Mastering Coping Skills for Teen Emotional Resilience

Trauma in Teens: What You Need to Know Trauma comes in all shapes and sizes. Something that one teen considers traumatic may not be traumatic for another teen. However, coping with trauma for teens involves using the same behavioral and mental strategies to manage all types of stressful events. Understanding Coping Mechanism What is the […]
The Impact of Teen Trafficking: Support and Recovery Strategies

Human trafficking inflicts severe psychological, emotional, and physical wounds on teen victims that require lifelong professional treatment and counseling. Many trafficked teens experience multiple forms of abuse that lead to long-term health problems, sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancies. While all trafficking cases represent the worst form of abuse that one human could do to […]
Trauma Signs, Sources & Therapies to Help Your Teen

Understanding Teen Trauma: Identifying Signs and Seeking Help for Your Child Trauma is on the rise among teenagers. As many as 43% of young people have experienced at least one traumatic event. After suffering trauma, regardless of the cause, children have an increased risk for panic disorders, anxiety, and depression. The ongoing effects of trauma […]
How Unresolved Trauma Affects Parenting
& Teens: What to Do

Is Your Parenting Style Causing Your Teen’s Emotional Trauma? The past is in the past, but the effects of your past actually impact you today. For most adults, the past affects their parenting style. If you have unresolved trauma, you could be inflicting trauma on your teenager without even realizing it. Here’s a closer look […]
Understanding the Impact and Treatment of Childhood Traumatic Events

Trauma and Kids – How Stress and PTSD Affect Young People, and What Parents Can Do In 2021, the Surgeon General issued an advisory about youth and their mental health. In the advisory, the government warned that an increasing number of children and adolescents were struggling with mental health concerns. The fact that the mental […]
Abandonment Trauma: How to Get Help for Your Adolescent Before Things Get Worse

What is Abandonment Trauma? Everybody has read stories about so-called “feral” children who somehow survived alone in remote areas of the world. When discovered, these children could not speak, presented minimal development of emotions beyond fear and distrust, and resisted psychological and life skills therapy. Even severely neglected children who have had the least possible […]
The Link Between Love Obsessive Disorder and Childhood Trauma

What Causes Obsessive Love Disorder (OLD) and how is it linked to childhood trauma? What are the signs
How to Recognize Teen Trauma Response Disguised as Bad Behavior

Children and teenagers are more prone to trauma than many adults understand. The effects of trauma in children can often be seen in the teen trauma responses like bad behavior or actions. They may not show any signs of the event happening, but they can still be traumatized by it. Trauma Response or Bad Behavior Young […]