Psychiatry Research
Volume 144, Issue 1 , Pages 65-72 , 30 September 2006

Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: Diagnostic correlates and relation to suicide attempts

  • Matthew K. Nock

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, 1280, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 496 4484; fax: +1 617 496 9462.
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  • Thomas E. Joiner Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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  • Kathryn H. Gordon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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  • Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson

      Affiliations

    • Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
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  • Mitchell J. Prinstein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Received 2 January 2006 ,Revised 9 March 2006 ,Accepted 8 May 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.05.010

Psychiatry Research
Volume 144, Issue 1 , Pages 65-72 , 30 September 2006

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