Trauma Knowledge
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
What is trauma.
Meditation, regular exercise, healthy diet, warm bath or shower.
What are ways to practice good sleep hygiene?
Any one who was sexually abused as a child has PTSD.
False. Many people experience trauma without developing PTSD.
A mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being. Mind and body practices focus on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior.
What is meditation?
Model explaining the thoughts/actions/feelings that can be used to understand how to intervene on traumatic responses?
What is the CBT triangle
Hypervigilance, intrusive experiences, flashbacks, avoidance, numbing, anger, self-blame and guilt, sleep disturbance and nightmares
What are signs or symptoms of PTSD?
Mindful breathing; noticing the body relax from bottom to top.
What is full body relaxation or "relaxation?"
PTSD, if diagnosed, never goes away.
False. Trauma does not go away, but mental health symptoms can be managed, reduced and sometimes eliminated through therapy.
Stress reduction, anxiety management, emotional health, self-awareness, improve attention span, reduce memory loss, improve blood pressure, fighting addiction, improvements in sleep, pain management
What are benefits of meditation?
A way to view self-regulation and trauma responses that become hyper or hypo arousal states.
What is the Window of Tolerance.
False
All relaxation techniques are the same.
False. There are a variety of relaxation techniques that can include a combination of visualization and breathing practices.
Grasping for control and seeing how one is personally responsible for their own trauma.
What is self-blaming?
Find a nice, quiet place where you won’t be disturbed for fifteen minutes or longer. Breathe slowly and deeply. Close your eyes softly. Be aware. When you are breathing deeply, you will begin to feel calmer and more relaxed.
What is "How to meditate?"
Hyperarousal states are linked to the ______/______ response.
What is fight/flight?
Trauma that happened in the past, can impact current daily functioning and relationships.
True
Prompts to notice the world around oneself in the present moment.
What are grounding exercises?
Isolation, restricting contact with the outside world and with other people.
The quality or state of being conscious or aware of on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is mindfulness?
Hypoarousal is related to the _________ response.
What is freeze?
Healing from trauma is impossible.
False
Intentional and gradual exposure to traumatic triggers with the guidance of a therapist.
What is exposure therapy and can help reduce feelings of anxiety, distress, or fear that a person may have due to a disorder or previous trauma.
The experience of being unable to feel emotions pleasant or disturbing ones. Feeling "blah" all the time.
What is emotional "numbing."
A process by which one or more participants meditate in response to the guidance provided by a trained practitioner or teacher, either in person or via a written text, sound recording, video, or audiovisual media comprising music or verbal instruction, or a combination of both
What is guided meditation?
An extreme version of fight/flight/freeze in which a person's daily functioning is significantly impaired. These people may be diagnosed with PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder or other diagnoses.
What is complex trauma?