When Your Child is Cutting: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury

About this book

A Compassionate Guide for Parents As a parent whats harder to deal with than seeing your child in pain? Its especially frustrating when you feel like youve exhausted the resources you could use to help him or her stop hurting. And if your child is cutting or engaging in another form of self-injury a behavior that you simply cant make any sense of in the first place this feeling of helplessness can be unbearable. This book offers you information and advice for dealing with a child who is hurting him or herself. Learn why self-injury happens how to identify it and how to address this sensitive topic with calm and confidence. Follow the books clear and simple plan for communicating with your child about this problem. Connect with the best kinds of professional help to get him or her through this painful time. Above all rely on this compassionate and clinically sound book to give you the one thing you really need when your child is in pain-hope. Learn about the causes and effects of self-injury Identify the signs of self-harm Communicate effectively with a child who is hurting him or herself Choose the best professional help Support your childs recovery