Brain & Relationships
All About Trauma
Trauma & the Brain
Trauma-Informed Approaches
Comfort vs. Control
100
Donald Hebb said, "Neurons that wire together______"
What is "fire together"?
100
A mental state in which the person feels disconnected from their own self, emotionally and physically.
What is dissociation?
100
Alert center. DANGER!
What is the amygdala?
100
As a person approaches the crisis phase, this should be increased.
What is distance or space?
100
What are comfort statements?
200
Part of the brain most physically affected by trauma.
What is forebrain?
200
These are when a person hears another voice (not their own) that is telling them negative or destructive things about themselves or others.
What are Pejorative Auditory Hallucinations?
200
This sense travels directly to the amygdala & hippocampus.
What is smell?
200
It's critical to be aware what's going on with ___, the person, and the environment.
What is you/yourself?
200
The mother of all control statements!
What is "Calm Down"?
300
These memories are sensory based.
What are implicit memories?
300
Most susceptible to experience abuse.
What is children?
300
Area of the brain responsible for processing and producing speech.
What is the Broca's area?
300
This is not a time to teach!
What is during a crisis?
300
Sometimes we need an alternative to this 2 letter word.
What is "no"?
400
They send and receive information in the brain.
What are neurons?
400
Decides the definition of trauma.
What is the person?
400
Area of the brain that acts as the first entry point for most of our senses.
What is the thalamus?
400
4 Rs: Realize, Recognize, Responding, __________
What is Resist Re-traumatization?
400
Reassure rather than ________.
What is reprimand?
500
________ does not equal understanding.
What is knowledge?
500
An approach for presuming and reacting in a manner that the person you are interacting with has a history of trauma.
What are universal precautions?
500
Job #1 and Job #2
What is to calm the amygdala and build new neural pathways?
500
Think survival habit instead of ___.
What is bad/manipulative behavior?
500
Requires impulse control, high emotional regulation, and the ability to tolerate a perceived injustice.
What is "not talking back"?