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When parents disagree on how to handle a child's self-harm

My teenage daughter is cutting herself and my husband thinks we should handle it as a family while I think she needs professional help immediately, and she's playing us against each other because she knows we disagree.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A child's crisis reveals the parents' different relationships to vulnerability, professional help, and family privacy, creating fractures precisely when unity is most needed.

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“Where Are You with Prevention — building psychological health before crisis?”

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