Week 10 - Trauma-Informed Care Flashcards

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an event or series of events, an experience or prolonged experiences, and/or a threat or perceived threats to a person’s well-being.

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trauma

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2
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the individual’s ___ ___ ___ can be negatively impacted by trauma.

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daily coping mechanisms

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3
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signals that act as signs of possible danger, based on historical traumatic experiences and which lead to a set of emotional, physiological and behavioral responses that arise in the service or survival and safety (sights, sounds, smells, touch)

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triggers

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4
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____ are all about one’s perceptions experienced as reality.

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triggers

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5
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a framework of thinking and interventions that are directed by a thorough understanding of the profound neurological, biological, psychological, and social effects trauma has on an individual - recognizing that person’s constant interdependent needs for safety, connections, and ways to manage emotions, impulses.

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trauma-informed care

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6
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name the 3 types of trauma.

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  • acute trauma (type I)
  • complex trauma (type II)
  • crossover trauma (type III)
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7
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  • results from exposure to a single overwhelming event.
  • ex: rape, death of a loved one, natural disaster.
  • characteristics: detailed memories, omens, hyper-vigilance, exaggerated startled response, misperceptions or overreactions
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acute trauma (type I)

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8
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  • results from extended exposure to traumatizing situations.
  • ex: prolonged exposure to violence or bullying, profound neglect, series of home removals.
  • characteristics - denial and psychological numbing, dissociation, rage, social withdrawal, sense of foreshortened future
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complex trauma (type II)

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9
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  • results from a single traumatic event that is devastating enough to have long-lasting effects.
  • ex: mass casualty school shooting, car accident with fatalities involved, refugee dislocation.
  • characteristics: perpetual mourning or depression, chronic pain, concentration problems, sleep disturbances, irritability
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crossover trauma (type III)

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10
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1 out of how many women will experience domestic violence and abuse in her lifetime?

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11
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what is the largest victims’ services agency in the US?

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Safe Horizon

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12
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a form of violence that places or keeps people of color in conditions of hunger and poverty through the structural withholding of resources and opportunities, hyper-surveillance, and unjust incarceration inflicted on racialized individuals and communities.

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systemic racism

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13
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consists of interpersonal and individual interventions with a person’s physical, emotional, economic, or social wellbeing bc of biases against someone’s race, often in by way of access to public space, employment, housing, and healthcare.

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racial discrimination

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14
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an altered state of consciousness characterized by partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person’s normal conscious or psychological functioning. most commonly experienced as a subjective perception or one’s consciousness being detached from one’s emotions, body and/or immediate surroundings.

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dissociation

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15
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name the 5 dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV.

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  1. depersonalization disorder
  2. dissociative amnesia
  3. dissociative fugue
  4. dissociative identity disorder
  5. dissociative disorder not otherwise specified
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16
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periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as “unreal” (lacking in control of or “outside of” self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.

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depersonalization disorder

17
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noticeable impairment of recall resulting from emotional trauma

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dissociative amnesia

18
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physical desertion of familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past. this may lead to confusion about actual identity and the assumption of a new identity.

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dissociative fugue

19
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the alternation of two or more distinct personality states with impaired recall, among personality states, of important information.

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dissociative identity disorder

20
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can be used for forms of pathological dissociation not covered by any of the specified dissociative disorders.

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dissociative disorder not otherwise specified

21
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  • vulnerable to being triggered by sensory stimulation, actions and thoughts related to the traumatic event.
  • traumatic events re-experienced - recurrent and intrusive thoughts of the event, recurrent and distressing dreams, flashbacks, and dissociation
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PTSD

22
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can be transferred in between generations; after a first generation of survivors experiences trauma, their trauma is transmitted to their children and further generations of offspring via complex PTSD mechanisms

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transgenerational/intergenerational trauma

23
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name the 6 core principles of trauma informed care.

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  1. safety
  2. trustworthiness
  3. choice
  4. collaboration
  5. empowerment
  6. respect for diversity
24
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constantly scanning environment

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hypervigilance