TRAUMA
PTSD is preventable.
False - PTSD is not necessarily preventable because individuals cannot control when trauma happens. However, they can be equipped to cope with the trauma afterward.
Using a substance to the point that it alters a person’s judgment and decision making, leading to dangerous behaviors.
Substance Abuse
The ability to effectively communicate with and build positive relationships with others.
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Gangs are one of the leading factors for growth of violent crimes.
True
Positive coping skills help you deal with stress in healthy and productive ways, while negative coping skills provide temporary relief and momentary distraction but can actually make stress worse over time.
True
A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of a psychological trauma.
Flashback
When someone who is addicted to drugs stops taking them, they go through this, which involves pain, shakes, vomiting, and headaches.
Withdrawal
A process in which two or more individuals use to find a peaceful solution to their disagreement.
Conflict Resolution
Joining a gang will give you more protection and decrease your chance of being targeted as a victim.
False
This technique involves slowly inhaling and exhaling.
Deep Breathing
These are unwanted thoughts that can pop into your head and seem to become stuck in your mind. They're often repetitive – with the same kind of thought coming up again and again – and they can be disturbing or even distressing.
Intrusive Thoughts
Substances that are prescribed by a doctor to treat medical issues, but when they’re taken without symptoms present, they affect the brain in ways similar to illegal drugs.
Prescription Drugs
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Empathy
Taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear, with the intent to permanently deny the person of their property.
Robbery
This involves the tensing of the muscles then releasing for relaxation.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (e.g., stress ball)
This type of trauma results from exposure to multiple traumatic events.
Complex Trauma
Substances that have a high potential for abuse, which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
Controlled substances or illegal drugs
Limits or rules we set for ourselves within relationships.
Boundaries
This is the most common type of violence among gangs.
Gun violence
Listening to music, avoiding stress, and going for a walk are all examples of positive coping skills.
False - Avoiding stress might seem like a great way to become less stressed, but this isn't necessarily the case. More often than not, confronting a problem or dealing with a stressor is the only way to effectively reduce the stress it causes
Resiliency, seeking help, and coping with the traumatic event by avoiding it are all examples of protective factors of PTSD.
False - Coping with the traumatic event in positive and active ways rather than by avoiding it.
Teens abuse this over the counter medications to get high. It causes weakness, numbness, nausea or vomiting, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and brain damage.
Cough/Cold Medicine
Signals expressed through another person's body language, facial/emotional expressions, tone of voice, etc.
Social Cues
Risk factors for gang involvement can be divided into five categories: individual characteristics, peer group, genetics, family, and community.
False (school history- not genes)
A practice of serious thought about one's character, actions, and motives, which allows us to acknowledge what choices were good, which were bad, and how we can improve ourselves.
Self-Reflection