Trauma Theory
Instead of saying, "What's wrong with you," we could say...
"What happened to you?"
Recognizing and handling feelings in non-harmful ways.
What is "Emotion Management?"
This Commitment means, "shared decision making, making sure that everyone has a voice, which is not the same as everyone having a vote."
What is "Democracy?"
This is when an external event overwhelms a personal internal resources and external supports for coping.
What is "Trauma?"
This is a commonly-used tool that allows youth and staff to promote feeling identification, focus on the future, and connect to their community.
What is a "Community Meeting?"
This was the study used to learn about the effects of traumatic childhood experience over a person's whole lifespan.
What is the "ACEs Study?"
The kind of safety of being safe and free to behave in ways consistent with your conscience, beliefs and values.
What is "moral/ethical safety?"
This Commitment means, "managing our feeling so that we don't hurt ourselves or others."
What is "Emotional Intelligence?"
This is the cumulative transformative effect on helpers of working with, living with, and spending time with survivors of traumatic life events.
What is "vicarious trauma?"
This is a tool that is a visual reminder of emotional management practices listed as activities, techniques or skills to be used in situations that may trigger challenging behaviors.
What is a "Safety Plan?"
Trauma theory began as a study of the emotions of adults returning from this military conflict.
What is "The Vietnam War?"
The kind of safety that include good health practices an an absence of substance abuse.
What is "physical safety?"
This Commitment means, "saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it."
What is "Open Communication?"
A cultural situation in which strong feelings get disconnected from their source and become attached to unrelated events or interactions.
What is a "collective disturbance?"
What is "Self Care Planning?"
This kind of behavior has a person telling stories that don't make sense, making poor excuses, and getting caught lying easily.
What is "Trauma-based behavior?"
This element of SELF includes choosing trajectories, choosing new attractors and making different choices.
What is "future?"
This Commitment means, "respecting and sharing the ideas of our teams, learning from one another and sharing our knowledge."
What is "Social Learning?"
The situation where we are personally overwhelmed, and can disconnect from our thoughts and our feelings.
What is "disassociation?"
This is a set of practical and simple interventions/tools that reinforce the language and philosophical underpinnings of the Sanctuary Model.
What is the "Sanctuary Toolkit?"
The part of the brain that is activated when we feel threatened, and is responsible for "triggering behaviors."
What is the amygdala?
This element of SELF includes refraining from reenactment, moving on, and change.
What is "Loss?"
This Commitment means, "creating hope for individuals we serve and for ourselves."
What is "Growth and Change?"
This model contains a "victim," a "persecutor" and a "rescuer."
What is "Karpman's Drama Triangle?"
A kind of team meeting that is in response to a problem, conflict or critical incident that requires a community-wide perspective.
What is a "red flag meeting" or a "problem solving meeting?"