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 start and finish one chapter on the day you start it.
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 impulsive 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 12-18 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 symptoms that the child is experiencing, where you learn more about the antecedents to the symptom, what the symptom itself looks like, and the consequence.
Functional Behavioral Analysis
This analogy might be useful when introducing the narrative
What is the 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 narrative
This is the only component of the model that is ONLY completed with the caregivers
What is Parenting
CRAFTS stands for this (problem domains that TFCBT addresses)
Cognitive Problems, Relationship problems, affective problems, family problems, traumatic behavior problems, somatic problems
This coping skill involves having the child being very focused on an activity so they are purposefully distracted and can go down on their SUDS rating.
What is active mindfulness, mindfulness, planned distraction
The UCLA PTSD RI is for children age ______ and above
What is seven and above
The goal of the narrative is the content or the process
What is the process
This is a good analogy to explain the idea of gradual exposure
What is the pool analogy