Attachment
Regulation
Competency
Strategies
100

The earliest relationship(s) built between the child and their primary caregiver, which provides a model for all other relationships. 

What is attachment system

100

These three survival responses can make it difficult for a youth to regulate their state of being (emotions, energy, etc)

What is fight, flight, or freeze?
100

This is defined as using higher-order cognitive processes to solve problems and make active choices in service of reaching identified goals 

What is executive functioning?

100

Understanding triggers is a strategy used to become ____________ with the youth's state of being.

What is attuned?
200

A process through which the caregiver's internal experience becomes affected by engagement in the child's trauma material. 

What is vicarious trauma?

200

This concept refers to building awareness of internal experience, the ability to differentiate and name emotional and physiological states, and an understanding of why these states occur

What is affect identification?

200

In ARC, this concept is defined as supporting youth in exploring and building an understanding of self and personal identity.

Includes identification of unique and positive qualities, building of coherence across time & experience and support in the capacity to imagine and work toward a range of future possibilities.

What is Identity?

200

An individualized plan in a therapeutic milieu should support the youth in acquiring skills that support their goals and needs, as well as create a consistency in the way caregivers respond. This strategy is an example of __________________.

What is effective response?

300

The function of this concept is to help caregivers understand the child's cues (danger responses) and to help the child accurately read the caregiver's response.

What is attunement?

300

This concept is defined at working with the youth to develop safe and effective strategies to manage and regulate physiological responses and emotional experience in service of maintaining a comfortable and effective state of arousal

What is modulation?

300

At the top of the ARC house, this is the ability to reflect, explore and integrate historical experiences  and make meaning out of those experiences to ultimately shift and transform them, allowing active engagement in present experiences and present life. 

What is trauma integration?

300

Grounding techniques, breathing exercise, tactile engagement and music are examples of strategies that can be used to support ____________.

What is modulation?

400

For children who have experienced trauma at the hands of their caregivers, limits may have historically been associated with powerlessness and intense vulnerability. In the therapeutic milieu, we use this skill to create consistency and safety in the caregiver relationship. 

What is effective response? 

400

This "Regulation" concept refers to helping youth build the skills, confidence and tolerance for effectively sharing internal experience with others. 

What is Expression?

400
These emerge across many domains throughout childhood such as cognitive, interpersonal, emotional, and physical/motor

What are developmental competencies?

400

Our clinical tools such as My Story, Ecomaps, as well as our IPR (life goals) are used as ways to strengthen_____________.

What is Identity?

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