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Understanding the Experience and Needs of School Counsellors When Working with Young People Who Engage in Self-Harm

Self-harm rates are increasing globally and demand for supporting, treating and managing young people who engage in self-harm often falls to schools. Yet the approach taken by schools varies. This study aimed to explore the experience of school staff managing self-harm, and to obtain their views on...

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Autores principales: Te Maro, Ben, Cuthbert, Sasha, Sofo, Mia, Tasker, Kahn, Bowden, Linda, Donkin, Liesje, Hetrick, Sarah E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6926739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31810234
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234844
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author Te Maro, Ben
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Bowden, Linda
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description Self-harm rates are increasing globally and demand for supporting, treating and managing young people who engage in self-harm often falls to schools. Yet the approach taken by schools varies. This study aimed to explore the experience of school staff managing self-harm, and to obtain their views on the use of guidelines in their work. Twenty-six pastoral care staff from New Zealand were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed and coded using thematic analysis. Three themes emerged: The burden of the role; discrepancies in expectations, training, and experience; and the need for guidelines to support their work. This research, therefore, demonstrated a need for guidelines to support school staff to provide support around decision making and response to self-harm in the school environment.
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spelling pubmed-69267392019-12-24 Understanding the Experience and Needs of School Counsellors When Working with Young People Who Engage in Self-Harm Te Maro, Ben Cuthbert, Sasha Sofo, Mia Tasker, Kahn Bowden, Linda Donkin, Liesje Hetrick, Sarah E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Self-harm rates are increasing globally and demand for supporting, treating and managing young people who engage in self-harm often falls to schools. Yet the approach taken by schools varies. This study aimed to explore the experience of school staff managing self-harm, and to obtain their views on the use of guidelines in their work. Twenty-six pastoral care staff from New Zealand were interviewed. Interviews were analyzed and coded using thematic analysis. Three themes emerged: The burden of the role; discrepancies in expectations, training, and experience; and the need for guidelines to support their work. This research, therefore, demonstrated a need for guidelines to support school staff to provide support around decision making and response to self-harm in the school environment. MDPI 2019-12-02 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6926739/ /pubmed/31810234 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16234844 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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