Archives for: April 2009
helping teens who cut by Michael Hollander
My god my god where did such behavior ever come from? Hollander shares 20 years of experience helping over emotional teens and their parents learn alternative strategies to short circuit cutting episodes. Through adaptive case studies he demonstrates who the teens are that cut themselves and why these teens cut. In my reading he demonstrates that emotional sensitive teens unable to manage a stressful situation resort to self harming to release the tension. Parents seeking to help their children in such situations often unintentionally exacerbate the event through misplaced intervention.
Hollander strategies with such parents to help them learn how to assist their child to break the cutting cycle.
A sad read, but it's a real world out there. Where is christianity in all of this? How we so removed ourselves from the society in which we live that we cannot see the need?
