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

The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features.

29 Sep 2009 This study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (attention, awareness, and acceptance of the present moment) underlie variability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and related impairments in interpersonal functioning, ... Read more...

Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies.

13 Sep 2009 Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals' self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are limited in their ability to ... Read more...

Persistent challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of the present review is to summarize recent research findings on the persistence of challenging behaviours in adults and children with an intellectual disability. RECENT FINDINGS: Studies varied in their definition and ... Read more...

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

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies. 13 Sep 2009
• Persistent challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychometric analysis of the self-harm inventory using Rasch modelling. 17 Aug 2009
• [Self-harm in children and adolescents] 8 Aug 2009
• Predicting deliberate self-harm in adolescents: a six month prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• TORDIA: unique opportunity to explore half-life theory. 30 Jul 2009
• Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: a case-control study. 26 Jul 2009
• Impulsivity and clinical symptoms among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury with or without attempted suicide. 21 Jul 2009
• Personality and non-suicidal deliberate self-harm: Trait differences among a non-clinical population. 15 Jul 2009
• The psychiatric profile of patients with psychogenic excoriation. 2 Jul 2009
• Treatment of a patient with traumatic brain injury-related severe self-injurious behavior. 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
• Epidemiology of intentional self-harm presenting to four district health boards in New Zealand over 12 months, and comparison with official data. 29 Jun 2009
• Complex trauma, impact on development and possible solutions on an adolescent intensive care unit. 29 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of suicide attempters with family history of suicide attempt: a retrospective chart review. 3 Jun 2009
• Interventions for suicidal youth: a review of the literature and developmental considerations. 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

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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