CONTEMPORARY CULTURE: YOUTH ISSUES - SELF-MUTILATION
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Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut: Learning to Understand and Help Those Who Self-Injure. Marv Penner. Zondervan/YouthSpecialties, 2008.
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation. Steven Levenkron. W.W. Norton, 1998. Parents, teachers, youth workers and anyone in contact with teens must read this book. It is extremely informative on a subject many know little about and, most importantly, provides helpful information on how to reach out to those who cut.
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain. Marilee Strong. Viking, 1998. An overview of the growing problem of self-injurious behavior (cutting) in today's youth culture.The first-person accounts offer good insight into the problem.
Bodily Harm. Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader. Hyperion, 1998. Another good overview of the growing problem of self-mutilation among children, teens, and adults.
Augusta Gone: A True Story. Martha Tod Dudman. Simon and Schuster, 2001. A single mother who has raised two teenagers shares the agony of seeing her family crumble and watching her 15-year-old daughter Augusta go from being a sweet little girl, to a teenager involved in all sorts of destrcutive behavior. No happy ending, but an instructive book.