@article{ref1,
title="A qualitative exploration of how health care workers in an inpatient setting in Norway experience working with patients who self-injure",
journal="Nordic psychology",
year="2012",
author="Mattson, Å.L. and Binder, P.-e.",
volume="64",
number="4",
pages="272-290",
abstract="This study aimed to explore how health care workers think, feel and act when working with patients who self-injure. Eight health care workers who had extensive experience with patients who self-injure were recruited from a secure ward at a psychiatric hospital in Western Norway. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at the participants' workplace. The interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four themes emerged from the analysis: (1) &quot;Before&quot;: the frustration inherent in using coercive strategies; (2) &quot;The Change&quot;: from coercion to alliance; (3) &quot;Now&quot;: the experience of useful ways of working with self-injury; (4) &quot;Thin line between Life and Death&quot;: suicide attempt or self-injury? The first theme describes how the ward used to function before the changes described in the second theme occurred. The third theme and its sub-themes detail how undergoing the change process previously described led to a subjectively better way of working with self-injury. The fourth theme describes a new challenge that arose with the new way of thinking about and working with self-injury. The four themes form a chronological narrative of how the participants' understanding and treatment of self-injury changed with experience, and details the new ways of working with and understanding self-injury. The discussion section explores how the themes relate to each other and explores the findings in the light of psychological literature. © 2012 Nordic Psychology.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1901-2276",
doi="10.1080/19012276.2012.768034",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2012.768034"
}