@article{ref1,
title="Deliberate self-injury in children and associations with negative adjustment",
journal="JAMA pediatrics",
year="2022",
author="Willoughby, Teena and Heffer, Taylor and Borg, Meghan E.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The onset of self-injury is thought to occur in adolescence, typically around 12 to 14 years.1 However, to our knowledge, there are no longitudinal survey publications that assess children's self-reported self-injury behaviors.2 We assessed whether age is associated with the consistency of self-injury over time and the association between self-injury and adjustment difficulties (depressive symptoms, emotion dysregulation, social anxiety). Parental knowledge of child self-injury also was investigated.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-6211",
doi="10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.1842",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.1842"
}