An examination of cutting and other methods of DSH among children and adolescents presenting to an outpatient psychiatric clinic in New Zealand.
This article explores the issue of cutting among children and adolescents presenting to an outpatient child and adolescent mental health service in New Zealand. Of interest is the extent to which children and adolescents who cut themselves also carry out other forms of deliberate self-harm (DSH). This study found that there was much cross over in the methods of DSH used and that cutters were not a distinguishable group. Therefore, those who present to mental health services with cutting need to be treated as carrying significant risk of fatality.
Fortune
Sarah A
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University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK. sarah.fortune@psych.ox.ac.uk
D000293:Adolescent; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data