Module 1 Part A
What is a trauma-sensitive classroom?
All students feel safe, welcomed, supported, and staff are responsive to the impact of trauma on learning
To build developmental relationships, adults need to:
(Relationship skills and attunement)
Listen and engage the student
"Tune-in" to what the student is saying and feeling
Be aware of their own feelings
Respond to the student
Be attuned to how the student is experiencing adults.
What are the 2 goals of crisis intervention?
Support: Provide immediate emotional and environmental support to reduce stress and risk and increase the student's sense of safety
Teach: Help students learn and practice ways to regular their emotional and behaviors
What is a setting condition?
Any thing that makes challenging behavior or traumatic stress responses more or less likely to occur
What are some elements of self-care?
Monitor personal level of stress
Maintain healthy lifestyle
Use reflective supervision (active listening and thoughtful questioning by both parties)
What are the 5 phases of the stress model of crisis?
Baseline
Triggering event
Escalation
Outburst
Recovery
What are the 4 foundations for intentional use of self?
Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Relationship skills and attunement
Self-care
What are the three basic processing regions of the Triune Brain Model?
The Thinking Brain - higher functioning
The Emotional Brain - Center for emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation
The Survival Brain - Survival functions - breathing, heart rate, circulation, and most bodily functions.
What are the three recovery phase outcomes?
Higher
No Change
Lower
What is self-awareness?
Knowing our own attitudes, values, and beliefs about students and how they influence behaviors
Understanding our own cultural views, fears, and beliefs
Understanding our own previous life experiences can influences current behaviors
Knowing our beliefs about trauma and pain based behavior
What are some pain-based behaviors?
(Behaviors that are the result of emotional and psychological pain)
Inability to regulate emotions, overreaction to situations, impulsive outbursts, trauma re-enactment, defiance, inflexibility, self-injury, withdrawal, and runaway
What are the four questions adults ask themselves in a crisis situation?
What am I feeling now?
How does the student feel, need, expect, or want?
How is the environment affecting the situation?
How do I best respond?
What is self-regulation?
Awareness of our own physical and emotional state
Skills to manage our own emotions and behavior
There are 5 spaces that make up a trauma-sensitive classroom or school, what are the 5 spaces?
Physical
Social
Cultural
Emotional
Ideological
How do I best respond during a crisis situation?
Manage the environment to neutralize potential triggers
Engage the student and provide emotional support
Exercise self-control over own feelings