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Understanding risk for nonsuicidal self‐injury
Author(s) -
Liu Richard
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30093
Subject(s) - harm , psychology , phenomenon , self destructive behavior , falling (accident) , clinical psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , medical emergency , epistemology , philosophy
Nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) involves the intentional infliction of harm to one's own bodily tissue in the absence of any suicidal intent. Although it has traditionally been viewed as existing along the same spectrum of self‐harm as suicidal behavior, but falling on the milder end of this spectrum, there has been an increasing amount of research suggesting that, despite some shared conceptual similarities, it is a distinct clinical phenomenon in its own right. For this reason, NSSI has received increasing attention over the last 10 to 15 years in both clinical and research settings.