Parent Choices For Struggling Teens

Kevin Wing, 517-630-2307, wingk@starr.org, Director of Counseling With Montcalm School-MI, part of Starr Commonwealth, 866-244-4321, www.montcalmschool.org. a Coed Therapeutic Boarding School. Since the term "trauma" has entered pop culture and overused, Kevin took care to precisely define trauma as being a change in a person's behavior and attitudes that are self-defeating. He continued to describe some common transitions that can traumatize a child, and how parents can help a child who might have been traumatized by some event.