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Table 1. Overview of study population on gender, DSM-IV clinically assessed Axis I disorders and Axis II personality disorders according to the SCID-II (N = 140) n% Gender Female 115 82.1 Male 25 17.8 Axis I disorders Mood disorders 81 58.0 Anxiety disorders* 43 31.0 Eating disorders 18 13.0 Substance dependence 10 7.0 Dissociative disorders 4 3.0 Obsessive compulsive 3 2.0 disorder Attention deficit 11 8.0 hyperactivity disorder Axis II disorders No PD 31 22.1 One PD 34 24.3 Two PD’s 43 30.7 Three PD’s 21 15.0 Four PD’s 6 4.3 Five PD’s 4 2.9 Six PD’s 1 0.7 Paranoid PD 20 14.3 Schizoid PD 5 3.6 Anti-social PD 2 1.4 Borderline PD 50 35.7 Narcissistic PD 3 2.1 Avoidant PD 60 42.9 Dependant PD 5 3.6 Obsessive compulsive 23 16.4 PD Depressive PD 58 41.4 Passive aggressive PD 7 5.0 PD = Personality Disorder *including posttraumatic stress disorder Measures NSSI-Behaviour Questionnaire The Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behaviour Questionnaire (NSSI-BQ) N (see appendix 1) is a self-report questionnaire that was developed for clinical practice with adolescents, consisting of nine items. In 2008, a self-report questionnaire specifically for adolescents on the occurrence, frequency, method, function, readiness to quit, and ways to prevent NSSI was lacking in the authors’ clinical practice. Therefore, the NSSI-BQ was developed by the first two authors. The assumption was that if adolescents were facilitated to be open about their self-injurious behaviour, they would obtain more insight into the underlying causes of their behaviour. In addition, monitoring this behaviour as an integrated part of treatment would help them to regulate their emotions in treatment (Klonsky &      101 


































































































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