Associations between connections to parents and friends and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: The mediating role of developmental assets
Lindsay A Taliaferro, Sung Tae Jang, Nicholas J Westers, et al. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Published online August 13, 2019.
This study including data from over 119,000 students who participated in the 2016 Minnesota School Study found that parent and friendship connections were protective against non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI). Ways of augmenting these supports during routine clinical therapy need to be identified in order to improve future management of NSSI.