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Treating Trauma: Basic Skills and Specific Treatments - Test
by Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP

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1. A clinician should ensure that:	Help
Clients do no work on mourning and remembrance until they are completely through the safety and stabilization phase. Safety and stabilization are woven through all phases of treatment. Clients make a no-self-harm contract. Clients go into specific detail as to all sensory components of the trauma experience.

2. Factors that need to be addressed for client safety include:	Help
Systemic oppression. Current relationships. Therapist behavior. All of the above.

3. An aspect of safety that is rarely addressed, and which adds cultural competence to trauma treatment is:	Help
Diet. Exercise. Spirituality. None of the above - these are all routinely addressed in trauma treatment.

4. The following is true regarding memory for trauma:

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Abreaction of painful memories is essential for trauma survivors to completely recover and cease to be avoidant.
Dealing with memory is less central to recovery than is stabilization and symptom reduction.
Memory for trauma that can be transformed into narrative memory will be less intrusive and evocative.
Most of what people experience as memory for trauma is a distortion of events due to high levels of emotional arousal.

5. One of the greatest challenges in working with high-functioning trauma survivors is:	Help
Realizing that their apparent high function is illusory. Realizing that they have experienced a trauma. Culturally sanctioned avoidant coping strategies. Both 2 and 3 above

6. Current research on memory for trauma indicates that:	Help
It is impossible to lose and then recover memory for trauma. Memories for trauma are often vague and inaccessible for some periods of the survivor's life. Continuous memories are more accurate than delayed recall. All delayed recalls are likely to be confabulations.

7. A relationship variable that Briere and Scott believe to be essential to effective trauma treatment is:	Help
Hopefulness. Positive regard. Self-disclosure. Both 1 and 2 above

8. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is:	Help
Empirically supported as treatment for PTSD. A hoax, and should not be used. Exposure therapy by another name. Risky because it can destabilize people.

9. Prolonged Exposure (PE):	Help
Is particularly effective for complex trauma survivors. Must be done in vivo in order to be effective. Has been found to be effective when delivered via virtual reality. Is much more effective than cognitive processing therapy.

10. Components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) include:	Help
Defusion. Disentanglement. Disaggregation. Reempowerment.

11. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is useful in trauma treatment because:	Help
Most trauma survivors develop Borderline Personality Disorder, for which DBT was developed. Therapists working with trauma survivors require the types of support that are part of the DBT model. DBT Skills offer useful strategies for the Safety and Stabilization phase of treatment. DBT is useful for working with substance abusers, which is the most common co-morbid diagnosis for PTSD.

12. The Trauma Resolution Integration Program (TRIP) model:	Help
Was developed to work with combat trauma survivors. Was developed specifically for complex trauma survivors. Focuses on the trauma experiences that have happened in a person's life. Requires participation in group treatment.

Treating Trauma: Basic Skills and Specific Treatments - Test by Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP

Treating Trauma: Basic Skills and Specific Treatments - Test
by Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP