ARC Theory
This type of trauma occurs within the caregiving relationship
Complex developmental trauma
Any person working in behavioral health who has a strong reaction to a student or client is experiencing?
a. Transference
b. Countertransference
c. Emotionality
d. Empathy
b. Countertransference
This attunement skill features accepting and respecting another person’s feelings, ultimately letting the other person know we support them.
a. Mirroring
b. Empathy
c. Expression
d. Reflection
Mirroring
The main idea of this block is that we work with youth to build an awareness of internal experiences and help them learn to discriminate and name emotional states, as well as develop understanding of where these states come from.
Identification
The main idea of this block is that we help children build skills and tolerance for effectively engaging and sustaining connection with others.
Relational Connection
ARC treatment targets repairing or creating healthy _________________, which is the bond between the caregiver and child.
Attachment
This interactional exchange explores the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral back and forth that occurs between students, staff, and the student’s caregiver. If you get stuck in it, you’ve found yourself in a power struggle.
Trauma Cycle
This attunement skill reduces another person’s feelings of being “crazy” by letting them know other people might feel the same way they do if they had the same experience.
a. Validating
b. Normalizing
c. Accepting
d. Understanding
b. Normalizing
The main idea of this block is that we work with children to develop safe and effective strategies to manage and regulate physiological and emotional experiences so that they can maintain a comfortable and effective state of arousal
Modulation
This emotion impairs emotional connection as it reflects that children have been taught their emotions are bad, wrong, or unimportant, or that if they share their feelings, something bad will happen. Children, and even most adults, are not aware of when they struggle with this emotion.
Shame
The bottom series of blocks in the ARC house is called this
Foundations
A student might have successfully found your ________________ if during an interaction, you find your heart rate increasing, muscles tensing, negative thoughts and emotions, and you find you have to manage your own behavioral response.
Push Button
This behavioral response tool has undergone significant research and found to be one of the most effective strategies for reshaping behavior
a. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
b. Reinforcement
c. Praise
d. Punishment
Praise
This “one-liner” is repeated throughout the ARC training to help you remember to do these skills not only for the child in your care, but yourself too
"Observe, Modulate, Do"
The main idea of this block is that we work with children to act, instead of react, by using higher-order cognitive processes to solve problems and make active choices in service of reaching identified goals.
Executive Functions
This block in the ARC house addresses the idea of structuring the school day to ease challenging times and creating opportunities and “organic flows” to support connections
Routines and Rhythms
This strategy is something you do in the situation (i.e., deep breathing, muscle relaxation, self-mantra).
“In the Pocket” Strategy
This attunement skill can make other’s feel uncomfortable due to the sincere practice of empathic observation and witnessing of someone else’s experience, but is ultimately a powerful tool in making someone else feel seen and safe
a. Paraphrasing
b. Questioning
c. Active Listening
d. Reflection
Reflection
These are often more difficult to label than their emotional counterpart as American culture tends to be cognitively-focused in it’s use of language.
Body Sensations (points still given if examples are shared)
The main idea of this block is to support children in exploring and building an understanding of self and personal identity, including identification of unique and positive qualities, building of coherence across time and experience, and support in the capacity to imagine and work toward a range of future possibilities.
Self-Development and Identity
ARC utilizes this theory in helping children understand their historical trauma and how it impacts their emotional, cognitive and behavioral well-being
Trauma Experience Integration (TEI)
This is something you do after the stressful situation has occurred (i.e., reaching out to a friend, an activity you enjoy, taking down time).
“Recovery” Strategy
Children with complex developmental trauma have had profoundly unpredictable experience that overwhelm and terrify them, creating this primary need
Control
Research shows that we often stay upset due to a chemical process that happens in the body and our thoughts about the situation re-stimulate the circuitry. However, if you take a deep breath and calm for your mind, it will stop. How long do you need for that to happen?
a. 30 seconds
b. 90 seconds
c. 60 seconds
d. 120 seconds
90 seconds
This component seeks to build a child’s ability to identify personal attributes, such as likes, dislikes, values, talents, opinions, culture, etc.
a. Personality
b. Interests
c. Self-Reflection
d. Individual Self
Individual Self