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A clinician should ensure that: [Help]

A Clients do no work on mourning and remembrance until they are completely through the safety and stabilization phase.

B Safety and stabilization are woven through all phases of treatment.

C Clients make a no-self-harm contract.

D Clients go into specific detail as to all sensory components of the trauma experience.

The presence of a supportive figure while trauma is occurring: [Help]

A Reduces the effects of the trauma due to the perceived protective presence of the supportive person.

B Can worsen the effects of the trauma because the victim feels betrayed by the supportive figure’s apparent bystander behavior.

C Has no effect on the impact of the trauma.

D Creates an opportunity for early intervention with the victim.

Factors that need to be addressed for client safety include: [Help]

A Systemic oppression.

B Current relationships.

C Therapist behavior.

D All of the above.

An aspect of safety that is rarely addressed, and which adds cultural competence to trauma treatment is: [Help]

A Diet.

B Exercise.

C Spirituality.

D None of the above - these are all routinely addressed in trauma treatment.

The following is true regarding memory for trauma: [Help]

A Abreaction of painful memories is essential for trauma survivors to completely recover and cease to be avoidant.

B Dealing with the specifics of memory of the trauma is less central to recovery than is stabilization and symptom reduction.

C Memory for trauma that can be transformed into narrative memory will be less intrusive and evocative.

D Most of what people experience as memory for trauma is a distortion of events due to high levels of emotional arousal.

One of the greatest challenges in working with high-functioning trauma survivors is: [Help]

A Realizing that their apparent high function is illusory.

B Realizing that they have experienced a trauma.

C Culturally sanctioned avoidant coping strategies.

D The tendency toward the use of dissociative coping strategies in this group of patients.

Which is the most useful strategy for dealing with trauma survivors engaging in risky behaviors? [Help]

A Harm reduction

B Clear contracts and consequences for engaging in risky behaviors

C Inpatient treatment

D Intensive outpatient treatment

Current research on memory for trauma indicates that: [Help]

A It is impossible to lose and then recover memory for trauma.

B Memories for trauma are often vague and inaccessible for some periods of the survivor's life.

C Continuous memories are more accurate than delayed recall.

D All delayed recalls are likely to be confabulations.

Grieving is: [Help]

A An optional component of trauma treatment because not all trauma involves the loss of a loved one.

B Central to successful metabolizing of the trauma, as all trauma involves loss of something in the survivor's life.

C Less important than carefully working through all details of the memory for the trauma.

D None of the above; grief is a separate issue.

One of the most potent interpersonal variables that a clinician can bring to trauma treatment is: [Help]

A Neutrality.

B Self-disclosure of the clinician's own trauma history.

C Compassion.

D Confronting the client with the reality that their life has changed forever.

Are ethical clinicians bound by the recommendations of specific treatment guidelines? [Help]

A Yes, without question because they reflect the best, most neutrally-reviewed, research on trauma treatment.

B Not necessarily; such guidelines have good information, but also important gaps in their understanding of trauma treatment.

C Never, because such guidelines have failed to take issues of culture and intersectional identities.

D None of the above

Ruptures in work with trauma survivors are: [Help]

A Avoidable, so long as the clinician adheres carefully to guidelines for treatment.

B Only present with the most severely disturbed clients.

C Inevitable, and a sign that treatment is progressing.

D Evidence of a poorly trained clinician.

A relationship variable that Briere and Scott believe to be essential to effective trauma treatment is: [Help]

A Hopefulness.

B Positive regard.

C Self-disclosure.

D Both 1 and 2 above

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is: [Help]

A An evidence-based treatment for PTSD.

B A hoax that should not be used.

C Exposure therapy by another name.

D Risky because it can destabilize people.

Prolonged Exposure (PE): [Help]

A Is particularly effective for complex trauma survivors.

B Must be done in vivo in order to be effective.

C Has been found to be effective when delivered via virtual reality.

D Is much more effective than cognitive processing therapy.

Components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) include: [Help]

A Defusion.

B Disentanglement.

C Disaggregation.

D Reempowerment.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is useful in trauma treatment because: [Help]

A Most trauma survivors develop Borderline Personality Disorder, for which DBT was developed.

B Therapists working with trauma survivors require the types of support that are part of the DBT model.

C DBT Skills offer useful strategies for the Safety and Stabilization phase of treatment.

D DBT is useful for working with substance abusers, which is the most common co-morbid diagnosis for PTSD.

The Contextual Model of trauma treatment: [Help]

A Was developed to work with combat trauma survivors.

B Was developed specifically for complex trauma survivors.

C Focuses on the trauma experiences that have happened in a person's life.

D Requires participation in group treatment.

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