Cutting and Self-mutilation: When Teens Injure Themselves

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Enslow Pub., 2003 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 64 pages
Focusing on the problems that face teens today, this series offers no-nonsense discussions in very frank language useful for reports and personal insights. Each title contains chapter notes, names of helpful organizations, a further reading list, Internet addresses, and an index.In Cutting and Self-Mutilation: When Teens Injure Themselves, author Kathleen Winkler explains what cutting is and explores why teens might deliberately injure themselves. Winkler stresses that cutting is a curable condition. She offers readers suggestions about where to find help or how to help others.

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Contents

Parkers Story
7
Why Do People Do This?
21
Dangers in SelfInjury
34
Copyright

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