TF-CBT
Trauma
Relaxation
Coping Skills
Domestic Violence
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The abbreviation for Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral TherapyF-CBT

What is TF-CBT?

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1) A very scary, upsetting, confusing, and/or life threatening event.
What is trauma or “a traumatic event”?
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Taking deep breaths, often while counting, move your diaphragm and expand your stomach (not the upper chest) that are very relaxing.
1) What are “belly breathing” or just deep breathing?
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Something that distracts you from negative thoughts, feelings, and/or actions/behaviors.
1) What are Coping Skills?
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1) Also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, dating abuse, and intimate partner violence (IPV).
What is domestic violence?
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Offers daily support and praise, helps the child use strategies learned during each TF-CBT session, and so hopefully learns to manage their own trauma symptoms related to the traumatic event.
Who is the parent/guardian or "support person"?
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Domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, natural disasters, school or community violence, scary medical procedures, bad car accidents, war, and/or witnessing any of the above.
What are the most common types of trauma?
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Thinking about a happy, calm place.
2) What are visualization or going to your “happy place”?
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Putting the brakes on negative thoughts and negative (unhelpful) thought patterns.
2) What is “Thought-Stopping”?
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A pattern of behavior which involves the abuse by one person against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage, cohabitation, dating or within the family.
What is domestic violence?
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What is TF-CBT?
A child focused intervention that encourages parent participation as it is designed to manage trauma symptoms for both the child and the parent.
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Feeling worried most of the time, having bad dreams, being on “high alert”a lot(looking out for danger everywhere), being “jumpy”, having trouble sleeping, having trouble concentrating, having “flashbacks”, self-abuse, risky behaviors, feeling “numb” (without feelings), having frequent headaches and/or stomach aches, and feeling angry or irritable a lot.
3) What are common/”normal” symptoms of trauma?
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Tightening and releasing your muscles and/or parts of your body-one at a time. Can be read by a person or there are many to be found on UTube.
4) What is progressive relaxation?
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Exchanging negative thoughts with positive ones.
3) What is “thought replacement”, reframing, or simply positive thinking?
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3) The 3 known periods of time that occur repeatedly with interpersonal violence/anger: 1.tensions rise, then 2.an act of violence is committed, that is then followed by 3.a period of reconciliation.
What is the Cycle of Abuse?
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Talking about the traumatic experience slowly at first as you work your way up to the Trauma Narrative is like jumping into the shallow end of the pool and then slowly learning to swim in the deep end.
What is Gradual Exposure?
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Pictures of the traumatic event (the bad thing that happened) that pop into your mind and seem very real.
What are flashbacks?
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Looking around you, touching something, or maybe noticing 5 things. This is designed to bring you back to “the present” when you daydream/dissociate.
3) What is "grounding”?
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The geometric figure that shows how thoughts affect feelings, which in turn affects actions.
4) What is the Cognitive Triangle?
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4) The number of children that witness DV in their homes each year?
What is 3.3 million?
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A therapeutic intervention, like TF-CBT, that has been tested and found to be very effective.
What is an Evidence Based Treatment?
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What is “Post Traumatic Stress” or “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”(PTSD)?
What is the type of stress or the mental health disorder that can result from exposure to a traumatic event?
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4) The geometric figure that shows how thoughts affect feelings, which in turn affects actions.
What is the Cognitive Triangle?
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5) Knowing and recognizing these in yourself and others will improve relationships and help you to control them in yourself.
What are Feelings or Emotions?
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5) The percentage of abusive men who also abuse their children.
What is 50%?
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