The Brain & Trauma
Chapters 1-2
Chapters 1-2
This part of the brain is heavily involved in detecting threats and responding to danger.
What is the amygdala?
This is the first step in Dr. Perry's sequence for helping someone who is emotionally overwhelmed.
What is regulate?
This word describes the ability to adapt and recover with the help of protective factors and supportive experiences.
What is resilience?
These automatic associations can influence our judgements even when we are not consciously aware of them.
What are implicit biases?
This question replaces 'What's wrong with you?' and serves as the title of the book.
What is 'What Happened to You?'
These three common automatic survival responses can occur when someone perceives danger.
What are fight, flight, and freeze?
After regulation, this second step emphasizes emotional connection and attunement.
What is relate?
This kind of consistent interpersonal experience can help people develop trust and recover from adversity.
What are safe, supportive relationships?
This term describes the human need for meaningful and dependable connection.
What is relational hunger?
This principle involves providing understandable information, consistency, and honesty to build trust.
What is trustworthiness and transparency?
This term describes the brain's capacity to change and reorganize in response to experiences.
What is neuroplasticity?
This is the third step, when problem-solving, reflection, and learning become more accessible.
What is reason?
This term describes the process by which the brain and body respond to demands or perceived threats.
What is the stress response?
Dr. Perry uses this concept to emphasize the value of a person's dependable and supportive relationships.
What is relational wealth?
This trauma-informed principle gives clients meaningful participation in decisions affecting their lives.
What is empowerment, voice, and choice?
Dr. Perry emphasizes that the brain develops in this general direction, with lower regulatory systems developing before higher cortical systems.
What is bottom-up development?
A practitioner speaks calmly, offers space, and avoids demanding immediate explanations is prioritizing this process.
What is co-regulation?
This concept recognizes that growth and insight may emerge after adversity, without suggesting that trauma itself was beneficial or necessary.
What is post-traumatic wisdom?
This condition involves a lack of meaningful connection and can contribute to prolonged stress.
What is social isolation or loneliness?
A teacher recognizes that a student's disruptive behavior may reflect a stress response rather than intentional disrespect. This illustrates what professional perspective?
What is a trauma-informed perspective?
A child becomes hypervigilant after repeated exposure to violence illustrates this process, in which the stress-response system becomes adapted to a threatening environment.
What is stress-response sensitization?
A student is highly distressed after a conflict. The professor demands an immediate written explanation. Identify the problem with this approach.
What is attempting to reason before regulating and relating?
A client says, 'I survived because I learned not to trust anyone.' Name the trauma-informed approach that acknowledges this survival strategy while helping the client build new experiences of safety.
What is a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach?
An agency has equal appointment rules for everyone, but the rules disproportionately exclude clients with transportation or housing barriers. Name the broader issue the agency should examine.
What are system barriers or institutional equity?
A community wants to reduce trauma's long-term impact. It funds early childhood support, mentoring, caregiver resources, and accessible services. Name the two broad strategies represented.
What are prevention and community-level trauma-informed intervention?