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| What is SI? |
| Kahan and Pattison (1984; Pattison and Kahan,1983) tackled SI by identifying three components of the self- injuring acts: directness, lethality and repetition. |
| Directness refers to how intentional the behaviour is; if an act is completed in a brief period of time and done with its full awareness of its harmful effects and there was concious intent to produce those effects, it is considered direct. Otherwise,it is considered indirect. Lethality refers to the likelyhood of death resulting from the act in the immediate or the near future. A lethal act is one that is highly to result in death, and death is usually the intent of the person doing it. Repetition refers to whether or not the act is done only once or is repeated frequently over a period of time |
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| High lethality |
| Low lethality |
| Repetitive taking small doses of arsenic over time |
| Non-repetitive gunshot wound to head |
| Repetitive SELF INJURY: CUTTING, BURNING, HITTING,ETC |
| Non-repetitive major self-mutilation |
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| Indirect behaviours not self injury |
| Perhaps the best definition of self injury found is found in Winchel and Stanley (1991), who define it as: the commission of deliberate harm to one's own body. The injury is done to oneself, without the aid of another person, and the injury is severe enough for tissue damage (such as scarring) to result. Acts that are committed with concious suicidal intent or are associated with sexual arousal are excluded. |
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