Self-injurious behaviors: A review of the literature

Self-injury is a phenomenon that has existed for centuries and in a variety of populations. The historical progression of the literature shows that self-injury has been associated with religious, cultural, psychological, and social factors and that it has been found in both clinical and non-clinical populations. A significant increase in the number of studies being done on non-suicidal self-injury has occurred over the past couple decades; however, literature reviews of existing data are minimal. The present study provides an in depth look at 23 qualitative and quantitative studies on self-injurious behaviors, and details the characteristics and behaviors of self-injury, associated risk factors, and co-morbid mental health conditions that are commonly linked to self-injury and treatment modalities used with individuals who self-injure. Findings of this analysis reveal that self-injury is a complex phenomenon and highlight the importance of fully informing social workers in order to adequately treat this growing problem

Annotation Guideline No. 7 : Guidelines for annotation of narrative structure

Analysis of narrative structure can be said to answer the question “Who tells what, and how?”. The first part of the question thus concerns aspects such as who is narrating, whether it is a character in the story or not, and if it is a first-person or third-person narrator. The second part is related to the story and its basic elements: characters and events, and how the sequence of events forms a plot. The third part concerns how the narrative text is constructed: ordering of the events, the perspective from which the story is seen, how much information the narrator has access to, etc