PTSD
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
A mental health disorder that has three clusters of symptoms that include: Re-Experiencing, Numbing and Avoidance, and Hyper-arousal.
What is Climbing Trauma Mountain
Learning about trauma, coping with stress, knowing your feelings are all steps on this handout.
Who does Sexual abuse happen to?
Anyone
Fact or myth: 25% to 35% of children/teens make false allegations of abuse.
Myth: 4%-8%
What is the best thing to do if you are not sure if something is sexual abuse?
ask an adult you trust
What is Re-Experiencing symptoms?
Nightmares, Intrusive Day Dreams, and Flashbacks are all symptoms of what PTSD category?
What is the Trauma Narrative?
The child/youth becomes able to remember and talk about what happened without being really upset or avoiding the memories and how to handle trauma reminders during this part of TF-CBT.
True or false: 90% of perpetrators are people victims do not know.
False. 90% of perpetrators are people victims know and trust.
Fact or myth: The most important factor in how child victims manage their experiences is the quality of the treatment they receive.
Myth: The most important factor in how child victims manage their experiences is the presence of a believing, supportive, and protective adult caregiver.
___% of child sexual abuse victims never tell anyone.
60%
What is Numbing and Avoidance?
Avoiding people, places, and things that remind us of the trauma, withdrawing from people and activities, lack of engagement in previously pleasurable activities are all symptoms of this PTSD category.
What is Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or TF-CBT?
A therapy that helps children, youth and their families who have been affected by traumatic events.
What is Sexual Abuse?
Any interaction between a child and an adult (or other child) in which the child is used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or an observer. Sexual abuse can include both touching and non-touching behaviors.
Fact or myth: Most children do not tell anyone about the abuse.
Fact: They are often silenced through threats or fear of not being believed. Some children don’t have the words to speak about what is happening to them.
Over ___% of children and teens who receive TF-CBT experience significant improvement after 12-16 weeks.
80%
What is Hyper-Arousal?
Difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, irritable moods, feeling jumping and scared all the time are symptoms of this PTSD category.
What is Relaxation Skills or Stress Management Skills
These skills are an important part of early TF-CBT work because they can help us to handle the difficult memories of our trauma and the feelings that can come up during this time.
Name 3 things that might suggest that a child has been or is being sexually abused?
What is Nightmares, withdrawal, anger, anxiety, depression, not wanting to be left alone with certain people, inappropriate sexual knowledge, etc.
Fact or myth: 60% of children who experience trauma have no post traumatic symptoms.
Myth: 20% of children do not experience post traumatic symptoms. The impact of the trauma on the child depends on many factors including the severity, frequency, and duration of abuse, as well as a child's biological disposition for resiliency.
What does it mean when our brain is in constant survival mode (Fight, Flight or Freeze)?
This means a person is consistently functioning from their brain stem. This severely affects a person's ability to process information and regulate emotions.
1 in ___ children experience sexual abuse by age 18.
1 in 10
What is the approximate length of TF-CBT? Though all case are different and treatment can last longer or shorter.
12-18 sessions
How come kids may feel like the sexual abuse was their fault?
They may feel like it is their fault because they let the abuser touch their private body parts or because they touched the abusers private body parts. It is important to understand that the abuser made them feel confused or scared. Sexual abuse is always the abusers fault, no matter what!
Fact or myth: Effects of childhood trauma include anxiety, depression, health problems (emotional and physical), disconnection, isolation, confusion, being `spaced out’, and fear of new experiences.
Fact: There is no one size fits all but a reduced quality of life is a constant.
Is Sexual abuse ever the victims fault?
Never.