Trauma-Informed Care and PTSD Treatment Flashcards
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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD focuses on changing which type of maladaptive cognition associated with trauma?
Answer: Stuck points — distorted beliefs about the trauma and its meaning related to safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy
CPT targets 'stuck points' — maladaptive beliefs about the trauma's meaning related to five domains: safety, trust, power/control, esteem, and intimacy.
Secondary traumatic stress (STS) in mental health professionals is best described as:
Answer: Trauma symptoms that develop as a result of indirect exposure to others' trauma through therapeutic work
STS involves the development of PTSD-like symptoms — intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal — in professionals as a result of indirect exposure to clients' traumatic material.
Somatic therapies for trauma, such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), address PTSD by:
Answer: Working with body sensations and the discharge of trauma-related physiological activation
Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, helps clients track and discharge the trapped physiological activation (survival energy) associated with traumatic experiences.
The polyvagal theory, developed by Porges, is relevant to trauma treatment because it explains how the autonomic nervous system:
Answer: Creates hierarchical defensive responses (social engagement, fight/flight, freeze) that shape trauma responses
Porges' polyvagal theory describes three hierarchical ANS states — ventral vagal (social engagement), sympathetic (fight/flight), and dorsal vagal (freeze) — that underlie trauma responses.
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is specifically designed for use with which population?
Answer: Children and adolescents who have experienced trauma, and their caregivers
TF-CBT was developed by Cohen, Mannarino, and Deblinger specifically for trauma-exposed children and adolescents and their non-offending caregivers.
Dissociation in trauma survivors involves which of the following primary processes?
Answer: A disruption or discontinuity in consciousness, identity, memory, emotion, or behavior as a protective response to overwhelm
Dissociation is an automatic, protective disconnection of normal integrative functions of consciousness, identity, memory, or perception in response to overwhelming experience.