Questions for Helping Professionals

1. If trauma is an “implicit” experience for most, rather than an “explicit” one, do you know how to help children when they are unable to access normal, explicit cognitive processes?

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2. Can you identify ten trauma-specific questions that can help the child focus on the “experience” of his/her trauma – what it was like at an implicit, sensory level?

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3. Do you know what the importance of “iconic” symbolization trauma intervention is?

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4. Do you know what two words best describe terror as well as direct the focus of the TLC interventions?

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5. Do you know how trauma-driven nightmares are different from grief-driven nightmares?

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6. Do you know what three thoughts define survivor guilt?

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7. If you accept that children exposed to the same potentially trauma-inducing incident will have varied responses and levels of intensity, do you know the three levels of interventions that will afford the most appropriate interventions for these variances.

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8. Can you identify 10 different activities teachers could use to help traumatized children?

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9. Do you know what kind of intervention to use for both violent and non-violent trauma-inducing situations?

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10. If trauma does indeed negatively impact learning, do you know what school personnel can do to prevent the development of trauma-specific reactions and/or help restore learning functions disabled by trauma?

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11. When a parent is terrified by the exposure of his/her child to a traumatic situation and asks for help, do you know what to ask before you could possibly know what might be the best suggestions to present?

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12. Do you know what mashed potatoes have to do with trauma?

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13. Hurt is a sensation of trauma. Can you identify 15 questions to ask about hurt?

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14. Do you know how a traumatized child might visually portray his worry, and how it may be used as a benchmark for healing?

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