Week 10 - Trauma-Informed Care

Question 1

an event or series of events, an experience or prolonged experiences, and/or a threat or perceived threats to a person’s well-being.

Answer 1

trauma

Question 2

the individual’s ___ ___ ___ can be negatively impacted by trauma.

Answer 2

daily coping mechanisms

Question 3

signals that act as signs of possible danger, based on historical traumatic experiences and which lead to a set of emotional, physiological and behavioral responses that arise in the service or survival and safety (sights, sounds, smells, touch)

Answer 3

triggers

Question 4

____ are all about one’s perceptions experienced as reality.

Answer 4

triggers

Question 5

a framework of thinking and interventions that are directed by a thorough understanding of the profound neurological, biological, psychological, and social effects trauma has on an individual - recognizing that person’s constant interdependent needs for safety, connections, and ways to manage emotions, impulses.

Answer 5

trauma-informed care

Question 6

name the 3 types of trauma.

Answer 6

• acute trauma (type I)
• complex trauma (type II)
• crossover trauma (type III)

Question 7

• results from exposure to a single overwhelming event.
• ex: rape, death of a loved one, natural disaster.
• characteristics: detailed memories, omens, hyper-vigilance, exaggerated startled response, misperceptions or overreactions

Answer 7

acute trauma (type I)

Question 8

• results from extended exposure to traumatizing situations.
• ex: prolonged exposure to violence or bullying, profound neglect, series of home removals.
• characteristics - denial and psychological numbing, dissociation, rage, social withdrawal, sense of foreshortened future

Answer 8

complex trauma (type II)

Question 9

• results from a single traumatic event that is devastating enough to have long-lasting effects.
• ex: mass casualty school shooting, car accident with fatalities involved, refugee dislocation.
• characteristics: perpetual mourning or depression, chronic pain, concentration problems, sleep disturbances, irritability

Answer 9

crossover trauma (type III)

Question 10

1 out of how many women will experience domestic violence and abuse in her lifetime?

Answer 10

4

Question 11

what is the largest victims’ services agency in the US?

Answer 11

Safe Horizon

Question 12

a form of violence that places or keeps people of color in conditions of hunger and poverty through the structural withholding of resources and opportunities, hyper-surveillance, and unjust incarceration inflicted on racialized individuals and communities.

Answer 12

systemic racism

Question 13

consists of interpersonal and individual interventions with a person’s physical, emotional, economic, or social wellbeing bc of biases against someone’s race, often in by way of access to public space, employment, housing, and healthcare.

Answer 13

racial discrimination

Question 14

an altered state of consciousness characterized by partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person’s normal conscious or psychological functioning. most commonly experienced as a subjective perception or one’s consciousness being detached from one’s emotions, body and/or immediate surroundings.

Answer 14

dissociation

Question 15

name the 5 dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV.

Answer 15

1. depersonalization disorder
2. dissociative amnesia
3. dissociative fugue
4. dissociative identity disorder
5. dissociative disorder not otherwise specified

Question 16

periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as “unreal” (lacking in control of or “outside of” self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.

Answer 16

depersonalization disorder

Question 17

noticeable impairment of recall resulting from emotional trauma

Answer 17

dissociative amnesia

Question 18

physical desertion of familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past. this may lead to confusion about actual identity and the assumption of a new identity.

Answer 18

dissociative fugue

Question 19

the alternation of two or more distinct personality states with impaired recall, among personality states, of important information.

Answer 19

dissociative identity disorder

Question 20

can be used for forms of pathological dissociation not covered by any of the specified dissociative disorders.

Answer 20

dissociative disorder not otherwise specified

Question 21

• vulnerable to being triggered by sensory stimulation, actions and thoughts related to the traumatic event.
• traumatic events re-experienced - recurrent and intrusive thoughts of the event, recurrent and distressing dreams, flashbacks, and dissociation

Answer 21

PTSD

Question 22

can be transferred in between generations; after a first generation of survivors experiences trauma, their trauma is transmitted to their children and further generations of offspring via complex PTSD mechanisms

Answer 22

transgenerational/intergenerational trauma

Question 23

name the 6 core principles of trauma informed care.

Answer 23

1. safety
2. trustworthiness
3. choice
4. collaboration
5. empowerment
6. respect for diversity

Question 24

constantly scanning environment

Answer 24

hypervigilance