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Alarming Rise in Number of Young Adult Self-Injurers
The June issue of Pediatrics, reports on the alarming findings of a new study on thousands of college age kids who engage regularly in harming themselves. Young men and women are repeating self-injuring themselves by cutting, biting, bruising, purposely breaking their bones and picking at their own skin and hair. Of the nearly 3,000 students surveyed at two colleges, researchers found that approximately 17% of students have purposely hurt themselves and more than 75% have done it more than once. Sometimes students caused injuries serious enough to require professional medical attention. Experts say that self-injurers must seek professional counseling to help them work through the underlying causes of their behaviors. Read more online at
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/05/injury.
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