TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - A preliminary investigation into counselling student attitudes towards self-harming behaviour
JO  - Counselling and psychotherapy research: linking research with practice
A1  - Fox, Claudine
SP  - 119
EP  - 122
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
N2  - Aim    This article reports an exploratory study that investigated the attitudes of counselling students towards self-harm.       Method    A total of 76 counselling students were presented with short scenarios describing an individual who engaged in self-cutting, self-poisoning and unspecified self-harm. Attitudes were measured using the Attitudes towards Mental Illness Questionnaire (AMIQ; Luty et al., 2006).       Results    Overall, counselling students demonstrated a positive response to self-harm. Significant differences in attitude according to type of self-harm were also evident. Participants were significantly less positive towards self-poisoning than self-cutting or unspecified self-harm. Attitudes towards self-cutting and unspecified self-harm were not differentiated.       Conclusions    Findings suggest counselling student attitudes towards self-harm are worthy of further investigation. Potential implications for counselling training, professional practice and stigma reduction are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1473-3145
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/capr.12063
ID  - ref1
ER  -