TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - The healing journey: help seeking for self-injury among a community population
JO  - Qualitative health research
A1  - Long, Maggie
A1  - Manktelow, Roger
A1  - Tracey, Anne
SP  - 932
EP  - 944
VL  - 25
IS  - 7
N2  - Help seeking is known to be a complex and difficult journey for people who self-injure. In this article, we explore the process of help seeking from the perspective of a group of people living in Northern Ireland with a history of self-injury. We conducted 10 semistructured interviews and employed a grounded theory approach to data analysis. We created two major categories from the interview transcript data: (a) "involution of feeling," which depicts participants' perspectives on barriers to help seeking; and (b) "to be treated like a person," in which participants communicate their experiences of help seeking. The findings pose important implications for policy, practice, theory, and future research, including the need to increase the uptake of follow-up care among people who arrive at hospitals as a result of self-injury, self-harm, or suicidal behaviors.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-7323
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732314554092
ID  - ref1
ER  -