The NSSI Family Distress Cascade Theory

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a complex behaviour and occurs most commonly during adolescence. This developmental period is characterized by the drive to establish an equilibrium between personal autonomy and connectedness with primary caregivers. When an adolescent self-injures, caregivers ofte...

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Autores principales: Waals, Lisa, Baetens, Imke, Rober, Peter, Lewis, Stephen, Van Parys, Hanna, Goethals, Eveline R., Whitlock, Janis
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0259-7
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author Waals, Lisa
Baetens, Imke
Rober, Peter
Lewis, Stephen
Van Parys, Hanna
Goethals, Eveline R.
Whitlock, Janis
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description Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a complex behaviour and occurs most commonly during adolescence. This developmental period is characterized by the drive to establish an equilibrium between personal autonomy and connectedness with primary caregivers. When an adolescent self-injures, caregivers often experience confusion about how to react. Reports of feeling guilt, fear, and shame are common in the wake of learning about a child’s self-injury. This cascade of negative feelings and self-appraisals may lead to hypervigilance and increased caregiver efforts to control the child’s behaviour. The adolescent may experience this as an intrusion, leading to worse family functioning and increased risk of NSSI. This cascade is not well acknowledged or articulated in current literature. This article remedies this gap by presenting the NSSI Family Distress Cascade.
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spelling pubmed-62979672018-12-19 The NSSI Family Distress Cascade Theory Waals, Lisa Baetens, Imke Rober, Peter Lewis, Stephen Van Parys, Hanna Goethals, Eveline R. Whitlock, Janis Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research Article Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a complex behaviour and occurs most commonly during adolescence. This developmental period is characterized by the drive to establish an equilibrium between personal autonomy and connectedness with primary caregivers. When an adolescent self-injures, caregivers often experience confusion about how to react. Reports of feeling guilt, fear, and shame are common in the wake of learning about a child’s self-injury. This cascade of negative feelings and self-appraisals may lead to hypervigilance and increased caregiver efforts to control the child’s behaviour. The adolescent may experience this as an intrusion, leading to worse family functioning and increased risk of NSSI. This cascade is not well acknowledged or articulated in current literature. This article remedies this gap by presenting the NSSI Family Distress Cascade. BioMed Central 2018-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6297967/ /pubmed/30568727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-018-0259-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6297967/
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