Trauma
What is the word for the trauma affecting personal safety?
What is Hypervigilance
What does trouble sleeping, substance use and mental health conditions have in common with trauma?
Name one type of trauma response for children in the classroom.
What is
Freeze
Fight
Flight
What is the word for regulation of impulses and behaviours?
What is self-regulation.
What trauma response is fighting with other students?
Fight
How does the freeze response show up in children?
What is
Refusal to DO anything – follow directions, complete assignments, or play at recess
Holding breath
Putting their head down
What are common behaviors for a child with trauma to display?
What is difficulty managing emotion or Withdrawal from creative play
What trauma response is name calling?
Fight
What is one way the flight response shows up in children?
Fidgeting
Physically moving away
Leaving the classroom without permission
What experiences may lead to trauma?
Car crash
Emotional neglect
Sexual abuse
Name a trauma behaviour in youth.
Lack of forming attachments with others
Substance use
Attention problems
How does the fight response show up in children?
Verbal aggression- swearing, name calling, threatening others
Physical aggression appearing as hitting, kicking, punching, throwing things
Talking back to others
Describe a traumatic response.
Ongoing emotional upset, depressive symptoms or anxiety, behavioral changes.
Name a physical reaction to traumatic stress.
Heart racing
Sweating
What can lessen the impact of trauma?
Family/community support
Prior history of trauma