@article{ref1,
title="Understanding adolescents' experiences of self-harm: secondary analysis of family therapy sessions from the SHIFT Trial",
journal="Archives of suicide research",
year="2018",
author="Holliday, Robert and Brennan, Cathy A. and Cottrell, David",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-14",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To explore, using first-hand accounts, adolescents' understandings of why they self-harmed, what their responses to self-harm were, and how they resisted or ceased self-harm. <br><br>METHOD: Secondary analysis of video-recorded Family Therapy sessions from the Self-harm intervention: Family Therapy. Recordings of 22 participants, approximately 170 hours of footage, formed the dataset. <br><br>RESULTS: Five core themes were developed; (1) Distress can be difficult to convey (2) Self-harm and suicidal ideation; a complex relationship (3) Self-harm as a form of communication (4) Self-harm to manage emotions and (5) Moving forward. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Self-harm was a means of communicating distress as well as managing emotions. Accounts highlighted the complex interplay between self-harm and suicidal intent. Encouragingly, many participants described being able to resist self-harm.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1381-1118",
doi="10.1080/13811118.2018.1501448",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2018.1501448"
}