Serial Self-Injury Profiling System: Making Sense of Self-Injurious Behavior

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean H. Aufderheide
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Injury

scholarly journals The Self-perpetuating Cycle of Shame and Self-injury

2020 ◽  
pp. 016059762090447
Author(s):  
Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Injury

Although previous studies have considered shame to be a significant emotion in making sense of self-injury, the connection is still not fully understood. Drawing on sociological ideas on shame, this communication contributes to a theoretical understanding of actions of self-injury by demonstrating how shame operates and unfolds in social interaction. It argues for how shame and self-injury may reproduce and amplify each other, hence turning into a self-perpetuating cycle of shame and self-injury. It shows how shame is triggered in social interaction, how shame leads to self-injury, and how self-injury may turn into more shame. Self-injury is used to fend off shame by upholding social and cultural commitments and maintaining social bonds with others. However, self-injury may also threaten social order and social bonds and, consequently, trigger more shame. The most important reason that self-injury does not fully work as emotion work, and internalized social control, lies in the interactive cycle of shame, that is, you feel shame and cut, you cut again and are (a)shamed, you are shamed and cut, and so on. It is proposed that people who self-injure do not necessarily lack the ability to self-soothe or regulate emotions or that they suffer from a clinical psychopathology.

scholarly journals Making Sense of an Unknown Terrain

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas D. Hughes ◽  
Louise Locock ◽  
Sue Simkin ◽  
Anne Stewart ◽  
Anne E. Ferrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

Self-harm is common in young people, and can have profound effects on parents and other family members. We conducted narrative interviews with 41 parents and other family members of 38 young people, aged up to 25, who had self-harmed. Most of the participants were parents but included one sibling and one spouse. This article reports experiences of the parent participants. A cross-case thematic analysis showed that most participants were bewildered by self-harm. The disruption to their worldview brought about by self-harm prompted many to undergo a process of “sense-making”—by ruminative introspection, looking for information, and building a new way of seeing—to understand and come to terms with self-harm. Most participants appeared to have been successful in making sense of self-harm, though not without considerable effort and emotional struggle. Our findings provide grounds for a deeper socio-cultural understanding of the impact of self-harm on parents.

Noisy Places, Noisy People

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Ferzacca
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Gathering Place

Making noise in a basement corner of an ageing mall in Singapore affords a small community of musicians, family and friends a gathering place to meet, eat, drink, smoke and jam loud amplified music. The Doghouse is a ‘device of saturation’, a way of making sense of self and others: it exists so that this sonic community can exact possibilities and creative potential within the limits of official use of public space. Bodily scales are realized in cosmopolitan spaces where local and global interrogations in dialogue, in space, and among things, make trouble and meaning. And so some noisy people have, for now, found a playground where their urban dreams and aspirations are imagined and realized.

Making Sense of Self: An Autoethnographic Study of Identity Formation for Adolescents in Music Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Allison Echard
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Clinical Thinking

Abstract Told through my experiences of working with three teenagers who had mild and moderate developmental disabilities, this autoethnographic study considers identity formation as a core concept in music therapy clinical practice. In doing so, I explored theories of identity formation, including those described by Erikson (1950, Childhood and society, Norton), Marcia and colleagues (1993, Ego identity: A handbook for psychosocial research, Springer), and Crocetti, Rubini, and Meeus (2008, Journal of Adolescence, 31(2), 207–222), relating these concepts to each of the teenagers I worked with. This article, therefore, chronicles the ways in which my clinical thinking shifted from a skills-based approach to one that considers the client’s identity as a whole, leading to suggestions of ways to integrate identity formation theory into clinical practice.

SAUDI ARABIA: MAKING SENSE OF SELF‐SERVICE

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein M.A. Alawi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Service

scholarly journals Towards making sense of self through emotional experiences in craft-art

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-227
Author(s):  
Milla Ojala ◽  
Seija Karppinen ◽  
Erja Syrjäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Making Sense

scholarly journals Understanding the self in nonsuicidal self-injury: A conceptual review and framework for future research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Evanna Boccagno ◽  
D.Phil. Jill Miranda Hooley
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Treatment Targets ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Self Potential ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a widespread and dangerous behavior. Despite increasing understanding of the risk factors for NSSI, this behavior remains highly prevalent, highlighting the need for an extension of current research and more precise treatment targets. Specifically, research examining self-perception in NSSI provides a fruitful foundation for future work. Mounting studies indicate that self-concept disturbances are implicated in NSSI. Yet it remains unclear how different components of self-concept—such as self-criticism and identity confusion—are associated for people with NSSI. Furthermore, research in this domain uses distinct definitions and measures of self-concept disturbance, rendering it difficult to integrate findings across studies. This conceptual review provides the first summary to date synthesizing research on self-concept (content and structure) in NSSI, highlights research questions to address, and outlines suggestions for future work. Recommendations for NSSI research examining self-concept include: (a) increasing the consistency of terms used; (b) examining relationships between self-concept content and structure; (c) exploring the extent to which measures of self-concept and identity tap into the same phenomena; (d) assessing self-concept across different levels of analysis; and (e) identifying treatment targets for distinct self-related disturbances (e.g., heightened self-criticism versus an inconsistent sense of self). Potential intervention targets are discussed.

Dementia, Selves, and Stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars-Christer Hydén
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Physical World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
Over Time

This chapter provides information on the social and cultural background of dementia from the early twentieth century into the early twenty-first century. The chapter presents an overview of the discussions about dementia, self, and identity, with a particular emphasis on research on narrative and dementia. The ideas around identity in dementia, from Kitwood to Sabat and Kontos, are discussed, together with research on storytelling in dementia. A general conclusion from this chapter is that although persons with dementia over time will become increasingly challenged as storytellers, they are still active meaning-makers. They are obviously still engaged in the never-ending activity of making sense of their social as well as physical world—events in the world, as well as what people are saying and doing. Telling stories is central to this endeavor, which entails “world-making” as well as “self-making” through constructing, presenting, and negotiating a sense of self and identity.

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