Document Type

Parenting, Children and Teens - Spotlighting Teen Issues for Parents

Publication Date

7-2006

Abstract

Cutting is one of several types of self-injurious behaviors that some teens and young adults may practice. Self-injury is the deliberate mutilation of a body part with the purpose of managing emotions that are perceived as too painful to express with words.

Publication Number

SP681-S 7/06 07-0010

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