Trauma Response Overview
Trauma that negatively impacts children mentally and physically, which leads to a variety of long-term impacts.
What is ACES?
Viewing behaviors through a trauma, loss, and oppression-informed lens
What is consciously choose to reframe?
Being honest, empathic, clear, and fully present with the client.
What is credibility of care?
A validation statement that names the trauma or pain, acknowledges experience, and confirms to the client the experience was real
What is bear witness?
Empowering the client to speak for themselves and determine certain choices in treatment
What is relinquishing control?
The foundation of trauma-informed practice
What is empathy?
What is evoking hope?
Type of support, from people with shared experience, can be deeply validating.
What is peer support?
Brief, Pain, Period, Pause
What is b triple p?
Happens when we push our own agenda instead of the client's.
What is power imbalance or rupture in trust?
The "biological wiring" that grants humans the ability for their feelings to move toward the feelings of others.
What are mirror neurons?
Giving advice too soon can damage this.
What is therapeutic trust?
Instead of labeling behavior as "self sabotage," MI encourages us to see it as this.
What is a protective strategy/ learned survival behavior?
Occurs when we jump into solutions too early.
What is client disengagement or resistance?
sharing stories of success (when appropriate) supports this principle.
What is promoting hope?
Respect, Empathy, Authenticity, Collaboration, Hope.
What is REACH?
The technique can be used to reframe a client's behavior compassionately
What is reflective listening?
Instead of prescribing a solution, a practitioner offers options and asks, "What feels right for you?"
What is an example of relinquishing control?
What is reframing?
Asking a client "Who in your life helps you feel safe?" supports what principle?
What is encouraging connection?
being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart.
What is reciprocity?
This is the potential impact of being fully seen and heard in a nonjudgmental space.
What is healing or emotional validation?
When a practitioner says, "You've done this before, and you're not alone now," two principles are being used.
What are promoting hope and encouraging connection?
Instead of asking “Why do you do that?”, we might ask this to explore purpose. (rephrase the question without adding blame, focus on curiosity)
What is “What does this behavior do for you in the moment?”
This principle involves the belief that change is possible even if there may be setbacks.
What is promoting hope?