Teenage years: Self-harm is a difficult, yet prevalent topic in the lives of many teenagers. Article covers ways in which parents can help their children.
Context:
- Expressing feelings to parents is difficult for many teenagers
- Teenagers who engage in self-harm do so when they are in their early teens
- Self-harm may be a result of experiencing overwhelming or intense feelings and pressures that that they do not know how to deal with – self harm serves as an emotional release
- The longer the practice is done, the longer it takes to move past them with both professional help and support from home
Advice given:
- Parents to do is to remain calm after finding out that their teens are harming themselves
- Although hesitant about approaching teen, it is important to have open conversations with them about their self-harm
- Straightforward and clear spoken
- Despite possible negative reactions, parents should not deem conversations as failed
- Teens need to know that their parents are aware of their self-harming behavior: it is the only way to that help can begin
- Frustration no behalf of the parent is a normal reaction, yet only positive ways to vent this frustration can help the recovery process
- Parents need to offer constant support
- Let them know that parents are there when they need them
- Teens need to know that talking to their parents is okay when their feelings are overwhelming
- Helping teens find activities to be involved in that can help distract them from self-harming tendencies
- Seek professional help: this is “non-negotiable”
- professional help will be necessary for teens to truly work through the issues that lead them to harm themselves
- can help teen to find coping strategies to use instead of self-harm
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