@article{ref1,
title="The efficacy of a nursing challenge to patients: testing a new intervention to decrease self-harm behaviour in severe personality disorder",
journal="Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing",
year="1995",
author="Cremin, D. and Lemmer, B. and Davison, S.",
volume="2",
number="4",
pages="237-246",
abstract="This paper describes the study of a new intervention, which was intended to increase therapeutic engagement with patients and to decrease self-harm behaviour. As a result of nursing observations in a unit that specialized in severe personality disorders, a psychodynamic perspective to treatment was introduced in the form of a nursing challenge. The intervention was evaluated in a new service for young adults at a psychiatric hospital in the south of England, as part of a clinical research apprenticeship. The care and treatment of persons with severe personality disorders present a major challenge to coherent and cohesive teamwork. A test and retrospective comparison study is described and its findings reported. Data from the study point to the need for more than a single challenge, to achieve a sustained reduction in self-harm, along with staff training to ensure working knowledge of a particular framework.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-0126",
doi="10.1111/j.1365-2850.1995.tb00063.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.1995.tb00063.x"
}