Trauma Informed Practice
A traumatic event that occurs to or is witnessed by one person.
What is Individual Trauma?
Name one type of Staff Trauma
What is Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious/Secondary Trauma, Personal Vulnerability, Grief and loss at work, Staff being victimized at work, Systems Trauma or Burnout?
A relationship building technique that involves providing affirmations that are short, specific and sincere.
What is Praise?
In this de-escalation technique, you choose to address the individual's mood - not their behavior.
What is Selective Focus?
True or False: As long as I do the move correctly, I don't have to worry about the amount of force that is used.
False.
A traumatic event that occurs between people who know each other and share a relationship, such as spouses, parents and children, other family members, etc.
What is Interpersonal Trauma?
What is the positive psychological change that some individuals experience after a life crisis or traumatic event?
What is Post Traumatic Growth (PTG)?
A relationship building technique that includes reflecting back what the other person has said (both the words and the accompanying feeling.
What is Active Listening?
The de-escalation technique which allows the individual to voluntarily be by themself, with comfort/sensory items identified in their individual calming plan, to self-regulate.
What is Calming Time?
From which side should you approach when coming to assist a fellow staff member?
Intentional, targeted oppression of specific populations. This trauma is likely to be passed down and experienced intergenerationally.
What is Historical Trauma?
Any time an individual can learn from you.
What is a Teachable Moment?
A relationship building technique that includes announcing to another staff, in front of the person in care, where you will be going, how much time you will be spending alone with the individual, and that you have important things to discuss and not to be disturbed unless there is an emergency.
What is Undivided Attention?
The three parts of this de-escalation technique involve telling an individual, "You have done it before, you can do it again, and I am here to help."
What is Reassurance?
The concept of protecting the neck and spine and keeping one's hair and scalp safer in a hair pull situation.
What is Stabilization?
Negative, disparaging, or hurtful messages (words, tone, looks, actions, etc.) conveyed to individuals because of their status in a historically marginalized group.
What are Microagressions?
Creating an alliance that helps individuals learn, grow, and look forward to the future.
What is a Therapeutic Relationship?
It is something that we can always Validate.
What are feelings and experiences?
The de-escalation technique that consists of making brief comments and or asking questions in order to direct the conversation to a less upsetting topic.
What is Distraction?
In a choking situation, the Initial Protection for a staff is...
What is "Turtling"?
Name one of the "Three E's" to consider when thinking about an individual's trauma.
What are Event, Experience, Effect?
An integral part of staff's day-to-day interactions is M.I.S.
What is Moving, Interacting, and Scanning?
The concept that two opposing ideas are not necessarily in conflict
What is the Dialectical Approach?
This de-escalation technique involves responding to the person's expression of anger or verbal threats by voicing your perception of what the person is really feeling.
What is Clarifying the Emotional Status?
Rather than pull away from a bite we should...
What is push the area being bitten into the individual's mouth with the intent to seal the mouth so the individual will have to open their mouth to take a breath?