It's Only Natural
The body's survival mode
What is fight-flight-freeze?
There are 2.9 million cases reported every year in the United States.
What is child abuse?
This occurs when individuals are more sensitive to signs of danger.
What is hyperarousal?
A form of trauma treatment that involves working with children and adult caregivers to gradually expose both to the identified traumatic experiences to decrease trauma reactions.
What is TF-CBT?
These are attitudes, beliefs, views, opinions, or images.
What are thoughts?
An almond-size piece of gray matter that is involved with experiencing emotions
What is the amygdala?
Compared to children ages 8-11, which for every 1000, 8 children will experience child maltreatment (excluding repeat victims), this age range experiences it 15 per 1000.
What are children ages 0-3?
This is when one is consistently looking for signs of danger.
What is hypervigilance?
This portion of the model involves identifying coping skills for both in the moment and on a daily basis.
What is regulation?
These are the things that you do.
What are behaviors?
If it happens, you will likely feel paralyzed.
What is the freeze response?
32% of children in foster care are in this form of placement.
What is kinship placement?
For some, this may involve falling and/or staying asleep. Others may have trouble waking up.
What are sleep disturbances?
This involves taking thoughts and making them more accurate and more helpful.
What is cognitive reframing?
This involves what is happening, people involved, and the setting.
What is the activating event or situation?
An individual's vulnerability for these increases with more experiences of trauma.
What are mental and physical illnesses?
The highest reported rate of maltreatment for children at 7 per 1000 children (excluding repeat victims)?
What is neglect?
This involves exiting conversations or staying away that remind someone of their experiences.
What is avoidance?
Eventually, a client will create this as part of their exposure to their traumatic experiences and share it with their caregiver.
What is a trauma narrative?
These thoughts are inaccurate and/or not helpful.
What are cognitive distortions?
The system that houses the amygdala and hippocampus.
What is the limbic system (aka the reptilian brian)?
On any given day, there are 443,000 of these children in the United States.
What are children placed in foster care?
Examples of this include that others cannot be trusted at all, that what happened is your fault, and/or that the world is a dangerous place.
What are negative distortions?
This step is sometimes not needed, but involves bringing clients to things they are still experiencing fear over and is interfering with their functioning.
What is exposure?
These thoughts happen in our mind so quickly, we often accept them as truth without thinking.
What are automatic thoughts?