Acronyms
COWS stands for this
What is crisis of the week OR challenge of the week
These skills are useful for when a child is dissociating
What are grounding skills
_________is criterion A in the DSM5 for PTSD:
What is: The person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence
While doing this component, it is extremely important to come up with a format and organize chapters before starting
What is the narrative
TF-CBT has been found to be _____% effective in decreasing symptoms related to PTSD
What is 80%
NCTSN stands for this
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
You would use these skills if a child is being hyperactive, impulsive, or distracted due to thinking about the trauma within session
Mindfulness skills (or grounding)
The 4 main symptoms of PTSD are:
B) Intrusion symptoms - intrusive memories, traumatic nightmares, dissociative reactions, distress and/or physiological reactivity from reminders C)Avoidance - of external reminders or of thoughts and feelings about the trauma D)Negative alterations in cognitions and mood - feeling alienated from others, memory problems, anhedonia, constricted affect, negative beliefs E) Alterations in arousal and reactivity: irritability, aggressive bx, reckless bx, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response, problems with concentration, sleep problems
When working on the trauma narrative, elicit these three things, in addition to details
What is thoughts, feelings, and physiological feelings
TF-CBT usually takes this amount of sessions
What is 12-16 sessions
PRACTICE stands for this
Psycho-ed and parenting, Relaxation, Affective Expression, Cognitive Coping, Trauma Narrative and Reprocessing, InVivo, Conjoints, Enhancing Future Safety
This is a technique to learn more about the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It can also be helpful in introducing helpful vs. unhelpful thinking.
Cognitive Coping
This symptom of PTSD is often confused for hyperactivity/ADHD
What is hyperarousal (or hypervigilance)
This analogy might be useful when introducing the narrative
What is the skinned knee/wound analogy
__________ is used in each session with the goal that the child will eventually be able to tolerate trauma memories without significant emotional distress and no longer need to avoid them.
What is gradual exposure
CTG stands for this
What is child traumatic grief
These items would be useful in a coping bag
What are items for every sense (touch, smell, sight, taste)...
The duration of the symptoms (criteria b,c,d,e) needs to be more than ____ month for diagnosis
What is one month
This technique could be a good way to assess early on in treatment how good of a reporter the child is
What is a neutral/baseline narrative
This is the only component of the model that is optional
What is In Vivo Exposure
CSEC stands for this
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children -
a range of crimes and activities involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a child for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of value (including monetary and non-monetary benefits) given or received by any person.
This coping skill involves having the child focus on learning how to take correct breathes in order to calm their body.
What is diaphragmatic breathing (or deep breathing)
The UCLA PTSD RI is for children age ______ and above
What is seven and above
True or False: The goal of the narrative is the content
False. The goal of the narrative is the process. (Which is why it is more preferred to call it the narration, not the narrative)
This is a good analogy to explain the idea of gradual exposure
What is the pool analogy