Self-injurious behavior in preadolescents and adolescents: Self-image and depression.

Leila alomao de La Plata Cury Tardivo; Loraine Seixas Ferreira; Malka Alhanat; Gislaine Chaves; Helena Rinaldi Rosa; Antonio Augusto Pinto Junior; Gabriel Okawa Belizario

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Self-injurious behavior in preadolescents and adolescents: Self-image and depression.

Leila Alomao De La Plata Cury Tardivo, Loraine Seixas Ferreira, Malka Alhanat, Gislaine Chaves, Helena Rinaldi Rosa, Antonio Augusto Pinto Junior, Gabriel Okawa Belizario

Abstract :

Preadolescence and adolescence are stages of development marked by biopsychosocial changes and characteristic conflicts that, left unassisted, can lead to risk and self–destructive behaviors, such as self–injury. The latter must be addressed through its relation to genetic, psychiatric and psychological vulnerability, in addition to family, social and cultural aspects, the effects of media and the Internet. Among psychiatric and psychological issues, depression stands out the most. This justifies the study of the relations between aspects of personality, self–injurious behavior and depression in preadolescents and adolescents in the age group of 11 and 16 years, with and without self–injurious behavior. The following instruments were used: a semi–directed interview, the Child Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Human Figure Drawing (DFH). The results allowed associating the participants‘ self–injurious behavior with depressive symptoms, negative self–image, feelings of guilt, pain–provoking thoughts, sexual concerns, body issues and difficulties in the connection between control and impulses