@article{ref1,
title="A preliminary investigation into counselling student attitudes towards self-harming behaviour",
journal="Counselling and psychotherapy research: linking research with practice",
year="2016",
author="Fox, Claudine",
volume="16",
number="2",
pages="119-122",
abstract="Aim  This article reports an exploratory study that investigated the attitudes of counselling students towards self-harm.    Method  A total of 76 counselling students were presented with short scenarios describing an individual who engaged in self-cutting, self-poisoning and unspecified self-harm. Attitudes were measured using the Attitudes towards Mental Illness Questionnaire (AMIQ; Luty et al., 2006).    Results  Overall, counselling students demonstrated a positive response to self-harm. Significant differences in attitude according to type of self-harm were also evident. Participants were significantly less positive towards self-poisoning than self-cutting or unspecified self-harm. Attitudes towards self-cutting and unspecified self-harm were not differentiated.    Conclusions  Findings suggest counselling student attitudes towards self-harm are worthy of further investigation. Potential implications for counselling training, professional practice and stigma reduction are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1473-3145",
doi="10.1002/capr.12063",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/capr.12063"
}