title: The needs of adolescent girls who self-harm.
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.
authors.affiliation: Professional Psychology Department, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Florida, USA. kimberphil@msn.com
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cerdorian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology