Secondary Traumatic Stress
This is the impact of encountering trauma on a second-hand basis including hearing about other's trauma, seeing photos of trauma, or reading about trauma.
What is secondary traumatic stress?
This type of self-care involves eating nutritious foods, drinking water, and sleeping enough.
What is physical self-care?
These are the three stages of the Stress Cycle.
What are Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion?
This describes an event that overwhelms a person's ability to cope and impacts the way people view themsleves, others, and the world around them.
What is trauma?
Thinking/Learning, Survival/Feeling, and Reptilian are all parts of what?
What is the brain/Triune brain?
This occurs when secondary traumatic stress is left unaddressed, and indicates a change in world view caused by exposure to traumatic events.
What is vicarious trauma?
This term describes intentionally building coping strategies into everyday life to maintain balance.
What is self-care?
This happens when our body stays in the Exhaustion phase of the Stress Cycle for prolonged periods of time.
What is anxiety, depression, burnout, or a compromised immune system?
This type of trauma involves repeated trauma, whether it is the same type of trauma (physical abuse) or different types of trauma.
What is chronic trauma?
This part of the Triune Brain is engage when a stressor or trauma occurs most often.
What is the feeling/survival brain?
These are potential signs of secondary traumatic stress.
What are physical symptoms (headaches, nausea, hyperarousal, frequent illness, changes in eating/sleeping etc.), emotional symptoms (irritability, cynicism, depression, anxiety), and cognitive symptoms (memory problems, poor concentration, brain fog, inability to make decisions)?
This type of self-care involves becoming intentionally present in the moment and returning yourself to baseline.
What is mindfulness/grounding.
This is the most effective way to end the stress cycle and releases endorphins.
What is movement/exercise?
These are experiences that can impact the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and neurological development of children.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
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This coping skill engages the parasympathetic nervous system, allows our bodies to slow down, and cycles carbon dioxide out of our bodies.
What is deep breathing?
These are professions at risk for developing secondary traumatic stress.
What is any profession that has exposure to individuals who have experienced trauma- whether they read about the trauma, talk with the individuals, see photos, etc. (Social workers, court staff, first responders, doctors, nurses etc)?
This strategy is used by Navy Seals for regulation and involves breathing in for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and releasing for 4 seconds.
What is box breathing?
This is called rest and digest or recovery.
What is when you exit/end the Stress Cycle?
These are four of the traumatic stress responses.
What are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn?
This strategy can de-activate your amygdala and increase endorphins in your body.
What is movement/exercise/walking?
These are strategies that can help prevent and lessen the impact of secondary traumatic stress.
What are self-care strategies?
This type of self-care involves maintaining and creating healthy social bonds.
What is social self-care?
These are the seven ways to end the stress cycle.
What are movement, deep breathing, creativity, laughing, crying, physical affection and social interactions?
This type of trauma is passed down from generation to generation within a family.
What is intergenerational trauma?
This is the difference between traumatic and non-traumatic memories.
Non-traumatic memories are filed away, traumatic memories inhibit the hippocampus and are more free-floating and can result in 'flashbacks'.