Types of Trauma
Multiple, prolonged traumatic events
What is Complex?
A type of event that can impact a child's attachment to their caregiver(s) due to early separation
What is adoption?
Violence that involves people who reside in a home together/ violence between people in a dating relationship
What is domestic violence/ intimate partner violence?
Responsible for basic life functions: Breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, etc
What is the brain stem?
The different reactions a person might experience during a traumatic event
What is fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (submit)?
A single traumatic event
What is Acute?
When an adult inappropriately engages in sexual contact with a child or adolescent
What is sexual abuse?
Violence that involves people living in your area
What is community violence?
The part of the brain that is responsible for "alerting" you when perceived danger is near
What is the amygdala?
When is it a child's fault for having experienced or witnessed trauma?
When is NEVER!
Prolonged traumatic events
What is Chronic?
Failure of a caretaker to provide a child's immediate needs such as food, clothing, water, shelter, medical care, etc
What is neglect?
When a peer uses intentional force or coercion to harm another: Physically, emotionally, psychologically.
Ex: Intimidating, picking fights, calling names, etc
What is bullying?
The stress hormones that flood the body
What are cortisol and adrenaline?
When a person is on high alert at all times in fear of a dangerous or unsafe situation
What is hypervigilance?
True or false?
Complex trauma does not impact a person's ability to regulate emotions.
False!
Complex trauma significantly impacts an individual's ability to regulate their emotions which can look like extreme anger/rage and sadness/depression
What are disasters?
Sickness of the body or mind. Can be short-term, long-term, life threatening, or terminal
What is illness?
Part of the brain that does not fully develop until mid-late 20's and is responsible for logic, reasoning, and decision-making
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What you should do if you or someone you know is experiencing abuse or neglect
What is TELL A TRUSTED ADULT?
True or false?
A person's reaction/ response to a type of traumatic event is always considered post-traumatic stress disorder
False!
Though a person may have a significant response to the traumatic event, it is only considered PTSD if symptoms persist for an extended period of time without resolution and it impacts a person's daily functioning.
Physical harm to a person's body as a result of an accident or attack
What is injury?
When a person is no longer living
What is death?
When the brain is no longer regulated, decision-making is inhibited, and we lose the ability to think clearly and control emotions.
What is "flipping your lid" ?
You are not ______.
Statistics show that nearly 1 in 7 children have experienced a traumatic event in the last year, and that number is likely higher due to underreporting.
What is ALONE?