Attachment
A trauma informed person asks _________________? instead of "What's wrong with you?"
What is, "What happened to you?"
That which "fires" together, _________ together.
What is "Wires"
An event that negatively impacts a person’s functioning, until they are able to get help and recover from the event. This event has a specific time and place.
What is Big T Trauma?
A client not showing up for appointments or following through with treatment plans, when feeling triggered by service interaction.
What is the flight response to trauma?
A person with this type of attachment style is comfortable with conflict.
What is a secure attachment style?
The way in which our brain receives stimuli.
Through our 5 senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting).
Occurs when someone lives in highly stressful situations for extended periods of time. No time for recovery because the trauma is always there.
What is small t trauma?
When we are feeling hyper aroused or hypo aroused we are operating outside of this.
What is our Window of Tolerance
Someone with this attachment style likely had parents who were physically present but emotionally unavailable.
What is avoidant attachment style?
This is the part of the brain, where we are able to engage in critical thinking, problem solve, and engage in empathy for others
What is the upstairs brain, or the prefrontal cortex?
Occurs systematically over time and involves a combination of Big T and small t traumas.
What is Complex Trauma?
A client that becomes verbally aggressive with us is exhibiting which trauma response?
What is the fight response?
This attachment style is the result of childhood trauma and accounts for about 2% of the population.
What is the disorganize/fearful attachment style?
The doctor responsible for the creation of "The Hand Model of the Brain."
Who is Dr. Dan Siegel?
A research study that evaluates the impact of life stressors on overall medical and mental well-being.
What is ACEs, or the Adverse Childhood Experiences study?
Something we could encourage a client to do when we recognize they are responding from the lens of their trauma.
What is (any one of these answers, or more will do) deep breathing, self-affirmations, positive self-talk, talking to a friend, journaling, walking around the room and naming objects seen in the here and now, etc.
A person with this attachment style clings tightly and drives people away with their suspicion of not being lovable.
What is the anxious attachment type?
The ability to re-wire the neural connections in our brains.
What is Neuroplasticity?
The month of gestation your grandmother was in, when the egg that formed you was developed.
What is 5 months gestation?
'Easily exploited by others' and 'people pleasing' fall into this type of response.
What is fawn?