Self-Mutilation

by Mary E. Williams

This essential guidebook explores issues surrounding self-mutilation by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro versus con format. Across three chapters, readers will evaluate whether it is a serious problem, what factors cause people to hurt themselves, and how self-injurers can really be helped. Essayist Wendy Lader reports that body art is a form of self-mutilation while Shannon Larratt claims body art is a form of self-expression...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737741732
• ISBN13: 9780737741735
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 11