proposed, conceptualizing NSSI stigma as comprising six constructs (origin, concealability, course, peril, aesthetics, disruptiveness) that manifest across four perspectives (public, self, anticipated, enacted). The present study investigated the extent to whi…
Justice for Women After Sexual Assault: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Justice after sexual assault is often understood and enacted through the criminal legal system such that the outcomes are binary (i.e., justice is achieved or not achieved). Previous research indicates that survivors have specific wants and needs following an assault in order to experience justice, which may or may not align with current practices. We conducted a critical interpretive synthesis of 5 databases to create a sampling frame of 4,203 r…
Plea understanding and decision making in youth and young adults: A scoping review of legal practices, risk factors, and current gaps
The lived experience of self-injury stigma and its psychosocial impact: A thematic analysis
The current findings highlight several psychosocial consequences of NSSI stigma for individuals with lived experience. In this way, this study adds to a growing body of work illustrating the value of lived experience perspectives in NSSI research and has important implications for research, anti-stigma work, and clinical practice
Exploring Voluntary Disclosure of Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury: A Thematic Analysis
Voluntary disclosure of Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury (NSSI) refers to instances when an individual chooses to share with another person that they have self‐injured. To date, the processes involved in deciding to disclose NSSI are not well understood from a lived experience perspective. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore lived experience perspectives of the decision to voluntarily disclose NSSI. Fifteen semi‐structured interviews were co…
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube
This study employed an observational design to explore the presentation of advocacy strategies in YouTube videos orientated around the event of Self-Injury Awareness Day (SIAD). While previous research has focused on highlighting potential dangers of social media platforms like YouTube we approached our exploration from a perspective of advocacy to try and establish a more balanced understanding of how YouTube can, and does, contribute to self-in…
Development and validation of the preparedness to disclose non-suicidal self-injury scale
The disclosure of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be a critical step in recovery by enabling access to social support, clinical intervention, and emotional validation. However, little is known about the psychological and contextual factors that shape individuals’ decisions to disclose NSSI. The present study developed and provided initial validation for the Preparedness to Disclose Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Scale (PDNS), a novel measure designed…
Psychology (21 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (17 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Traumatic Brain Injury Research (7 works)