Grief Counseling for Teenagers

It is crucial to provide Grief Counseling for Teenagers after trauma occurs.  The long-term adverse effects of trauma can destroy a young life.  Adolescent Trauma can create feelings of being unsafe, which leads to feelings of being overwhelmed, which will impair emotional responses, sometimes to the point of emotional and behavioral disability. In the case of adolescent trauma, the best approach is to provide immediate professional counseling before major issues materialize.

Today's society is more traumatizing than ever before.  Our teens are inundated with emotional and physical traumatizing events through television, Internet, movies, and in real life.  Watching the nightly news can be traumatizing in and of itself. Today our middle and high school schools have police officers on staff; some inner city schools have metal detectors that students must pass through before entering the school.  School shootings and other public massacres are common events that kids watch on television all the time.

Counseling for Adolescent Trauma

Adolescent trauma is either physical or psychological trauma. Adolescent Trauma includes physical, sexual, emotional, and verbal abuse. So often we hear of infants, children, and adolescents hurt by their caregivers, parents, or guardians. The long-range effects of the trauma to the minor are complex and sometimes difficult to diagnose and treat.