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21 May Posted by in Motivation | Comments

Why You Don’t Want to Use Scary Tactics to Train Your Dog

Average: Your rating: None Sue and Pete just can’t figure it out. Their once housetrained, calm dog has become psychotic. Dear Suzie is now peeing all over the house, cowers and shakes when the phone rings and goes into an absolute panic when the smoke detector (www.firstalert.com) starts tweeting when the battery is getting low....

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13 Sep Posted by in Mental Health, Teens | Comments

Cutting and Self-Mutalation Facts, Statistics, & Help

Cutting and Self-Mutalation Facts, Statistics, & Help

As a school counselor, I am very concerned about the growing trend I am seeing in cutting, self-injury and self-mutalation.  The largest number of readers posting on ScottCounseling come here as cutters, parents of cutters and former self-mutilators seeking to help current cutters. The act of cutting involves an individual intentionally making cuts, scratches or...

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23 Nov Posted by in Mental Health, Teens | 4 comments

How to Help My Child Stop Cutting

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...

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09 Feb Posted by in Mental Health, Teens | 11 comments

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...

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06 Feb Posted by in Mental Health, Rx & Medical | 125 comments

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...

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