Indigenous Communities
This system forcibly removed roughly 150,000 Indigenous children from their families.
Answer: What are residential schools?
This happens when a worker unconsciously mirrors a client’s emotional state.
Answer: What is emotional contagion?
This DSM-5 term refers to problematic use that causes impairment and distress.
Answer: What is a substance use disorder?
This federal law outlines four key rights for victims: information, protection, participation, and restitution.
Answer: What is the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights (CVBR)?
This type of disorder includes symptoms caused directly by substances, such as withdrawal delirium or intoxication psychosis.
Answer: What are substance-induced disorders?
This long-term outcome of colonial harm is passed across generations and affects identity, attachment, and wellbeing.
Answer: What is intergenerational trauma?
This trauma-exposure response involves a shift in worldview, intrusive thoughts, and avoidance linked to hearing others’ trauma.
Answer: What is vicarious trauma?
This term describes mental illness and addiction occurring simultaneously.
Answer: What are concurrent disorders?
These individuals can act on behalf of a deceased victim under the CVBR.
Answer: Who are spouses, common-law partners, relatives, or those with custody of the victim?
Answer: what is harm reduction?
The highway of tears is located between
Answer: what is between Prince George and Prince Rupert
This concept describes the physical and emotional depletion that erodes a helper’s ability to feel compassion.
Answer: What is compassion fatigue?
This opioid, lethal in tiny amounts, drove a major rise in overdose deaths in Canada.
Answer: What is fentanyl?
This acronym lists warning signs of suicide, including ideation, anxiety, anger, and mood change.
Answer: What is IS PATH WARM?
This behaviour—often misinterpreted as improvement—can indicate that a person has resolved their plan to die.
Answer: What is sudden calmness or mood lift?
Residential school death rates were shockingly high — what were they compared to WWII?
Answer: What is 1 in 2 deaths in residential schools vs. 1 in 26 in WWII?
Name the ABCs for managing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
Answer: What are Awareness, Balance, and Connection?
This harm reduction tool temporarily reverses opioid overdoses.
Answer: What is naloxone?
This phenomenon occurs when an individual provokes police use of lethal force as a means of suicide.
Answer: What is suicide by cop?
Name the FIRST priority in suicide intervention, even before engaging with the individual’s emotions.
Answer: What is ensuring your own safety?
There is ___ total calls to action in the TRC
Answer: what is 94
This is the key difference between burnout and vicarious trauma.
Answer: What is that burnout is caused by workload/stress, while VT involves trauma-based changes in worldview?
This term describes a substance that produces dangerous physical symptoms when use stops because dependence has formed.
Answer: What is withdrawal?
Name one reason men and boys have a suicide completion rate three times higher than women.
Answer: What is use of more lethal means, social norms discouraging help-seeking, or underdiagnosed mental illness?
The number of TRC Calls to Action that have been completed
13-15