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Self-Harm Classification System Development - Theoretical Study

Review of Social Sciences

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Title Self-Harm Classification System Development - Theoretical Study
 
Creator Burešová, I.
 
Subject
self-harm; classification system; definition; terms

 
Description In the last decades there has been a visible increase in self-harming behaviour. Although this fact could have been influenced by the increased interest of specialists in researching this phenomenon and the related development and specification of adequate diagnostic tools, it is certain that this specific behaviour, until recently considered highly pathological, is becoming a norm to such an extent that a significant number of individuals try it at least once in their life or even practice it for an extended period of time. Despite the preliminary establishing of self-harm as an isolated symptom in the diagnostic manual DSM-VTM, we cannot find its unified and generally acknowledged definition in relevant specialised literature because it is a complex phenomenon and its exact description entails a number of disunities in terms of terminology resulting from the various ways of understanding it. 
 
Publisher LAR Center Press
 
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Date 2016-04-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.socialsciencejournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/21
10.18533/rss.v1i4.21
 
Source Review of Social Sciences; Vol 1, No 4 (2016): April; 13-20
2378-8550
2378-8569
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.socialsciencejournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/21/18
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 I. Burešová
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