Children who Poison Themselves I. A Clinical Comparison with Psychiatric Controls
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 145 (2), 127-132
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.145.2.127
Abstract
Summary: Fifty schoolchildren, admitted as medical emergencies after poisoning themselves, were compared with 50 matched controls, resident in the same area of London, referred for psychiatric help for other reasons. The dependent measures were based upon systematically recorded clinical information in both groups. The self-poisoners showed more psychiatric symptoms and more disturbed family relationships than did the psychiatric group; they were more likely to meet criteria for depressive disorder and to come from families showing little warmth. This form of self-injury is not trivial or wholly culturally determined, and it warrants psychiatric intervention.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
- A Follow-up Study of Hospitalized Suicidal ChildrenJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1982
- Suicidal Behavior and Depression in Children and AdolescentsJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1982
- Life Stress and Symptomatology: Determinants of Suicidal Behavior in ChildrenJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1982
- The Meaning of Attempted Suicide to Young Parasuicides: A Repertory Grid StudyThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
- Suicidal Behavior in Latency-Age Children: An Outpatient PopulationJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1980
- Intentional self-injury in school age children: A study of fifty casesJournal of Adolescence, 1980
- Parent-child role reversal and adolescent suicidal behaviourJournal of Adolescence, 1979
- Self-Poisoning in AdolescentsThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
- Attempted Suicide as Language: An Empirical StudyThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1970
- THE SUICIDAL ADOLESCENT—THE EXPENDABLE CHILDJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1969