Systemic family therapy is not superior to treatment as usual in preventing repeat self-harm in adolescents

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Shilpa Aggarwal. Evid Based Ment Health. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;22(2):e9.

doi: 10.1136/ebmental-2018-300056. Epub 2019 Mar 2.

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Competing interests: None declared.

Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
Cottrell DJ, Wright-Hughes A, Collinson M, Boston P, Eisler I, Fortune S, Graham EH, Green J, House AO, Kerfoot M, Owens DW, Saloniki EC, Simic M, Lambert F, Rothwell J, Tubeuf S, Farrin AJ. Cottrell DJ, et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2018 Mar;5(3):203-216. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30058-0. Epub 2018 Feb 12. Lancet Psychiatry. 2018. PMID: 29449180 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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