negatively impacts the development of brain systems that help to deactivate the body’s stress response system
What is childhood trauma?
A.C.E.s stands for...
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences
When a person is stressed out there frontal lobe disengages.
True or False
What is true?
Some children are exposed to traumatic events remain resilient because of protective factors.
True or False
What is true?
A Social Emotional Learning benefit that helps kids do better in school.
What are:
Creates a safer environment
Helps kids make closer connections with others
Teaches important life skills
Helps kids perform to their highest potential
A classroom behavior that results from trauma?
What is: reactivity and impulsivity, or aggression, or defiance, or perfectionism.
Living with only ONE or NO biological parents is an example of an adverse event?
True or False
What is true?
Stress can be positive.
True or False
What is true?
Name one social/environmental protective factor.
What are:
Mid to high socioeconomic status
Access to health care and social services
Parental employment
Participation in faith based activities
Good schools
Supportive adults
Providing the student an opportunity to use their voice and select what they want or need.
What is choice?
Common reactions to trauma include:
What are crying spells -anxiety - feeling numb - mood swings - panic attacks - trust issues - self-harm - drug use - insomnia or sleep issues - flashbacks - fidgety or hyperactivity - low self-esteem - depression
A person can have too little stress.
True or False?
What is true?
Name an academic performance deficit that results from prolonged stress:
What is: language and communication skills, or learning and retrieving new verbal information, or problem solving, or goal setting, or lack capacity for self regulation, and a distorted world view
Name one parental/family protective factor.
What are:
Positive and warm relationships
Supportive family environments
Clear boundaries and consistent follow-through
Help from extended family
Stable relationship with parents
Role models
Family expectations of pro-social skills
Parental education
A teacher can consider alternatives as to why a student might be acting in a certain way.
What is a trauma informed lense?
three types of stress
What are positive, tolerable, and toxic?
What is fight, flight, or freeze?
True or False
What is true?
Name one childhood protective factor.
What are:
Good health
Above average intelligence
Hobbies and interests
Good peer relationships
Personality factors
Ignoring stereotypes and biases is an example of this.
What is a cultural, historical, or gender issue?
the reptilian or primitive brain
What is downstairs brain?
90% of a child's brain develops before age ____.
What is "five"?
One out of three children have reported being exposed to violence.
True or False.
What is false? (Two out of three children have reported being exposed to violence.)
Protective factors fall into three basic categories. Name one.
What are:
Child Protective Factors
Parental/Family Protective Factors
Social/Environmental Protective Factors
Name two ways to incorporate SEL in the classroom.
What is:
Reading a story to the class ad discuss how characters might think or feel.
Assigning responsibilities and tasks to each student
Start the day with a positive affirmation.
Teaching mindfulness activities such as breathing
Do gratitude exercises
Journal exercises
Restorative Circles