TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Seeking secrecy: a qualitative study of younger adolescents' accounts of self-harm
JO  - Young
A1  - Chandler, Amy
SP  - 313
EP  - 331
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
N2  - Young people who self-harm face challenges in seeking help, and there is a lack of qualitative research with under 16s despite rates of self-harm being high and help-seeking low. Data were collected from 122 young people aged 13-26 years, 108 of whom were aged 13-16 years, through multiple methods. This included six focus group discussions with 33 young people who had limited experience of self-harm; in-depth interviews with five people who had self-harmed and a qualitative online survey completed by 88 young people who had self-harmed. The analysis was thematic. Participants articulated views which could inhibit help-seeking: Young people provided strong negative judgements about 'attention-seeking' as a motive for self-harm, while 'private' self-harm was valorized. Talking to others about self-harm was identified as beneficial, but it was unclear how possible this would be, if self-harm must also be kept 'secret'. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that framing self-harm as private and secretive may be counterproductive.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1103-3088
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308817717367
ID  - ref1
ER  -