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Pollock, Elaine; O'Shea, Johanna; Killick, Campbell – Child Care in Practice, 2021
Self-harm continues to be a growing concern within adolescence and is a globally recognised public health and social problem. Adolescents living in the community who self-harm are extremely common however less is known about these young people. This study focussed on capturing the voice of young people who engage in cutting behaviour to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Destructive Behavior, Injuries, Adolescents
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Harvey, Kevin; Brown, Brian – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2012
This study explores adolescents' accounts of self-harm with a view to elucidate the implications for health care practitioners seeking to administer care to teenagers in English. Drawing on a corpus of 1.6 million words from messages posted on a UK-hosted adolescent health Web site, analysis began by identifying a range of keywords relating to…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Health Personnel, Foreign Countries