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Self Harming & Cutting in Elementary Schools

2018

Please watch and see how many of these Elementary students hands get raised when asked about self harming in their school!

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Evaluating the Effects of Medication

When a medication is being evaluated to modify the behavior of a person with autism, one must assess the risks versus the benefits.

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Temple Grandin
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Supporting Positive Behavior in Children and Teens with Down Syndrome: The Respond But Don’t React Method

A child doesn’t want to leave the toy store, so he stops and flops. Another bolts across a busy parking lot, turns and smiles at his mom. An eighteen-year-old student bursts into tears when asked to change activities at school.

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David Stein
2025
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The Parent’s Guide to Down Syndrome: Advice, Information, Inspiration, and Support for Raising Your Child from Diagnosis through Adulthood

As a parent of a child diagnosed with Down syndrome, you may be feeling unsure of what to do next or where your child’s journey will take you.

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Jennifer Jacob, Mardra Sikora
2025
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Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Seeing your child suffer in any way is a harrowing experience for any parent. Mental illness in children can be particularly draining due to the mystery surrounding it, and the issue of diagnosis at such a tender age.

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Deborah Serani
2015
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

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Anne Fadiman
2012
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Teens Talk About Cutting

We get lots of emails, especially about our articles on cutting. Sometimes people tell us about the feelings and emotions that surround cutting. Others share their ideas on how they stopped. We decided to put some of these suggestions and comments on our site.

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D'Arcy Lyness (Reviewer)
2016
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Cutting and Self-Harm Behaviors in Teens

These behaviors are more common than you might think with an estimated range of 6.4% to 30.8% of teens admitting to trying to harm themselves.

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Vincent Iannelli
2020
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When Your Child Is Cutting: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury

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.

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Sony Khemlani-Patel, Merry McVey-Noble, Fugen Neziroglu
2006
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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self

Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal.

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Lori G. Plante
2010
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The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children.

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Martin E. P. Seligman
2007
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