Symptoms of Trauma
_______ of trauma reminders, including memories is a symptom of trauma.
What is AVOIDANCE?
First step before trauma processing.
What is stablization?
This therapy works by identifying and challenging unhealthy thinking patterns that contribute to the symptoms of trauma.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This part of the brain acts as the body's alarm system and detects threat.
What is the amygdala?
This treatment gradually exposes the person to trauma reminders in a safe setting.
What is exposure based therapy
Individuals who experienced trauma tend to have an exaggerated or unexaggerated startle response?
What is exaggerated?
According to Polyvagal Theory, this process describes how the nervous system automatically detects safety or danger.
What is neuroception?
This can be used to manage the symptoms of trauma (ie. anxiety, depression and insomnia).
An overactive, hypervigilant amygdala can occur from _________ stress or trauma?
What is continual?
Daniel Siegel uses this hand model to explain what happens when the thinking brain goes offline during stress.
What is "flipping your lid"?
A vivid experience in which you relive some aspects of a traumatic event or feel as if it is happening right now.
What is a FLASHBACK?
Rather than asking "What's wrong with you?", trauma-informed care asks this question instead.
What happened to you?
This framework links childhood adversity to lifelong health and mental health outcomes.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
What chemical floods the brain during stressful or traumatic events?
What is cortisol?
This theory explains how the autonomic nervous system constantly scans for safety or danger.
What is Polyvagal Theory?
Distressing _________ and other sleep problems can be symptoms of trauma.
This concept describes the zone in which a person can think, learn, and regulate emotions effectively.
What is the Window of Tolerance?
This approach uses curiosity and compassion to explore the unconscious roots of trauma and coping behaviours.
What is Compassionate Inquiry?
These four words describe the common survival responses to threat.
What are the Fight, flight, freeze or fawn?
This therapy focuses on releasing trauma through body awareness and nervous system regulation.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Individuals tend to have these feelings regarding the traumatic event..
What is self-blame, guilt and/or shame?
This is considered the most important therapeutic tool in trauma therapy, even before specific techniques.
What is the therapeutic relationship (or therapist's presence and attunement)?
This therapy uses bilateral stimulation to help process traumatic memories.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
Being exposed to traumatic events on a regular basis can effect our ______?
What is memory?
This approach integrates body awareness with emotional and cognitive processing.
What is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?