Religious beliefs, coping skills and responsibility to family as factors protecting against deliberate self-harm

Background. Deliberate self-harm (DSH) ranges from behaviours aiming to communicate distress or relieve tension, but where suicide is not intended, to actual suicide. Not all individuals are prone to DSH, which suggests that there are factors that protect against it. Identifying these could play an...

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Main Authors: K Kannan, S K Pillai, J S Gill, K O Hui, V Swami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2010-12-01
Series:South African Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.sajp.org.za/index.php/sajp/article/view/240