@article{ref1,
title="Resisting urges to self-injure",
journal="Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy",
year="2008",
author="Klonsky, E. David and Glenn, Catherine R.",
volume="36",
number="2",
pages="211-220",
abstract="The present study explored whether and how self-injurers attempt to resist urges to harm themselves. Participants were 39 young adults with a history of skin cutting and other non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. A structured interview assessed the prevalence and perceived helpfulness of 48 methods for resisting self-injurious urges. Ninety percent of participants indicated that they had made efforts to resist urges to self-injure. These individuals had used an average of 16 different methods, and reported that they were successful in resisting the urges most of the time. &quot;Keeping busy&quot; and &quot;Being around friends&quot; were the most common methods used to resist self-injurious urges. However, &quot;Doing sports or exercise&quot; and &quot;Removing the means/instruments typically used to self-harm from the home&quot; were rated as being the most helpful for resisting self-injurious urges. <br><br>FINDINGS have implications for enhancing treatment and guiding future research.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1352-4658",
doi="10.1017/S1352465808004128",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465808004128"
}