Parents' perspectives on adolescent self-harm: Qualitative study

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Clair Richards · Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Mima Simic · Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Abstract

Parents require advice and support from outside services to help them manage self-harming behaviour and its personal impact. This study suggests parents are early to spot signs of self-harm, indicating their key role in reaching young people in the community who remain unknown to health services.

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Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Mental Health Treatment and Access Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

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Published in: The British Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 193, Issue 2, pp. 140-144

DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045930

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