Self-injurious behavior

Children aged 12 and above show self-injurious behavior (e. g. cutting and carving) fairly frequently. Emotional disturbances and massive social stress can often be the cause whereas very different motives for self-injurious ...

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents and young adults

Non-suicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSI) is a common phenomenon both in adolescence and young adulthood. NSSI in non-clinical populations also shows a close relationship to ...

Dealing with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in the school context

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been reported by 14 – 25 % of the adolescents in studies at German schools. If students try to seek help on their own, or problems linked to NSSI emerge ...

How psychologically burden are adolescents with self-injurious behavior?

During the last years many studies about prevalence rates in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been published. From Switzerland, however, there were no reliable data about the ...

Victims of bullying at school: Depression, suicidality, and self-harm in German adolescents

The suffering caused by school bullying is tremendous, and the risk for emotional and behavioural problems is increased for both victims and perpetrators as well ...

Anger regulation in children: Effects of contextual factors

The present study examined a conceptual model of the impact of the family on children’s emotion regulation (ER) regarding anger. Questionnaire and interview data were collected from N =135 ...

Correlation between attention deficits and reading and writing deficits

In addition to other factors, processes of attention are essential in the acquisition of reading and writing. The present study examined, by means of special tests, different ...

Health-related quality of life and social support of children with mentally ill parents: Effects of a manualized family intervention

Parental mental illness can lead to impairment of children’s health and well-being that is accompanied by deteriorated ...