Adolescent psychiatric inpatients' self-reported reasons for cutting themselves

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 830-836

  Kumar, Geetha ^a   Pepe, Deanna ^a   Steer, Robert A ^a  

^a UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cutting; Depression; Motivations; Self injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 10644227695     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000146737.18053.d2     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. American Psychiatric Association (2000) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed, Text Rev). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.
2. Beck AT, Steer RA (1993) Manual for the Beck Hopelessness Scale. San Antonio (TX): Psychological Corp.
3. Beck AT, Steer RA, Brown GK. (1996) Manual for Beck Depression Inventory-II. San Antonio (TX): Psychological Corp.
4. Bowen ACL, John AMH (2002) Gender differences in presentation and conceptualization of adolescent self-injurious behaviour: Implications for therapeutic practice. Couns Psychol Q. 14:357-379.
5. Briere J, Gil E (1998) Self-mutilation in a clinical and general population samples: Prevalence, correlates and functions. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 68:609-620.
6. Cicchetti DV (1994) Guidelines, criteria and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology. Psychol Assess. 6:284-290.
7. Cohen J (1992) A power primer. Psychol Bull. 112:155-159.
8. DiClemente RJ, Ponton LE, Harley D (1991) Prevalence and correlates of cutting behavior: Risk for HIV transmission. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 30:735-739.
9. Favazza AR (1998) The coming of age of self-mutilation. J Nerv Ment Dis. 186:259-268.
10. Favazza AR, Conterio K (1989) Female habitual self-mutilators. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 79:283-289.
11. Guertin T, Lloyd-Richardson E, Spirito A, Donaldson D, Boergers J (2001) Self-mutilative behavior in adolescents who attempt suicide by overdose. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 40:1062-1069.
12. Krefetz DG, Steer RA, Gulab NA, Beck AT (2002) Convergent validity of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale in psychiatric inpatients. J Pers Assess. 78:451-460.
13. Levenkron, S (2000) Cutting: Understanding and Over-Coming Self-Mutilation New York: Norton.
14. Nixon MK, Cloutier MA, Aggarwal S (2002) Affect regulation and addictive aspects of repetitive self-injury in hospitalized adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 41:1333-1341.
15. Osuch EA, Noll JG, Putnam FW (1999) The motivations for self-injury in psychiatric inpatients. Psychiatry 62:334-345.
16. Rodham K, Hawton K, Evans E (2004) Reasons for deliberate self-harm: Comparison of self-poisoners and self-cutters in a community sample of adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 43:80-87.
17. Simeon D, Favazza AR (2001) Self-injurious behaviors: Phenomenology and assessment. In D Simeon, E Hollander (Eds), Self-Injurious Behaviors: Assessment and Treatment (pp 1-28). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
18. Simpson CA, Porter GL (1981) Self-mutilation in children and adolescents. Bull Menninger Clin. 45:428-438.
19. Solomon Y, Farrand J (1996) "Why don't you do it properly?": Young women who self-injure. J Adolesc. 19:111-119.
20. Steer RA, Kumar G, Beck AT (1993) Hopelessness in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Psychol Rep. 72:559-564.
21. Steer RA, Kumar G, Ranieri WF, Beck AT (1998) Use of the Beck Depression Inventory-II with adolescent psychiatric outpatients. J Psychopath Behav Assess. 20:127-137.
22. Suyemoto KL (1998) The functions of self-mutilation. Clin Psychol Rev. 18:531-554.
23. Suyemoto KL, MacDonald ML (1995) Self-cutting in female adolescents. Psychotherapy. 32:162-171.
24. Weller EB, Weller RA, Rooney MT, Fristad MA (1999) ChIPS-Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press.