Crisis Intervention and Trauma Counseling Flashcards

The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study demonstrated that childhood trauma is associated with:

Answer: Increased risk for physical and mental health problems across the lifespan

The ACE study found a dose-response relationship between childhood adversity and increased risk for physical illness, mental health disorders, and early mortality in adulthood.

In Judith Herman's three-stage model of trauma recovery, the first stage focuses on:

Answer: Safety and stabilization

Herman's first stage, safety and stabilization, establishes physical and emotional safety before processing traumatic memories.

Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is organized around which foundational reframe?

Answer: Shifting from 'What is wrong with you?' to 'What happened to you?'

Trauma-Informed Care reframes the clinical lens from pathology to understanding how trauma experiences shape a person's current behaviors and responses.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was originally developed by:

Answer: Francine Shapiro

Francine Shapiro developed EMDR in the late 1980s after discovering that bilateral eye movements reduced the distress associated with traumatic memories.

Which therapeutic approach is considered the most evidence-based first-line treatment for PTSD according to current clinical guidelines?

Answer: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Trauma-Focused CBT and Prolonged Exposure are consistently rated as the highest-evidence treatments for PTSD in adult and child populations.

Complex PTSD (as described in ICD-11) differs from standard PTSD primarily by including:

Answer: Disturbances in self-organization including affect dysregulation, negative self-concept, and relational difficulties

Complex PTSD adds three domains of self-organization disturbance — affect dysregulation, negative self-concept, and relational disturbances — to the core PTSD symptoms.