self-injury Tag Entries:
How to Help My Child Stop Cutting
This is the fifth ScottCounseling article on cutting and self-injury . This article focuses on some step-by-step approaches parents and cutters can use as strategies to put an end to the behavior of cutting. Other cutting articles by ScottCounseling include:
Cutting: Self Injury Facts & Statistics
What is Cutting & Self Injury?
Why Do People Cut or Self Injure?
Treatment For Cutting or Self Injury
Steps To Take To End Cutting & Self […]
Treatment For Cutting or Self-Injury
How to Help a Friend or Family Member Who Cuts or Practices Self-Injury
It is often very hard to come to terms with the fact that someone you care about is physically hurting themselves. There are, however, things that you can do and steps to take.
Below are some helpful tips to help someone who self-injures:
- Understand that self-harming behavior is about control- which in and of itself […]
Why Do Teens Cut or Self-Injure?
The act of “ cutting” or making scratches on arms, legs or other body parts is not a halfhearted attempt at suicide. In fact, it’s an effort by the self-injury individual to feel alive. Individuals who cut or self-injure often perform this act as a way to handle life, not to die, or end the life. Placing Cuts on the body is not the only way […]
What is Cutting & Self-Injury?
Statistics on teen cutting are hard to come by because so few studies have been done on the subject. In 2002, the British Medical Journal published an article that found 13 percent of British 15- and 16-year-olds purposely injured themselves. In the United States, best estimates indicate that one in every 200 girls between 13 and 19 years old, or one-half of one percent, cut themselves regularly. […]
Cutting: Self-Injury Facts & Statistics
Self-Injury Behavior
Over the past year, one in five females and one in seven males have engaged in some form of self-injury type behavior. The growing concern of “cutting” is now on the forefront of many mental health agencies, schools and youth leaders concerns for young adults today. This article provides the reader with some basic facts and statistics on this interesting, but often scary […]
