RESPONSES
Name & define the 4 trauma responses to danger.
Fight
Flight
Freeze
Submit (Fawn)
After getting to know a child, most behaviors make sense.
TRUE
RESILIENCE
“The process of adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances”
Attachment
Connection to other human beings.
What two factors do the building blocks target?
1. The building of a safe relationship between the child and their caregiving system
2. Building skills that the child can use to support healthy development.
What are the two factors that have helped to shape behavioral responses?
The presence or threat of danger, often on an ongoing basis
The absence of physical emotional, relational, & environmental needs.
Youth can only be as safe as their surrounding systems
TRUE.
TRIGGERS
Signals that act as a sign of possible danger, based on traumatic experiences.
Attunement
The capacity of caregivers to accurately read children’s cues and respond appropriately
Name a building block from each of the three domains (Attachment, Regulation & Competency) of intervention.
Name the 3 trauma responses to neglect.
CLUE: It is NOT fight, flight, freeze or submit
Emotional, Relational and Physical Responses/Behavior.
ARC is a manual of protocols for interventions.
FALSE
TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
Events that involve experiencing or observing actual or threatened death, injury, or violence.
Caregiver Affect Management
When the caregiver’s ability to provided needed support to their children is affected by the caregiver’s ability to effectively manage their own experiences.
What are the targeted skills of modulation building block?
1. Building an understanding of types of feelings
2. Building toleration and moving through arousal states
What danger response is most readily available to small children?
Freeze
Studies have found that the most consistent predictor of resilience for high-risk children is a safe, nurturant bond with a positive group of people
FALSE
The ability to, safely and effectively, manage experience on many levels.
Regulation
Understanding the context behind a person’s behavioral patterns.
Formulation
Many children who experience trauma struggle with the ability to, safely and effectively, communicate internal experience, building connection or tolerate relationship. Which building block is this?
Relational Connection
Give an example of EACH of the 4 trauma responses to danger.
FIGHT
FLIGHT
FREEZE
SUBMIT
Your brain can tell the objective reality of a specific danger; especially if it's unreasonable.
FALSE.
Working with children to actively explore, process, and integrate experiences into an understanding of self in order to enhance children’s capacity to effectively engage in present life.
Trauma Experience Integration
Trauma that varies in type, source, chronicity, impact, developmental stages; and happens within different contexts including family, community and culture.
Complex Developmental Trauma
Name & define the 4 aspects targeted for self & identity
The Unique Self
The Positive Self
The Coherent Self
The Future Self