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Dialectical behavior therapy for the treatment of emotion dysregulation and trauma symptoms in self-injurious and suicidal adolescent females: A pilot program within a community-based child and adolescent mental health service
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Dialectical behavior therapy for the treatment of emotion dysregulation and trauma symptoms in self-injurious and suicidal adolescent females: A pilot program within a community-based child and adolescent mental health service

K. Geddes, S. Dziurawiec and C.W. Lee
Adolescent Mental Health: Connections to the Community, pp.273-295
Apple Academic Press
2015
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Abstract

A large percentage of adolescents present at community-based mental health clinics following acts of nonsuicidal self-injury, such as cutting or burning, due to significant difficulties with self-regulation of their emotions [1-4]. These adolescents often report using self-injury strategies to overcome emotional numbing [3], and many experience ongoing suicidal ideation, while some go on to make at least one and often more suicide attempts [3, 5, 6]. Given the nature of their presenting difficulties, many would argue that these adolescents have an “emerging borderline personality structure” [7-10].

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