Narratives of Self-Harm at School: Identifying Trajectories of Intervention in Educational Contexts

Abstract: Recent studies have shown that self-harming behaviour is increasingly widespread among adolescents, in particular at school. However, educational institutions perceive themselves unable to cope with the phenomenon, searching for protocols and guidelines to improve its management. Considering schools as useful contexts for intercepting the young malaise, this study aims at exploring the main meanings of self-harming behaviours made within the educational cultural contexts starting from the student’s narrations, in order to understand the possible trajectories of practice. In two high schools we have collected 96 narratives of self-harm written by adolescents (mean age 14; 74% females), who have been engaged in non-suicidal self-injury once in their life. The analysis of the narratives, produced with the help of a software for the automatic qualitative analysis of texts, has allowed to identify four prevalent themes organized into three sense vectors. The findings highlighted signifi.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1883

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Narratives of Self-Harm at School: Identifying Trajectories of Intervention in Educational Contexts ; volume:16 ; number:1 ; day:03 ; month:03 ; year:2020
Europe's journal of psychology ; 16, Heft 1 (03.03.2020)

Creator
Anna Gargiulo

DOI
10.5964/ejop.v16i1.1883
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101416390546892909
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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