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A seven page paper which considers the way in which self-harmers are dealt with by social and health care workers, the underlying psychological reasons for self-injury, and recommendations for improvements in interventions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
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asserts, for example, that the reactions which self-harmers receive from staff in Accident and Emergency departments tend to demonstrate a lack of understanding of self-harm in general, and the psychology
of self-harmers in particular. It is common, for example, for staff to dismiss self-injury as a cry for attention, when in fact those who injure themselves tend to conceal their
behaviours as far as possible. Staff also tend to equate the severity of the wound with the severity of distress which has caused it, whereas in fact even small injuries
may reflect a very severe level of disturbance and emotional pain.
As Pembrooke and Smith (2003) point out, even a small injury must be considered in conjunction with the degree of emotional stress which it represents. The NSHN recognises that in
many cases, hospital staff will regard self-harmers as the last straw when they have an overwhelming backlog of far more severe injuries to deal with in an under-staffed and under-funded
department, but maintain that exercising good practice with regard to self-harmers will break the spiral in which medical staff express their exasperation with self-harmers and therefore set up a potential
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries represent a severe level of emotional disturbance, that self-harmers are given
a private space in which to wait for treatment, offered beverages, treated with patience and not forced to seek psychiatric help, and so on. One might assert that such treatment
would be applicable for all patients in an emergency department; however Pembrooke and Smith do not seem to be demanding special treatment for self-harmers but asserting that they do not
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