TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Mothers' awareness of self-harm behaviors in their children
JO  - Traumatology
A1  - Sansone, Randy A.
A1  - Wiederman, Michael W.
A1  - Jackson, Julia
SP  - 22
EP  - 27
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
N2  - This study examined mothers' awareness of seven self-harm behaviors in their adolescents who were being seen in an outpatient psychiatry clinic--namely, cutting self, burning self, hitting self, banging head, scratching self, preventing wounds from healing, attempting suicide. Using a cross-sectional self-report survey method with 71 mother--adolescent pairs, the study found (a) that self-harm behaviors were reported by 63.4% of the adolescent participants, most commonly, preventing wounds from healing and scratching self; (b) that there was a moderate level of concordance between mother and adolescent with regard to behaviors that were not being performed; (c) that in most cases of discordance, the mother denied a behavior that the adolescent indicated as having actually performed, most commonly, preventing wounds from healing; and (d) that mothers were significantly less likely to acknowledge self-harm behaviors in their adolescents as the number of self-harm behaviors reported by offspring increased (r = --.87, p <.001).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1534-7656
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765608320336
ID  - ref1
ER  -