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Susan's daughter self-harmed for a short period and has developed other ways of coping with her problems. Susan would like more local, face-face, support for parents.
Susan is a 47 year old social worker. She lives with her partner and their daughter. Ethnic background: White British.
Jackie sees herself as a strong person and she stresses the importance of self-reliance in finding a way to cope with her teenage daughter's self-harming.
Jackie, aged 40, is married with two children. She is a care worker. Ethnic background: White/Scottish.
Tracey thinks the roots of her teenage son's self-harming lie in his early childhood, but she sees it as a complex experience with no easy answers.
Tracey is 52, married with two children. She works as a human resources officer. Ethnic background: White British.
Audrey's husband is 23 and has self-harmed since he was a teenager. Supporting him has been very hard but Audrey is committed to the relationship and to helping him recover.
Audrey is 30 years old, married with two children. She works as a manager in a bookmaker’s. Ethnic background: White Scottish.
Jane's daughter began cutting herself at the age of 15, while she was having treatment for an eating disorder. She hasn't cut for the last 4 years.
Jane is 54, married with three children. She is director of a charity. Ethnic background: White British.
Jo-Ann's daughter began cutting herself at the age of 11 but, looking back, Jo-Ann thinks some of her behaviour as a very young child was a form of self-harming. Jo-Ann has learned to understand the way her daughter sees the world and the fear that makes her self-harm.
Jo-Ann is 50, separated with one child. Ethnic background: White British.
Although she was shocked to discover her daughter's self-harming, at the age of 13, Roisin was able to understand her daughter's feelings and to find effective help for her. She is 17 at the time of interview and hasn't self-harmed for a year.
Ethnic background/nationality: White British.
Jim and his wife/partner discovered that their 14 year old daughter was self-harming a few months after she was diagnosed with an eating disorder. She is receiving treatment, compulsorily, but the disease is having a huge impact on all their lives.
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Dot was devastated when her, apparently happy, 15 year old daughter told her that she was cutting herself. Dot thinks that her daughter was helped by counselling. She herself was helped by getting information about self-harm from experts that she worked with at the time.
Ethnic background/nationality: White British.
Sharon's daughter is now 15 and started self-harming at around the age of 12. Sharon's own history gives her some understanding of her daughter's motivation to self-harm.
Sharon, age 37, is a lab technician. She is divorced and has two children. Ethnic background: White British.
