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The needs of adolescent girls who self-harm.

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The aim of treatment of girls who self-harm is to facilitate understanding of the act and provide alternative, healthier coping strategies.
Abstract
People who self-harm are typically intelligent, adolescent or young adult, middle to upper class girls, who do so to feel something or, paradoxically, to stop feeling and calm down. Girls who self-harm need to feel understood, listened to non-judgmentally, and responded to in relation to the unspoken suffering behind the self-harm behavior. The aim of treatment of girls who self-harm is to facilitate understanding of the act and provide alternative, healthier coping strategies.

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When home is where the stress is: expanding the dimensions of housing that influence asthma morbidity

TL;DR: A synthesis of overlapping research from a number of disciplines argues for the systematic measure of psychological dimensions of housing and consideration of the interplay between housing stress and physical housing characteristics in relation to childhood asthma.
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Differential patterns of HPA activity and reactivity in adult posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder.

TL;DR: The research reviewed presents the possibility of diagnostic specificity with regard to HPA function and the differential response pattern to the DST suggests that, while it cannot be considered a pure diagnostic tool, it should be one measure taken into consideration during diagnosis.
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Descriptions of self-mutilation among Finnish adolescents: a qualitative descriptive inquiry

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How Do People Stop Non-Suicidal Self-Injury? A Systematic Review.

TL;DR: Reviewing extant quantitative and qualitative literature into how Non-Suicidal Self-Injury cessation occurs, and individuals’ experiences of stopping, indicates that both intra and inter personal factors can influence self-injury cessation.
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Harm, Interrupted: Self-Injury Narratives and Same Sex Attraction

TL;DR: This article explored the meaning of self-injury in the context of a life lived in relationship with self and others and found that self-care and caring for others helped men to manage their distress and cope with a social world that can be invalidating.
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A Study of the Frequency of Self-Mutilation in a Community Sample of Adolescents

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive review of previous literature on the frequency of self-mutilation and preliminary epidemiological data concerning the frequency in a community sample of high schools students.
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Self-Mutilation and Eating Disorders

TL;DR: It is postulate that the combination of self-mutilation, anorexia, bulimia, and other symptoms (such as episodic alcohol abuse and swallowing foreign objects) may be manifestations of an impulse control disorder known as the "deliberate self-harm syndrome."
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Self-cutting in female adolescents

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the literature suggested eight differentiable theoretical models addressing why adolescents might engage in self-mutilation: behavioral, systemic, avoidance of suicide, sexual, expression of affect, control of affect and ending depersonalization, and creating boundaries.
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Understanding and Counseling Self‐Mutilation in Female Adolescents and Young Adults

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the syndrome of self-mutilation with specific attention given to selfmutilation in female adolescents and young adults and discussed causes, symptoms, types, definitions, and treatments.
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Repeated self-injury and its management

TL;DR: In this article, repeated self-injury and its management is discussed. International Review of Psychiatry: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 48-53, 2000.
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