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Journal of Clinical and
Basic Psychosomatics Seeking common ground while reserving differences

emotional endurance, and supports psychological growth Guangdong Medical Science and Technology Research
– similar to dialectical behavior therapy, which has also Fund (A2023194).
demonstrated success in treating NSSI. 36,37 Finally, positive
interpersonal interactions were achieved by encouraging Conflict of interest
communication with parents through mutual influence The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
during group discussions. 38,39 The concept of SCGWRD
has influenced countless individuals people from ancient Author contributions
times to the present, which also supports the claim that the Conceptualization: All authors
earliest CBT originated in China. 40
Formal analysis: Huipeng Lu, Yuanyuan Hu
Therefore, the innovation of this study lies in the novel Investigation: Jianli Zhu, Hongli Niu, Su Yan, Yuanyuan Hu
application of SCGWRD – a concept rooted in traditional Methodology: Xianrui Li, Jie Zhang
Chinese culture that emphasizes regulating interpersonal Supervision: Xianrui Li
conflict and fostering harmonious relationships – to the Writing – original draft: Jianli Zhu
psychological intervention of parent–child conflict in Writing – review & editing: Jie Zhang, Jing Hu
adolescents with NSSI. This was achieved through the
construction of a modern clinical paradigm for translating Ethics approval and consent to participate
traditional cultural elements into therapeutic practice. In The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration
fact, with regard to psychotherapeutic techniques, there of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics
is no inherent superiority or inferiority. Therefore, we do Committee of Zhongshan Third People’s Hospital (Project
not reject Western psychotherapeutic approaches. On the identification code: SSYLL-KY-20240510). All participants
contrary, we hope that future research will combine tradition and/or their guardians gave consent to participate in this
and innovation. For example, just as Professors Cao et al. study.
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founded Taoist Cognitive Psychotherapy and Professor
Zhang and Yuan proposed balancing psychotherapy, our Consent for publication
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goal is to enrich localized psychotherapeutic techniques
and provide new ideas for addressing contemporary All participants and/or their guardians consented on the
mental health challenges. publication of their data.

5. Limitation Availability of data
The intervention in this study was limited to NSSI Data used in this work are available from the corresponding
adolescents with accompanying parent–child conflict. author on reasonable request.
Indicators such as pre- and post-intervention mood were
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