@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury and family functioning: adolescent and parent perspectives",
journal="Journal of marital and family therapy",
year="2016",
author="Kelada, Lauren and Hasking, Penelope A. and Melvin, Glenn",
volume="42",
number="3",
pages="536-549",
abstract="We explored parent and adolescent reports of family functioning, how this differed if the parent was aware that their child self-injured, and how parental awareness of self-injury was related to self-injury frequency, self-injury severity, and help seeking. Participants were 117 parent-adolescent dyads, in 23 of which the adolescent self-injured. Adolescents who self-injured reported poorer family functioning than their parents, but parents who did not know about their child's self-injury reported similar functioning to parents whose children did not self-injure. Parents were more likely to know that their child self-injured when the behavior was severe and frequent. Help-seeking was more likely when parents knew about self-injury. Family-based interventions which emphasize perspective-taking could be used to effectively treat self-injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0194-472X",
doi="10.1111/jmft.12150",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12150"
}