title: Self-injurious behavior as a separate clinical syndrome.
abstract: The field of clinical psychology may benefit from adopting a deliberate self-injury syndrome as a distinct disorder for representation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The phenomenological and empirical data supporting a deliberate self-injury syndrome are reviewed, and arguments for and against the adoption of a distinct syndrome are explored.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA. jjmuehlenkamp@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Muehlenkamp
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013577:Syndrome; D009626:Terminology as Topic