After completing this course you’ll be able to:
| 1. | State the first step in dealing with trauma. |
| 2. | Define disassociation. |
| 3. | List the three major types of factors that influence the development of PTSD. |
| 4. | Define the sense of “coherence.” |
| 5. | Define eustress and distress. |
| 6. | Define depersonalization. |
| 7. | State when PTSD symptoms are acute, chronic and delayed. |
| 8. | List the seven symptoms of complex PTSD. |
| 9. | Define psychoeducation. |
| 10. | Define grounded. |
| 11. | Describe the four types of safety. |
| 12. | Describe the SUDS scale. |
| 13. | Define a metaphor. |
| 14. | Define and abreaction. |
| 15. | Discuss the research of Matsakis (1998) regarding hyperarousal. |
| 16. | Define containment. |
| 17. | Define homeostasis. |
| 18. | Define shutdown. |
| 19. | Define how anger is a signal emotion and when it becomes rage. |
| 20. | List examples of affirmation. |
| 21. | Describe guilt. |
| 22. | Describe shame. |
| 23. | List several types of loss and its consequences experienced with trauma. |
| 24. | Describe a healing ritual. |
| 25. | Define learned helplessness. |
| 26. | State the most common form of self-mutilation. |
| 27. | Describe an emotional boundary. |
| 28. | State the most familiar kind of dissociation, according to Rothschild (2000,65). |
| 29. | Describe Levine’s SIBAM model of dissociation. |
| 30. | Define somatizaton and list conversion symptoms. |
| 31. | State the functions of the amygdale and hippocampus when describing chronic pain. |
| 32. | Define schemas. |
| 33. | List the five basic psychological needs that motivate behavior, according to McCann and Pearlman (1990). |
| 34. | Define forgiveness according to Enright and Fitzgibbons(2000). |
| 35. | List three ways you can forgive. |
| 36. | List three main aspects that the impact of trauma has on interpersonal relationships. |
| 37. | Define intimacy. |
| 38. | State the single most important predictor of who develops long-term PTSD and other traumatic reactions, according to Matsakis. |
| 39. | Compare physical and emotional boundary. |
| 40. | Describe “Our Relationship Contract.” |
| 41. | List the purpose of paraphrasing. |
| 42. | Describe a probing question. |
| 43. | Define “black humor.” |
| 44. | Describe the “I” messages. |
| 45. | Define control talk, fight talk and spite talk. |
| 46. | Compare search and straight talk. |
| 47. | Describe the “belief in a foreshortened future.” |
| 48. | List the three attitudes that help you have hope. |
| 49. | Define coherence, according to Antonovsky. |
| 50. | Define “Salutogenesis.” |