HRC Trauma-Informed Care 2

Question 1

Which of the following best illustrates the TIC principle of 'collaboration and mutuality' in a harm reduction drop-in center?

Accepted Answer

Staff and clients share power in decision-making and service design, recognizing that healing happens in relationships

Answer

Collaboration and mutuality means leveling power differences and involving clients in co-creating the services they receive, recognizing that relationships themselves are healing.

Question 2

When implementing trauma-informed care, why is it important for harm reduction organizations to address staff wellness and organizational culture?

Accepted Answer

Because staff who experience secondary trauma may unintentionally re-traumatize clients if organizational supports are absent

Answer

Without organizational supports, staff secondary trauma can impair judgment and empathy, causing them to replicate coercive or dismissive dynamics that harm clients.

Question 3

A client using your syringe service program discloses that she experienced intimate partner violence. A trauma-informed response from the harm reduction worker would be to:

Accepted Answer

Acknowledge her disclosure, express support, ask what she needs right now, and offer relevant resources without pressuring her

Answer

A trauma-informed response honors the client's autonomy, validates her experience, and offers options without coercion or unilateral action that removes her control.

Question 4

Cultural humility in trauma-informed harm reduction requires practitioners to:

Accepted Answer

Engage in ongoing self-reflection about their own biases and recognize clients as experts on their own cultural experiences

Answer

Cultural humility is an ongoing, self-reflective process that acknowledges the limits of one's cultural knowledge and positions clients as authorities on their own lived experience.

Question 5

Which trauma screening tool is widely used in harm reduction and primary care settings because of its brevity and validated psychometric properties?

Accepted Answer

The Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5)

Answer

The PC-PTSD-5 is a brief, validated 5-item screen designed for use in primary care and harm reduction settings to identify individuals who may benefit from further trauma assessment.

HRC - Harm Reduction Professional Certification Practice Test

HRC - Harm Reduction Professional Certification Practice Test

HRC Trauma-Informed Care 2