@article{ref1,
title="The healing journey: help seeking for self-injury among a community population",
journal="Qualitative health research",
year="2014",
author="Long, Maggie and Manktelow, Roger and Tracey, Anne",
volume="25",
number="7",
pages="932-944",
abstract="Help seeking is known to be a complex and difficult journey for people who self-injure. In this article, we explore the process of help seeking from the perspective of a group of people living in Northern Ireland with a history of self-injury. We conducted 10 semistructured interviews and employed a grounded theory approach to data analysis. We created two major categories from the interview transcript data: (a) &quot;involution of feeling,&quot; which depicts participants' perspectives on barriers to help seeking; and (b) &quot;to be treated like a person,&quot; in which participants communicate their experiences of help seeking. The findings pose important implications for policy, practice, theory, and future research, including the need to increase the uptake of follow-up care among people who arrive at hospitals as a result of self-injury, self-harm, or suicidal behaviors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1049-7323",
doi="10.1177/1049732314554092",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732314554092"
}