title: Helping self-mutilating adolescents: descriptions of Finnish nurses.
abstract: This study focused on the views of Finnish nurses in regards to providing help for adolescents who self-mutilate. Nine nurses participated, and when the interviews and written descriptions were qualitatively analysed, four main categories of information emerged. The first category comprises the nurses' views on self-mutilation. The second category describes the people who are able to be helpers. The third category describes the content of help, which is made up of a variety of acts provided by non-health professionals that promote the healthy development of adolescents. The fourth category describes care provided by nurses to adolescents who self-mutilate. Guidelines for caring for self-mutilating adolescents are needed, including information on the phenomenon of self-mutilation.
authors.affiliation: Kuopio University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio, Finland. marja-liisa.rissanen@kuh.fi
authors.forename: Marja-Liisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rissanen
authors.forename: Jari
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kylma
authors.forename: Eila
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Laukkanen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D004644:Emotions; D005387:Finland; D017144:Focus Groups; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support