This category of symptoms includes fear, depression, anger, and affective dysregulation
What is Affective Trauma Symptoms
100
In order to escape overwhelming negative feelings, children may try to avoid thoughts, people, places, or situations that remind them of their traumatic experiences
What is Avoidance
100
This can develop in children due to the sudden, unexpected, terrifying nature of the trauma which can lead a child to feel generally unsafe and hypervigilant, on guard to protect themselves from being “taken by surprise the next time”.
What is General Anxiety
100
Paper and pencil measures that assess internalizing and externalizing symptomatology in children and adolescents
What is Child Behavior Checklist/Behavior Assessment System for Children
100
This cluster of symptoms includes intrusive, upsetting thoughts, or dreams about the traumatic event, physical or psychological distress upon exposure to reminders of the trauma; in young children, reenacting the traumatic event through play
What is Reexperincing
200
In an attempt to avoid painful feelings, children may develop this category of symptoms which are meant to protect them from pain, but can lead to more difficulties
What is Behavioral Trauma Symptoms
200
Children may develop this when the child’s awareness that the traumatic event was unfair.
What is Anger
200
This behavior of burning, cutting, or other forms of self-mutilation and suicidal behaviors can be associated with childhood trauma
What is Self-Injury
200
This refers to a condition in which both unresolved grief and PTSD symptoms are present, often accompanied by depressive symptoms
What is Childhood Traumatic Grief
200
Avoiding people, places, or situations that remind the child of the traumatic event; emotional detachment or flatness; sense of a foreshortened future
What is Avoidance and emotional numbing
300
This refers to behavioral, cognitive, physical, and/or emotional difficulties related to the traumatic experience
What is Trauma Symptoms
300
This is both an instinctive and learned reaction to frightening situations
What is Fear
300
This can impinge on children’s ability to engage in developmentally appropriate tasks and contribute to their taking on responsibility well beyond a maturity level typical for their age
What is a sense of impending doom or “sword of Damocles”
300
A model to gather information during the initial evaluation session (acronym)
What is CRAFTS
300
Increased startle reaction, hypervigilance, disturbed sleep, irritability, or angry outbursts
What is Hyperarousal and mood
400
This category of symptoms can be caused by repeated or ongoing traumatic life events which can develop multiple pervasive difficulties in important domains
What is Complex PTSD
400
Children and Adolescents may use this to avoid trauma reminders, a way of coping with negative self-image, or may arise as a result of associating with other troubled children
What is Substance Abuse
400
Children may develop this if domestic violence is involved, where they realize that their safety depends on aligning themselves with the abuser
What is Traumatic Bonding
400
This model was developed for children who have been traumatized and has the acronym TF-CBT
What is a Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
400
Grief accompanied by symptoms of separation distress and trauma
What is Complicated Grief
500
This category of symptoms can distort children’s thoughts about themselves, the perpetrator(s) of trauma, other people, the social contract, and the world
What is Cognitive Trauma Symptoms
500
This can develop in children after a trauma which may arise in response to an abrupt loss of trust in other people and the world
What is Depressive Feelings
500
Sudden changes in affective state and/or difficulty coping with negative affective states
What is affective dysregulation
500
Sudden or unexpected events, the shocking nature of such events, death or threat of life or bodily integrity, and the subjective feeling of intense terror, horror, or helplessness
What is Features of traumatic events
500
The normal process of grieving for the loss of an important relationship