Key Terms
A term used by the VA to refer to experiences of sexual assault or sexual harassment experienced during military service.
What is Military Sexual Trauma (MST)?
This is a brief, narrow in scope and does not diagnose. These can be done by non-clinical staff.
What is screener or screening?
This is the least intensive level of care.
A mental health condition that develops following a traumatic event characterized by intrusive thoughts about the incident, recurrent distress/anxiety, flashbacks, and avoidance of similar situations.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This is a screener for adverse childhood experiences.
What is ACEs?
The primary goal of this level of care is to keep the patient out of the hospital. Providers can come to home of client.
What is Assertive Community Treatment or ACT?
The behavior within an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological hard.
What is Intimate Partner Violence?
This screener is a self -reported inventory to measure the severity of depression.
What is BDI-II or Beck Depression Inventory-II?
Individuals live at the same location they receive treatment.
What is residential?
A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?
An evidence-based tool utilized to determine a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan.
What is an assessment?
This level of care is 5 days a week, min 3 hrs per day and focuses on group work and community building.
Partial Hospitalization?
How the past experiences of a culture affect the lives of the individuals within that culture. This type of trauma that affects an entire culture.
What is Historical Trauma?
This is an assessment administered by clinician to assess for PTSD.
What is CAPS-5 ?