Trauma
An experience, not an event; anything that one experiences that overwhelms one's ability to cope, integrate your experience and continue to function in your daily life roles, routines, and occupations.
What is trauma?
Comprised of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems; plays a primary role when stress response is triggered.
What is Autonomic Nervous System?
List 1 example of how trauma impacts cognition?
- difficulty with planning/problem solving
- difficulty paying attention and focusing on task
- difficulty screening out distractions and triggers from the environment
- difficulty with feeling bodily grounded
refers to the inherent ability of each person to recover and thrive in the face of adversity
What is resiliency?
promotes the widespread application of trauma-informed approaches (TIAs) and provides guidelines to help communities implement TIAs.
What is Self-Healing Communities Model (SHCM)?
A single event that is relatively brief or time-limited
What is acute-trauma?
triggering the mobilization of the brain and bodily systems to support the fight-or-flight response during times of threat or danger
What is Sympathetic Nervous System?
List 2 examples of how trauma impacts emotional wellbeing?
- anxiety
- depression
- fear
- paranoia
- panic
Name the 8 Dimensions of Wellness
What is emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, & spiritual.
one that infuses trauma informed knowledge, skills, and the resources necessary to implement and sustain trauma informed principles and practices.
What is Trauma-Informed Culture?
Typically involves multiple events that occur over a relatively long period of time.
triggers the rest-and-digest mode when in calm mode and not triggered by stress and supports the social engagement capacities to attune and interact socially.
What is Parasympathetic Nervous System
List 1 example of how trauma impacts neurophysiology.
- difficulty with body awareness
- hypersensitivity to sensation (i.e. touch, smell, sounds)
- difficulty with self-regulation, inhibitory control, balance, spatial awareness
a state of mind that can be experienced at different degrees of severity and may be accompanied by the loss of awareness of perceptual cues from the physical and/or social environment, loss of spatial awareness, time, balance, the ability to process auditory input, decreased facial expression, and decreased body and pain awareness.
What is dissociation?
created to help child and adolescent residential and community-based mental health programs not only meet but exceed the expectations and outcomes of LTC.
What is Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)?
Occurs when there are multiple cumulative traumatic experiences starting early in life, with much to the trauma inflicted by one’s primary caregiver.
What is complex trauma?
Area of the brain that plays a role in emotional regulation, specifically fear at a pre-conscious level of awareness
What is Amygdala?
List 2 examples of the impact of trauma on occupational performance.
- difficulty falling/staying asleep
- difficulty with completion of work and school tasks,
- difficulty completing self-care, home care, and social and leisure engagement
Leadership toward organization change, Use of data to inform practice, Workforce development, Use of seclusion and restraint prevention tools, Consumer roles & Debriefing are known as the ________
What is Six Core Strategies
List the Trauma-Informed Principles
According to van der Kolk, _________ is the complex disruptions of affect regulation, the disturbed attachment patterns, the rapid behavioral regressions and shifts in emotional states, the loss of autonomous strivings, the aggressive behavior against self and others, the failure to achieve developmental competencies...
What is developmental trauma?
the PNS goes into ______ when SNS response is not sufficient in diffusing the threat; this is supported by the Vagus nerve in an attempt to self-protect.
What is freeze mode?
List 3 examples of the impact of trauma on relational.
- difficulty with forming close, trusting, and intimate relationships
- difficulty with being paranoid
- feeling insecured
a study which provided ground-breaking research that has brought a significant shift in the understanding of what happens to individuals neuropsychologically, behaviorally, and medically when the person has unaddressed trauma.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
What is the difference between preparatory-based approaches and occupation-based approaches?
Preparatory-based approaches – typically used when a client is having a difficulty with safety and stabilization; used to support the person to and successfully engage in meaningful roles, routines, and activities safely.
Occupation-based approaches – infused as the person feels more able to branch out, explore, and safely participate; also used to help a person feel more stabilized, provided that the interventions are safe and modified at the appropriate challenge level.