Vocab
Often called the stress hormone
What is Cortisol?
This resource is provided free to all UTK students.
What is the Counseling Center?
Prevention programs often increase this and cause the school's reputation to lower and an increase in fines. Which in turn causes hesitation about the implementation of prevention programs.
What is 'more reports of sexual assault'?
Individuals with a sexual assault history have a greater risk of what?
What is suicidal ideation or attempt?
The number of women sexually assaulted on university campuses
What is 1 in 5? (or ~20%)
Part of the brain that is associated with controlling emotions, memory, learning, and the autonomic nervous system which also controls fight or flight.
What is the limbic system?
These are ways to protect against a toxic stress reponse.
What is having the support of family, friends and loved ones?
Something that UT does to promote awareness of sexual assault.
What is the red zone pop-ups, t-shirts about consent, ACTive bystander education, education presentations, and more?
Sexual Assault survivors have used this as a coping mechanism.
What is substance abuse?
The percentage of sexual assault cases that go unreported.
What is 80%?
This response can happen when an individual experiences chronic and severe stressors without adequate support.
What is Toxic Stress?
Type of psychotherapy where the goal is to change patterns, thinking and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This idea seems to be believed both by surveys and by literature that would be the best place to begin changing the stats on sexual assaults.
What is changing the social normative beliefs of college-aged men? (particularly in fraternities)
Sexual Assault survivors show an increase in these two symptoms.
What are anger and dissociation?
The percentage of cases that go without punishment or responsibility given to the perpetrator.
What is 89%?
The ability of the brain to change structure in response to experience and the environment.
What is Neural Plasticity?
This therapy has been used to treat Borderline Personality Disorder, Suicidal Ideations, Self Harm and Substance abuse.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
Changing these types of beliefs in both men and women can help more sexual assaults to be reported and eventually fewer assaults to be committed.
Rape Myths
These are two effects of depression.
What is suicidal ideation and self-harming?
The percentage of people who believe their school has either a very common or somewhat common belief in the statement, " If a woman is sexually assaulted while she is drunk, she is at least somewhat responsible for what happened."
What is 53%?
Involves three components of the brain and involved heavily in the stress response
What is HPA (hippocampus, pituitary gland, and amygdala) axis??
Psychotherapy treatment used to assist with the stress brought on by traumatic events.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
Paludi' model for improved prevention of sexual assault includes these steps. (let's just give ideas)
What is...1.Year-long programming 2. Occasional high-intensity programming 3. Targeting captive audiences 4. Collaboration with other university offices, groups, or individuals. 5. Data collection 6. Using evidenced-based programming
Decreased hippocampal function and volume are aspects of what?
What is depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
The percentage of women who believe if a person reports sexual assault than they will be somewhat or very likely to be criticized by their peers.
What is 42%