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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Oldershaw, Anna
• Simic, Mima
• Grima, Emanuela
• Jollant, Fabrice
• Richards, Clair
• Taylor, Lucy
• Schmidt, Ulrike

Titel

The Effect of Cognitive Behavior Therapy on Decision Making in Adolescents who Self-Harm: A Pilot Study

Ist Teil von

• Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 2012-06, Vol.42 (3), p.255-265

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Research shows poor decision making in adolescents who self‐harm and a positive correlation between decision‐making abilities and duration since last self‐harm episode. This exploratory study investigated whether decision making in self‐harming adolescents could be improved through treatment with a novel cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). It also investigated whether improvement in decision making following treatment was linked to self‐harm cessation. Adolescent self‐harmers receiving CBT (n = 24) or no treatment (n = 9) and healthy controls (n = 22) were longitudinally compared on the Iowa gambling task (IGT). Significant IGT improvements were only observed for adolescents who self‐harm following CBT. CBT may benefit adolescent self‐harmers and generate decision‐making improvements.