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Self-Mutilation
Each year, 1 in 5 females and 1 in 7 males engage in self injury. This self injury is often a coping mechanism for far more serious issues. Enable your readers to engage in a necessary debate about this topic. The essays collected here are provided in a pro versus con sequence, so that readers can evaluate more than one side to every topic. Across four chapters, readers will examine whether self-mutilation is a serious problem, whether body modification falls within mutilation, what triggers self-mutilation, and what should be done to reduce self-mutilating behavior. Essay sources include Teen Vogue, LifeSIGNS, and the Cornell University Family Life Development Center.
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Review: Self-Mutilation...this Opposing Viewpoints volume does a thorough job of examining the issue. In the best sense, much of this volume is not Opposing Viewpoints per se, but rather, a deep examination of the topic through a variety of lenses. Highly recommended for high school, public and college libraries.Doug's Student Reference Room, May 2008RL
Grades
10-12+ IL
Grades
9-12+ 
