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Edmondson, A.J. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0224-1997, Brennan, C. and House, A.O.,
2018.
Using photo-elicitation to understand reasons for repeated self-harm: a qualitative study.
BMC Psychiatry, 18 (1): 98.
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Abstract
Background: Reasons for self-harm are not well understood. One of the reasons for this is that first-hand accounts are usually elicited using traditional interview and questionnaire methods. This study aims to explore the acceptability of using an approach (photo-elicitation) that does not rely on solely verbal or written techniques, and to make a preliminary assessment of whether people can usefully employ images to support a discussion about the reasons why they self-harm.
Method: Interviews with eight participants using photo elicitation, a method in which photographs produced by the participant are used as a stimulus and guide within the interview.
Results: Participants responded positively to using images to support a discussion about their self-harm and readily incorporated images in the interview. Four main themes were identified representing negative and positive or adaptive purposes of self-harm: self-harm as a response to distress, self-harm to achieve mastery, self-harm as protective and self-harm as a language or form of communication.
Conclusions: Employing this novel approach was useful in broadening our understanding of self-harm.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | BMC Psychiatry | ||||||
| Creators: | Edmondson, A.J., Brennan, C. and House, A.O. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Date: | 2018 | ||||||
| Volume: | 18 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © The Author(s). 2018. Open Access. This 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. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 10 Jun 2020 08:39 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2020 14:08 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39961 |
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