Brief intervention: reducing the repetition of deliberate self-harm.
Deliberate self-poisoning is one of the commonest reasons for hospital admission in the UK and people who deliberately self-harm are often difficult to engage. Solution-focused brief therapy could help these people as it has the potential to be effective after one session. The liaison psychiatry team at St Luke's Hospital, Middlesbrough, undertook a research project to evaluate the use of SFBT with patients who presented following an act of deliberate self-harm. Of the 40 patients seen only one repeated self-harm within the week of presentation.
Wiseman
Shirley
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St Luke's Hospital, Middlesbrough.
D062787:Drug Overdose / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000379:methods; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control