The Role of Attachment Style in Predicting Repetition of Adolescent Self-Harm: A Longitudinal Study

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 664-678

  Glazebrook, Katie ^a   Townsend, Ellen ^a   Sayal, Kapil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEER PRESSURE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SELF REPORT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEER INFLUENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SELF REPORT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84959101641     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12159     Document Type: Article

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