QUIZ 1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
MINDFULNESS
-WHAT Skills-
1. Observe
OR
2. Describe
OR
3. Participate
Use ONE WHAT skill at a time
MINDFULNESS
-HOW Skills-
1. Nonjudgmental
AND
2. Single minded - using 5 senses
AND
3. Effective - To do just what is needed
Use ALL HOW skills together
WHAT IS DIALECTIC TRAUMA?
- Intrusion
- Constriction
- Hyperarousal
- Individual moves between intrusion &constriction at all times
- The wanting to know (Intrusion) and the silencing (Constriction)
- Hyper-arousal is all the time
INTRUSION
- Flashbacks
- Traumatic memories
- Nightmares
- Repetition compulsion (EX calling)
- Reenactments (EX visiting location)
CONSTRICTION
- Numbing
- Shutting down
- Being frozen
- Isolation/seclusion
- Restricting
DISASSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
- Is a spectrum
- Body is there— mind is not
DAMAGED SELF
- Body is not theirs
- Lack of Autonomy
- Helplessness
GUILT
- Related to embarrassment
- Guilty about doing an act
SHAME
- Core of a person
- Feeling tarnished
PHASES OF TRAUMA
- Safety & Stabilization
- Memory and Mourning
- Reconnection
-Important to know what phase person is in
I. SAFETY AND STABILIZATION
- Get out of harmful situation
- Making sure client has the tools that they need to regulate emotions/body
SOMATIC REGULATION
Regulating emotions/body
II. MEMORY AND MOURNING
-Working with
trauma story & grieving the loss
-Doesn’t happen until person has worked through phase I. - safety stabilization phase
III. RECONNECTION
- With self and others
- Supports —-> Expand living
COMPLEX PTSD
- Prolonged
- Systematic or pattern
- Compounded events
- Harder to have healthy psychobiological development-EX - Domestic Violence
PTSD
- Single event trauma
- Out of the blue
- EX - Speaker falling on students
LEARNING BRAIN
- Seeking outward
- Exploration
- Ability to self reflect/self awareness
- Ability to have relationships with others
SURVIVAL BRAIN
- Fight/Flight/Freeze
- Focused on safety
- Seeks to identify threats
- Fear and elevated cortisol levels
What are factors that can make an individual more vulnerable to Complex Trauma symptoms?
- Already experiencing PTSD
- Attachment difficulties
- Cumulative adversities
- Relationship between perpetrator and victim
- Repetitive exposure
What is Developmental Trauma Disorder?
- Identifies interpersonal trauma & subjective reactions specific to fear and shame
- Developmentally critical periods (early childhood & adolescence)
Why is it important to understand the effects of trauma in infancy and early childhood?
- Allows us to be compassionate instead of judgemental
- Neural pathways are being created and strengthened during this time
