Self-injury videos: a concern to parents?

The popularity of YouTube videos containing key words "self-injury" and "self-harm" may normalize destructive behaviors among teens, but otherwise healthy teens who watch the videos aren't in danger. "The videos wouldn't get somebody who doesn't cut to start engaging in it," said Jonathan Singer, a social work professor at Temple, "but it might encourage somebody who is already doing that to either do it more intensely, more frequently, or even more publicly by videotaping and posting it on YouTube themselves," he said.
Feb. 24, 2011 | WHYY-FM