TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bürger, Arne
A1  - Schoenfeld, Cornelia von
A1  - Scheiner, Christin
A1  - Seidel, Alexandra
A1  - Wasserscheid, Antonia
A1  - Gad, Doreya
A1  - Kittel-Schneider, Sarah
A1  - Romanos, Marcel
A1  - Reiter, Andrea M. F.
T1  - Universal prevention for non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents is scarce - A systematic review
JF  - Frontiers in Psychiatry
N2  - Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) during adolescence is a high-risk marker for the development and persistence of mental health problems and has been recognized as a significant public health problem. Whereas targeted prevention has indeed shown to be effective in reducing NSSI and improve mental health problems, access to such programs is limited. By face validity, universal prevention of NSSI seems an ideal starting point for a stepped-care model to circumvent a lack of resources in the medical care system. However, it is yet unclear how effective such approaches are. Here, we provide a summary of existing work on universal prevention of NSSI in adolescents younger than 21 years based on a systematic literature search. We found that only seven studies are available. None of the programs evaluated was found to be effective in reducing the incidence or frequency of NSSI. After providing a comprehensive summary of the existing work, we evaluate the fact that existing work primarily focusses on selected/targeted prevention and on psychoeducational methods. We derive implications for future directions in the field of universal prevention of NSSI.
KW  - non-suicidal self-injury
KW  - NSSI
KW  - emotion regulation
KW  - prevention
KW  - universal prevention
KW  - adolescence
KW  - mental health
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-357490
VL  - 14
ER  -