SELF HARM IN ADOLESCENCE

The work deals with self-harm as a maladaptive coping strategy. Emphasis is placed on adolescence as a risk period and on youth subcultures as a risk environment for emergence of this phenomenon. Attention is also paid to the internet and the real environment and their role in self-harm behavior. The aim was to identify possible causes of adolescent self-harm, who are part of the Emo subculture and any effect of the subculture of self-harm behaviors. Another objective was to find out where asolescents learned about this behavior and what is the role of ?social contagion?. The research was conducted qualitatively. Data were collected through semi-structured online interviews. These were conducted with four girls aged 13?15 years, who identify with the risk Emo subculture and have personal experience with self-harm. The data was then compiled into case studies of individual respondents. The research results showed that the causes of adolescent self-harm respondents are individual and there are always the role of several factors. Among these are: complicated relationships at home, problems at school, depression, loneliness and problematic relationship to own body. A direct link between the Emo subculture and self-harm, I didn´t discover. All respondents denied the influence of subculture. However, concerning the ?social contagion? self-harm behavior, this played the specific role by all respondents