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Psychologist Post-Test

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Questions:
1. What are the three types of triggers?
2. What are three techniques that are useful in helping PTSD clients cope with their triggers?
3. What are four techniques that could help your client recall the trauma safely and accurately?
4. What are three challenges in helping clients recall their emotions during the trauma?
5. What are three aspects in addressing clients who are suffering from unresolved anger?
6. What are the three levels of grieving losses?
7. What are three exercises to help clients gain a feeling of empowerment? 		Answers:
A. Memory prompts, revisiting the scene of the trauma, talking to others, and artistic outlets.
B. The trigger coping questionnaire; writing; and the abdominal breathing exercise.
C. How they articulate their anger; the targets at which they direct their anger; and forgiving their targets.
D. Anniversary triggers, current stresses, and bodily triggers.
E. Taking Inventory, Refinding Yourself, and Accentuating the Positive. 
F. Grieving specific losses; grieving the realization of powerlessness; and grieving mortality.
H. Resistant clients; risks; and unresolved grief and anger.

Questions:
8. According to the author, why is survivor guilt no longer one of the formal criteria for diagnosing PTSD?
9. According to Matsakis, what are the two most likely reactions of a combat veteran to one of their triggers?
10. What does Hybels-Steer consider to be an upside of intrusions?
11. According to Schiraldi, what are the five fears that interfere with intimacy in PTSD survivors?
12. According to Porterfield, what is one way that children cope with trauma that is significantly different from adult coping mechanisms?

Answers:
A.  The intrusion can become an opportunity to think about the trauma in order to understand it and its mean­ing, to put it in perspective, and to resolve it by putting it into place.
B.  A combat veteran may respond with anger and aggression, or he may respond with a shutdown of emotion or with attempts to remove himself physically or distance himself emotionally from the trigger.
C.  Instead of experiencing denial, children often consciously and deliber­ately try to rid their minds of all thoughts of the traumatic incident and of the feelings that arise when they have these thoughts.
D.  Although prevalent and devastating among trauma survivors, survival guilt was not seen as being essential to the numbing­ reexperiencing cycle of PTSD.
E.  Loss of control, abandonment, rejection, attack, and one’s own tendency to hurt others.

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