A critical review of explanatory models for self-mutilating behaviors in adolescents

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-178

  Messer, Julia M ^a   Fremouw, William J ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Critical review; Models; Self injury; Self mutilation; Youth

Indexed keywords

AFFECT REGULATION MODEL; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION; DEPERSONALIZATION MODEL; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INDUCED PSYCHOSIS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPLANATORY MODEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL SYSTEMIC MODEL; MAJOR SELF MUTILATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL MODEL SADOMACHISM; STEREOTYPIC SELF MUTILATION; STEREOTYPY; SUICIDE MODEL; SUPERFICIAL SELF MUTILATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; DEPERSONALIZATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF MUTILATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 37349126233     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.04.006     Document Type: Review

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