@article{ref1,
title="Mothers' awareness of self-harm behaviors in their children",
journal="Traumatology",
year="2008",
author="Sansone, Randy A. and Wiederman, Michael W. and Jackson, Julia",
volume="14",
number="3",
pages="22-27",
abstract="This study examined mothers' awareness of seven self-harm behaviors in their adolescents who were being seen in an outpatient psychiatry clinic--namely, cutting self, burning self, hitting self, banging head, scratching self, preventing wounds from healing, attempting suicide. Using a cross-sectional self-report survey method with 71 mother--adolescent pairs, the study found (a) that self-harm behaviors were reported by 63.4% of the adolescent participants, most commonly, preventing wounds from healing and scratching self; (b) that there was a moderate level of concordance between mother and adolescent with regard to behaviors that were not being performed; (c) that in most cases of discordance, the mother denied a behavior that the adolescent indicated as having actually performed, most commonly, preventing wounds from healing; and (d) that mothers were significantly less likely to acknowledge self-harm behaviors in their adolescents as the number of self-harm behaviors reported by offspring increased (r = --.87, p <.001).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1534-7656",
doi="10.1177/1534765608320336",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765608320336"
}