Self-harm in older school age children in the context of family and social relationships

The thesis focuses on self-harm in children and possible link between self-harm and close relationships of the child. In the first chapter of literary review I deal with the definition of the term of self-harm and general characteristics of this behavior. The next chapter focuses on the description of the older school age and last chapter of the literary review deals with the psychosocial field of self-harm. This thesis emphasis family background of the child. Self-harm is discussed from the perspective of external causes in this work, not as a result of mental disorder. In the second part, I propose a research project that aims to describe the occurrence of self-harm and to find out the possible context between the presence of self-harm and the parenting style of upbringing. Keywords self-harm in children, adolescence, family, social relationship