A study of Hungarian adolescent outpatients suffering from self-injurious behaviour.

In this pilot study (Study A), the authors administered the Hungarian standard version of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the translated version of the Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) to students of 3 educational facilities in a county town. Fourteen to eighteen year old pupils were tested in order to measure the key symptoms of depression and the frequency and characteristics of self-injurious behaviour among this sample of the high school population. Twentysix youngsters were found to have had any form of self-injurious actions in their life-time.

[A comparison of dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies in Hungarian adolescents suffering from certain child psychiatric disorders].

Introduction: The evaluation of dysfunctional attitudes and coping mechanisms to identify specific characteristics of certain psychiatric diseases is an important research objective also in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Method: Authors compared dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies of various monodiagnostic groups recruited from a sample of 158 adolescent outpatients (54 males, mean age 16.0 SD 1.