Responses to Online Photographs of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: A Thematic Analysis

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-235

  Baker, Thomas G ^a   Lewis, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

imagery; Internet; non suicidal self injury; self harm; triggering; youth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; PERSONALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PERSONALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SUICIDAL IDEATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84880965633     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2013.805642     Document Type: Article

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