Search for dissertations about: "DSH"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word DSH.
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1. Characteristics of Self-Injury in Young Adolescents : Findings from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies in Swedish Schools
Abstract : Self-injury in adolescents (e.g. when individuals cut, burn, hit or otherwise deliberately cause themselves direct injury), has gained recognition as a potentially important mental health problem during the past decade. Relatively little has been known about the scope and characteristics of this behavior in Swedish adolescents. READ MORE
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2. Deliberate self-harm patients in the emergency department : clinical and epidemiological studies
Abstract : Each year approximately ten million people deliberately harm themselves and one million people commit suicide across the world. Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a major cause of individual suffering and a burden on the healthcare system. READ MORE
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3. Deliberate self-harm : characteristics, clinical correlates and interventions
Abstract : Background: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are serious global health problems prevalent among both community and clinical samples. Several studies have suggested that aggression towards others may be a clinically relevant correlate in self-harming individuals, but the association is still unclear. READ MORE
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4. Cardiac biomarkers in cats : associations with feline characteristics and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Abstract : Cardiac biomarkers may be used to support diagnosis of diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a common cardiac disease in cats. However, the impact of feline characteristics on these biomarkers is relatively unexplored. READ MORE
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5. Borderline personality disorder : studies of suffering, quality of life and dialectical behavioural therapy
Abstract : The aims of the present thesis were: * To investigate how women patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) perceive their suffering, quality of life and encounter with psychiatric care (paper 11 and III). * To describe BPD patients' and psychiatric professionals' perceptions of receiving and giving dialectical behavioural therapy, DBT (paper I). READ MORE