Tonja Krautter

What Every Parent Needs to Know About Self-Injury

Tonja Krautter

Your Child Self-Injures – Now What?Self-injury is a physical expression of emotional pain. Also called cutting, and “the bright red scream,†self-harm is increasingly prevalent in our society today. For parents, discovering that a child they have protected since birth is choosing to self-injure is bewildering and terrifying. Psychologist and adolescent specialist Dr. Tonja H. Krautter has the answers parents need to understand self-injury, and guide their child through intervention, treatment, and recovery including: (1) The most common reasons why individuals self-injure, (2) Risk assessment questions to determine whether your child needs professional intervention, (3) Insight into the thoughts and feelings associated with self-injury, (4) How to get a resistant child into therapy, and (5) a review of the most effective treatment options.Combining clinical expertise with real-life examples, Dr. Krautter helps parents understand why their child is initiating this behavior, what needs it fulfills, and how to help them find healthy alternatives. About the AuthorDr. Tonja H. Krautter is a licensed clinical psychologist as well as a licensed clinical social worker. She is dedicated to the mental health field and to providing people in need with the highest standard of care. She concentrates her work on extreme case matters, including eating disorders, self-mutilation, and sexual assault. Professionally, Dr. Krautter has served in the roles of clinical supervisor, program director, workshop leader, professor, and author. When not working, she devotes her time to her family. She has a supportive, loving husband and two beautiful sons.

What Every Parent Needs to Know About

Tonja Krautter

Identification and understanding of the emerging sexual trends among our youth can leave a family feeling frustrated, frightened, confused, and defeated. We have a new sexual movement occurring in our culture. We are witnessing first hand a dramatic cultural shift in regards to sex and sexual relationships. It is important that we become educated about it. The sexual trends that are emerging in our society are alarming to say the least. However, perhaps what is even more alarming is the fact that most adults are unaware that they exist. What Every Parent Needs to Know About Emerging Sexual Trends Among our Youth, by Dr. Tonja H. Krautter, focuses on what the trends are and why we are seeing them emerge in our society. In addition, the book focuses on how to avoid the emergence of these trends and how to deal with them if a child is currently engaging in sexual activity. The book will provide answers to the many commonly asked questions by parents regarding what to do if their minor child is thinking about sex or is already engaging in sexual activity. It is my hope that upon completion of the book, every reader will have a more thorough understanding of the complexities of our culture’s emerging sexual trends and therefore, be better equipped to work toward prevention and intervention. By acknowledging the dramatic shift that we are witnessing, we as a society will be afforded the opportunity to help our children in both positive and healthy ways not only in regards to sex, but in all areas of their lives.