The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives

We explored parent and adolescent reports of family functioning, how this differed if the parent was aware that their child self-injured, and how parental awareness of self-injury was related to self-injury frequency, self-injury severity, and help seeking. Participants were 117 parent–adolescent dy...

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Main Authors: Kelada, L., Hasking, Penelope, Melvin, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30870
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description We explored parent and adolescent reports of family functioning, how this differed if the parent was aware that their child self-injured, and how parental awareness of self-injury was related to self-injury frequency, self-injury severity, and help seeking. Participants were 117 parent–adolescent dyads, in 23 of which the adolescent self-injured. Adolescents who self-injured reported poorer family functioning than their parents, but parents who did not know about their child's self-injury reported similar functioning to parents whose children did not self-injure. Parents were more likely to know that their child self-injured when the behavior was severe and frequent. Help-seeking was more likely when parents knew about self-injury. Family-based interventions which emphasize perspective-taking could be used to effectively treat self-injury.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-308702017-09-13T15:11:17Z The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives Kelada, L. Hasking, Penelope Melvin, G. We explored parent and adolescent reports of family functioning, how this differed if the parent was aware that their child self-injured, and how parental awareness of self-injury was related to self-injury frequency, self-injury severity, and help seeking. Participants were 117 parent–adolescent dyads, in 23 of which the adolescent self-injured. Adolescents who self-injured reported poorer family functioning than their parents, but parents who did not know about their child's self-injury reported similar functioning to parents whose children did not self-injure. Parents were more likely to know that their child self-injured when the behavior was severe and frequent. Help-seeking was more likely when parents knew about self-injury. Family-based interventions which emphasize perspective-taking could be used to effectively treat self-injury. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30870 10.1111/jmft.12150 restricted
spellingShingle Kelada, L.
Hasking, Penelope
Melvin, G.
The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title_full The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title_fullStr The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title_short The Relationship Between Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Family Functioning: Adolescent and Parent Perspectives
title_sort relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury and family functioning: adolescent and parent perspectives
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30870