Holliday, R, Brennan, C orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-8497 and Cottrell, D orcid.org/0000-0001-8674-0955 (2020) Understanding Adolescents’ Experiences of Self-Harm: Secondary Analysis of Family Therapy Sessions from the SHIFT Trial. Archives of Suicide Research, 24 (sup1). pp. 190-203. ISSN 1381-1118
Abstract
The objective of this study was to explore, using first-hand accounts, adolescents’ understandings of why they self-harmed, what their responses to self-harm were, and how they resisted or ceased self-harm. Secondary analysis was conducted of video-recorded family therapy sessions from the Self-harm Intervention: Family Therapy (SHIFT Trial). Recordings of 22 participants, approximately 170 hours of footage, formed the dataset. The study developed 5 core themes: (1) Distress can be difficult to convey; (2) Self-harm and suicidal ideation: a complex relationship; (3) Self-harm as a form of communication; (4) Self-harm to manage emotions; and (5) Moving forward. Self-harm was a means of communicating distress as well as managing emotions. Accounts highlighted the complex interplay between self-harm and suicidal intent. Encouragingly, many participants described being able to resist self-harm.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 International Academy for Suicide Research. This is an author produced version of an article published in Archives of Suicide Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. | ||||||||||
Keywords: | Adolescents, first-hand accounts, self-harm | ||||||||||
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Institution: | The University of Leeds | ||||||||||
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences (Leeds) | ||||||||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications | ||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 11:29 | ||||||||||
Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2020 13:42 | ||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2018.1501448 |