Mental Trauma of Adolescents and Corresponding Interventions

Post-trauma responses of adolescents are of certain unique characteristics: (1) Emotion: high-level anxiety and depression can be observed. (2) Cognition: internal and external negative cognition persists; memory suffers certain degree of impairment, especially in term of the verbal memory. (3) Will: autistic, withdrawn, lacking in living momentum and typical of a stronger introversion tendency. (4) Behavior: adolescents are liable to some unhealthy habits, e.g., peer bullying and victimization. Interventions are comprised of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Spiritual-Hypnosis Assisted Therapy, Symptom Monitoring, and Multidimensional Family Therapy etc.