Health Communication and Psychological Distress: Exploring the Language of Self-harm
Health Communication and Psychological Distress: Exploring the Language of Self-harm
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DOI：
10.3138/cmlr.1103
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发表时间：
2012-08-01
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1
通讯作者：
Brown, Brian
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作者：
Harvey, Kevin;Brown, Brian
本研究探讨了青少年对自残的描述，旨在阐明对寻求用英语为青少年提供护理的医疗保健从业者的影响。利用英国托管的青少年健康网站上发布的消息中包含 160 万个单词的语料库，分析首先确定了一系列与自残相关的关键词。随后对这些关键词的上下文检查提供了对贡献者自残经历以及导致其自残行为的因素的详细描述。一个反复出现的主题是自残的习惯性，这种行为被描述为一种他们无法控制的成瘾形式。自残者认为这种现象特别强大，并且这种行为被认为是缓解情绪混乱的唯一有效手段。如果我们要提高父母和卫生专业人员以英语为媒介应对自残的能力，那么对个人自残描述的语言密切关注是有价值的。在线健康资源也是引起苦恼青少年关注的宝贵途径，他们往往不愿意面对面寻求专业人士的支持。
This study explores adolescents' accounts of self-harm with a view to elucidate the implications for health care practitioners seeking to administer care to teenagers in English. Drawing on a corpus of 1.6 million words from messages posted on a UK-hosted adolescent health Web site, analysis began by identifying a range of keywords relating to self-harm. The subsequent contextual examination of these keywords afforded a close description of the contributors' experiences of self-harm and the factors that resulted in their self-injurious behaviours. A recurring theme was that of the habitual nature of self-harm, with the act being represented as a form of addiction over which they had little control. Self-harmers construct the phenomenon as particularly powerful, and the act is formulated as the only effective means of relief from emotional turmoil. If we are to increase parents and health professionals' ability to respond to self-injury in the medium of English, close linguistic attention to individuals' accounts of self-harm is valuable. Online health resources are also valuable means of eliciting concerns from distressed adolescents who are often reluctant to seek support from professionals face-to-face.