Self-Injurious Behavior - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling.

17 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) is the intentional destruction of healthy body tissue without suicidal intent. DSH behaviours in non-clinical populations vary, and instruments containing a range of behaviours may be more informative than ones ... Read more...

Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention.

30 Jul 2009 Injuries can be predicted and prevented. The first step in doing so is gathering data about who was injured and how. Because injury data is based on documentation in patients' medical charts, physicians play an important role in injury prevention. ... Read more...

Update on pathological skin picking.

30 Jul 2009 Pathological skin picking (PSP) is a disabling disorder characterized by repetitive picking of the skin that causes tissue damage. Estimated to affect 2% to 5.4% of the population, PSP is currently listed as an impulse control disorder not otherwise ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Self-Injurious Behavior - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling. 17 Aug 2009
• Patient charting. Turning a routine activity into an opportunity for injury prevention. 30 Jul 2009
• A 12-year-old boy with a purpuric rash. Diagnosis: Dermatitis artefacta. 30 Jul 2009
• Update on pathological skin picking. 30 Jul 2009
• [Cause of a contusion of the eyeball] 29 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing autism: the role for emergence. 29 Jun 2009
• Self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange syndrome: 2. Association with environmental events. 29 Jun 2009
• Self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange syndrome: 1. Prevalence and phenomenology. 29 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of suicide attempters with family history of suicide attempt: a retrospective chart review. 3 Jun 2009
• Identifying deliberate self-harm in emergency department data. 30 May 2009
• Relationship of intentional self-harm using sharp objects with depressive and dissociative tendencies in pre-adolescence-adolescence. 30 May 2009
• Establishing best practice in pediatric emergency mental health: a prospective study examining clinical characteristics. 30 May 2009
• Group therapy for repeated deliberate self-harm in adolescents: failure of replication of a randomized trial. 30 May 2009
• Liaison psychiatry with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 30 May 2009
• [Panic attacks simulated by occipital lobe seizures] 29 Apr 2009
• Theory synthesis for self-neglect: a health and social phenomenon. 29 Apr 2009
• [Psychiatric treatment of deliberate self-harm in the out-of-hours services] 28 Apr 2009
• Generativity abilities predict communication deficits but not repetitive behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 23 Apr 2009
• Self-inflicted gunshot injury simulating a criminal offence. 22 Apr 2009
• [Injuring own body] 14 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Self-Injurious Behavior'

Definition: Behavior in which persons hurt or harm themselves without the motive of suicide or of sexual deviation.

Descriptor UI: D016728

Alternative terms: Self-Injurious Behavior; Behavior, Self-Injurious; Self Injurious Behavior; Deliberate Self-Harm; Deliberate Self Harm; Self-Harm, Deliberate; Self-Destructive Behavior; Behavior, Self-Destructive; Self Destructive Behavior; Parasuicide;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.980;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: SELF MUTILATION is also available; DF: SELF INJ BEHAVIOR