Monday, July 30, 2012
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Kevin Wing, Director of Counseling Services at Montcalm School in Michigan, spoke for an hour with Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio on the impact of trauma on teenagers.
Background
Kevin spent 22 years at Starr Commonwealth, where he worked in various jobs, including working as an outpatient specialist and as an intensive in-home counseling professional. He also worked as an Intake Director for the Starr Commonwealth programs in Albion, Michigan, before joining Montcalm School. In 1979, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University, and then in 1984 he acquired his master's qualification in social work from Michigan State University.
Montcalm School for Boys and Girls is a private, therapeutic boarding school located in Albion, Michigan, and it is a program of Starr Commonwealth. The school works with boys between the ages of twelve to twenty-one and girls between the ages of twelve to eighteen. It offers a variety of structured transitional living programs aimed to help students recover from emotional difficulties and get back on track academically.
What Is Trauma?
The discussion focused on mental trauma, which includes thoughts of imminent danger and painful feelings like helplessness, hopelessness, and powerlessness. Besides affecting thoughts and feelings, trauma can produce numerous behavioral issues like withdrawal, irritability, aggression, chronic stress and hypervigilance.
While people often think of trauma as a result of direct experience, it can also be the result of a vicarious experience. Kevin explained that the recent Aurora shooting in a movie house theater could have traumatized even adults and children who repeatedly heard about the tragedy on the news.
Often trauma in teenagers can be effectively handled in private treatment. Having said that, residential treatment for traumatized teens is essential if there are repeated incidents of detrimental behavior, some of it harmful to self as well as others. Dangerous behavior could include self-cutting, drug abuse, severe withdrawal, out-of-control rebellious conduct, or joining a menacing street gang.
Final Thoughts
The talk show dealt with the many features typical of traumatization, from reviewing causes to identifying visible outcomes. It even talked about what to look for to recognize a trauma victim and just how excessive emotional stress adversely impacts the amygdala in the brain. Overall, the conversation produced a thorough perspective of precisely how trauma detrimentally impacts young people and just how specialized trauma therapy in a residential treatment home can assist them to reconstruct their lives.
Interview by Lon Woodbury
Kevin Wing, Director of Counseling Services at Montcalm School in Michigan, spoke for an hour with Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio on the impact of trauma on teenagers.
Background
Kevin spent 22 years at Starr Commonwealth, where he worked in various jobs, including working as an outpatient specialist and as an intensive in-home counseling professional. He also worked as an Intake Director for the Starr Commonwealth programs in Albion, Michigan, before joining Montcalm School. In 1979, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University, and then in 1984 he acquired his master's qualification in social work from Michigan State University.
Montcalm School for Boys and Girls is a private, therapeutic boarding school located in Albion, Michigan, and it is a program of Starr Commonwealth. The school works with boys between the ages of twelve to twenty-one and girls between the ages of twelve to eighteen. It offers a variety of structured transitional living programs aimed to help students recover from emotional difficulties and get back on track academically.
What Is Trauma?
The discussion focused on mental trauma, which includes thoughts of imminent danger and painful feelings like helplessness, hopelessness, and powerlessness. Besides affecting thoughts and feelings, trauma can produce numerous behavioral issues like withdrawal, irritability, aggression, chronic stress and hypervigilance.
While people often think of trauma as a result of direct experience, it can also be the result of a vicarious experience. Kevin explained that the recent Aurora shooting in a movie house theater could have traumatized even adults and children who repeatedly heard about the tragedy on the news.
Often trauma in teenagers can be effectively handled in private treatment. Having said that, residential treatment for traumatized teens is essential if there are repeated incidents of detrimental behavior, some of it harmful to self as well as others. Dangerous behavior could include self-cutting, drug abuse, severe withdrawal, out-of-control rebellious conduct, or joining a menacing street gang.
Final Thoughts
The talk show dealt with the many features typical of traumatization, from reviewing causes to identifying visible outcomes. It even talked about what to look for to recognize a trauma victim and just how excessive emotional stress adversely impacts the amygdala in the brain. Overall, the conversation produced a thorough perspective of precisely how trauma detrimentally impacts young people and just how specialized trauma therapy in a residential treatment home can assist them to reconstruct their lives.
About the Author:
The founder of www.strugglingteens.com, Lon Woodbury has the recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show which you can to listen to at any time.
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