{"id":1300,"date":"2017-03-01T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:23:50","slug":"self-injury-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/self-injury-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Injury Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"
With self-injury awareness day it is a great opportunity to educate. One author from Cornell University stated, “Self-injury is an overlooked public health issue”. It is critical to be aware of the impact and rampancy of the problem of self-harm. Self-harm “is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue most often done without suicidal<\/a>\u00a0intentions” The most common form of self-harm is cutting of the\u00a0skin. It also includes behaviors such as burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts\u00a0or interfering with wound healing (2013). One study also found that “close to a quarter of the students with a history of self-injury indicated that no one knew about it. Even among those who had attended therapy for any reason, only about 17 percent had disclosed their self-injury to a health care provider (Stark,2013).” Understanding the prevalence of self-injury, the risk factors associated with self-injury and the warning signs will further help parents, providers and those associated with helping adolescents and young adults. With self-injury awareness day it is a great opportunity to educate. One author from Cornell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOne recent study at Cornell University gathered statistic regarding self-injury among adolescents and young adults. “The research team found 15.3 percent of the participants reported a history of self-injury, and 6.8 percent had self-injured within the previous year. Most of the students 86.4 percent who had self-injured had done so more than once, and nearly half 42.8 percent reported self-injuring more than six times. The average age for starting self-injury was 15.2 years of age.(Stark, 2013)”
\nAnother study of adolescent age 15 to 16 in England found A lifetime history of deliberate self-harm was reported by 13.2% adolescents. Deliberate self-harm in the previous year was reported by 8.6% pupils, of whom 6.9% had carried out an act of deliberate self-harm meeting study criteria in the previous year. Of those who deliberately self-harmed 12.6% of cases of self-harm had resulted in presentation to hospital. In 45.0% of cases, the participants said they had wanted to die. The main methods used for deliberate self-harm were cutting<\/a> 64.6% and poisoning 30.7%. Multiple acts of deliberate self-harm were reported by 54.8% participants who self-harmed. (Hawton, 2002)
\nIt is important to know and understand the statistics regarding this issue. One must understand first that the problem exists and how prevalent the problem is. The study in England also found common risk factors associated with those who self-harm.<\/p>\n\n
\nParents, providers and those who work with adolescent need to know the warning signs associated with self-harm. These warning signs<\/a> include<\/p>\n\n
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\nBy Brad Simpson, LCSW, Executive Director of Sunrise Residential Treatment Center
\nReferences<\/strong><\/span>
\nMaking Sense of Cutting and Self-injury by Roger Stark<\/a>
\nKeith Hawton, Karen Rodham, Emma Evans, Rosamund \u00a0(2002). Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"