Citation

Souter A, Kraemer S. Child Fam. Soc. Work 2004; 9(3): 259-264.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00333.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper describes an approach developed by a local authority social worker based in a paediatric department, working in close collaboration with consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists and paediatricians. The literature is informative on the significant psychosocial difficulties of young people who harm themselves deliberately, but there is little published work on the complexities of the actual multidisciplinary care given to these patients, the majority of whom are not actively suicidal by the time they are interviewed. The task is as much to intervene in the lives of young people at risk of harm or neglect as to prevent suicide. © 2004, John Wiley and Sons Inc. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

deliberate self-harm; overdose; adolescent psychiatry; child protection; paediatric liaison