Introduction: Self-harm behaviour is the intentional damage of own body in various ways, but without the intention of committing actual suicide. Self-harm behaviour represents escape from many different feelings of sadness and emptiness, looking for ways to deal with inner stress and tensions. It can also be the accumulation of anger that adolescents cannot or do not wish to express nor share and they bottle it up. Purpose: The purpose of diploma work is to introduce different kinds of self-harm behaviour and sources that affect the development of such behaviour. We would also like to pay attention to all the important interventions that a nurse should be acquainted with when dealing with such patients and define the making of safety a plan and the use of it in practice. Methods: The diploma work is written based on descriptive and systematic check-up of Slovene and foreign literature. Slovene and foreign articles were acquired through following databases: PubMed/Medline, ScienceDirect, CINAHL and with the help of Cooperative online bibliographic system (COBBIS. SI), Digital Library of Ljubljana University (DiKUL) and online browser Google. Results: Since self-harm behaviour is a severely complex phenomenon, it requires a high degree of professional knowledge and experiences from clinical practice. In a desire to improve the quality and safety treatment of adolescents was at the Department for Adolescent Psychiatry at University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana introduced folder, named selfharm and safety plan. The main purpose of making such a plan is to be prepared in case of occurrence of self-harm, thus helping the adolescent and the health care professionals to act accordingly. Discussion and conclusion: Because self-harm behaviour is a serious public health issue, is very important that health and other services are involved for qualitative and entirely treatment. Knowledge of using the safety plan, therapeutic communication, which is the base element of an interpersonal therapeutic relationship, is for nursing health care professionals’ key importance. A safety plan was introduced in the Slovenian area in a desire to improve safety and quality health treatment. For a better understanding of self-harm and to reduce stigma, it is very important to educate and aware all who deals with adolescents with self-harm behaviour.
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