Types of Trauma
What is complex trauma?
This type of trauma results from repeated exposure to traumatic events, often beginning in childhood, and leads to long-term emotional and psychological effects.
One of the core principles involves making sure that individuals feel physically and emotionally secure.
What is safety?
What is an emotional environment?
A trauma-sensitive environment should have this type of atmosphere, with support from staff and peers offering empathy and compassion.
This condition is characterized by intrusive thoughts, nightmares, and flashbacks related to a traumatic event.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
This strategy involves ensuring clear communication, establishing predictable routines, and setting boundaries to help create a safe environment for clients.
What is building trust and safety?
This type of trauma involves harm caused to the body, such as physical injury or abuse.
What is physical trauma?
This principle encourages shared decision-making and empowerment, allowing individuals to have control over their care.
What is collaboration and empowerment?
A trauma-sensitive environment should be designed to be private, quiet, and calming, with minimal distractions. This refers to which type of space?
What is the physical space?
This is a common mental health effect that manifests as a deep sense of sadness and hopelessness, often stemming from unresolved trauma.
What is depression?
This strategy involves encouraging clients to be active participants in their treatment plan, focusing on their strengths.
What is empowerment?
A deep, psychological impact caused by extraordinarily stressful events that disrupt a person’s sense of security
What is emotional trauma?
This principle ensures that individuals receive clear communication and that decisions are made transparently, fostering trust.
What is trustworthiness and transparency?
When creating a trauma-sensitive environment, staff must be mindful of these, which are triggers that could cause distress or discomfort for trauma survivors.
What are potential triggers?
Anxiety often arises in response to trauma, resulting in a heightened sense of this.
What is fear or worry?
When engaging with trauma survivors, it's crucial for caregivers to be aware of these, which can re-trigger painful memories.
What are trauma triggers?
This emotional trauma occurs when a person feels abandoned by a parent or caregiver, often leading to deep feelings of insecurity.
What is abandonment trauma?
What are cultural, historical, and gender issues?
This principle recognizes that trauma experiences can differ based on culture, gender, and historical background, and care should reflect these differences.
This aspect of a trauma-sensitive environment involves using supportive, non-judgmental language to avoid re-traumatizing an individual.
What is language?
A mental health issue where the trauma survivor disconnects from the present and feels numb or detached is often referred to as this.
What is dissociation?
This strategy helps support healing by creating an environment where clients feel they have a voice and can contribute to their recovery process.
What is collaboration and empowerment?
A person who experiences emotional trauma from an ongoing lack of emotional support and validation from others may develop this type of emotional injury.
What is emotional invalidation?
What is peer support?
This principle encourages mutual support and shared experiences from others who have faced similar trauma.
This refers to the physical, emotional, and relational environment that staff and clients work within, ensuring that trauma survivors feel supported and respected.
What is a trauma-sensitive environment?
People with a history of trauma might experience mood swings and difficulty controlling their emotions, which is related to this disorder.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Trauma-informed care requires caregivers to prioritize this type of self-care to avoid burnout and to maintain the capacity to support others.
What is personal self-care?