Evidence-Based Trauma Therapies Flashcards

In TF-CBT, the PRACTICE acronym helps practitioners remember the treatment components. What does the letter 'A' represent?

Answer: Affective regulation

In the PRACTICE acronym, 'A' stands for Affective regulation, the skills taught to help children manage difficult emotions associated with trauma.

Seeking Safety, an evidence-based treatment for trauma and substance use disorders, is best characterized as which type of intervention?

Answer: Present-focused coping skills therapy

Seeking Safety is a present-focused therapy that teaches safe coping skills without requiring trauma exposure or processing of trauma content.

The concept of 'titration' in Somatic Experiencing refers to:

Answer: Introducing small, tolerable amounts of traumatic activation to avoid overwhelm

Titration in SE involves carefully introducing small doses of traumatic material so the nervous system can process it without becoming overwhelmed or retraumatized.

Which trauma therapy is most explicitly grounded in Bowlby's attachment theory and focuses on restructuring the parent-child attachment bond?

Answer: Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)

CPP is explicitly rooted in attachment theory, using the caregiver-child relationship as the central mechanism of therapeutic change.

In Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), the 'lifeline' technique serves what primary purpose?

Answer: Creating a chronological narrative of the client's entire life including traumatic and positive events

The lifeline is a tangible timeline where clients place flowers (positive events) and stones (traumatic events) to construct a chronological life narrative.

A trauma therapist asks a child to give a 'brave rating' to situations on a fear ladder before beginning exposure work. This procedure is adapted from which therapeutic tradition?

Answer: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with systematic desensitization

The fear ladder with subjective distress ratings is a classic CBT tool derived from Wolpe's systematic desensitization, adapted for use with children.

According to the research base for TF-CBT, which caregiver component has been found to be particularly critical to treatment outcomes for children?

Answer: Caregiver's own processing of distress and development of coping skills

Research shows that when caregivers process their own emotional distress and learn parallel coping skills, child outcomes in TF-CBT are significantly improved.