Clinical and theoretical issues in self-injurious behavior
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Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents
What constitutes non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a matter of some debate, but its growing presence in mainstream and popular media as well as the growing number of anecdotal reports by physicians, therapists, and junior and senior high school counselors suggest that it may be, as some have called it, ‘‘the next teen disorder’’ [1]. Referred to in the literature and media as ‘‘self-injurious ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1516-4446
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-44461999000300011