week 16

Question 1

3 Es of trauma

Answer 1

• event
• experience of the event
• effects on the individual psych and physical wellbeing

Question 2

neurotransmitters that regulate emotions

Answer 2

dopamine and seratonin

Question 3

within seconds of the stress, what is released by the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 3

epinephrine and norepinephrine which stimulates cortisol.

Question 4

prefrontal cortex hosts what behaviors

Answer 4

impaired attention, problems with emotional control, and executive functioning

Question 5

amygdala functioning

Answer 5

increades risk of heigtened sensitivity to fear

Question 6

hippocampus functioning

Answer 6

impaired memory functioning

Question 7

chronic exposure to stress

Answer 7

increased blood sugar
weight gain
suppressed immune system
digestive problems
heart disease

Question 8

10 ACES’s

Answer 8

Ph. Abuse
Sex Abuse
Emotional Abuse
Ph. Neglect
Emotional Neglect
Mental illness
Incarcerated relatives
substance abuse
mother treated violently
Divorce

Question 9

6 key princples to trauma informed care

Answer 9

1) safety
2 choice
3 collaberation and mutiality
4 trustworthiness and transparency
5 empowerment, voice, choice
6 cultural, historical and gender issues

Question 10

examples of re-traumatization

Answer 10

• system (sorry this is how it is always how it is done
• having to retell the story
• procedures that require disrobing

Question 11

what is vicarious trauma?

Answer 11

emotional effects on PROVIDERS that results from working with people who have suffered any type of trauma, hearing their stories and witnessing their pain

ie: compassion fatigue, COVID nurse, guilt or shame related to patient outcome, becoming numb to trauma etc.