ABSTRACT
While a higher prevalence of people report engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), it is important to note that only about 20% of these individuals may seek mental health services, and of those, only half may report to their clinician that they self-injure (Wester, Downs, & Trepal, 2016; Wester & Trepal, 2015). So the questions that need asking are “Why are individuals who self-injure not seeking treatment?” and “When they do seek treatment, why are they not sharing with their clinician that they self-harm?”
