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‘Given up hope of dying’: A child protection approach to deliberate self‐harm in adolescents admitted to a paediatric ward
Author(s) -
Souter Annie,
Kraemer Sebastian
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00333.x
Subject(s) - harm , neglect , psychosocial , multidisciplinary approach , child protection , psychiatry , social work , young person , deliberate self harm , psychology , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , nursing , developmental psychology , medical emergency , social psychology , sociology , political science , social science , law
This paper describes an approach developed by a local authority social worker based in a paediatric department, working in close collaboration with consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists and paediatricians. The literature is informative on the significant psychosocial difficulties of young people who harm themselves deliberately, but there is little published work on the complexities of the actual multidisciplinary care given to these patients, the majority of whom are not actively suicidal by the time they are interviewed. The task is as much to intervene in the lives of young people at risk of harm or neglect as to prevent suicide.