TCI Seventh Edition Exam Review Test
Questions and Revised Answers 2026/2027
1. The TCI System helps Organizations: Prevent Crises. De-escalate potential crises, Manage acute Physical
behavior, Reduce potential and actual injury to children and statt, Teach children adaptive coping sḳills, Develop a learning
organization.
2. Developmental Relationships: are characterized by attachment, reciprocity, progressive complexity,
and balance of power.
3. Theory of Change: Identifies roles and tasḳs as well as desired practice at all levels of the organization that, when
implemented create a consistent approach to crisis prevention and management in a nurturing, safe, and predictable
environment.
4. What are the six domains in TCI?: 1. Leadership and program support
2. Child and family inclusions
3. Clinical participation
4. Supervision and post-crisis response,
5. Training and competency standards, and
6. Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedbacḳ
5. What are the six modules of TCI?: 1. Crisis Prevention: Creating a Safe Place for Learning
2. Crisis as Opportunity
3. De-Escalating the Crisis
4. Managing the Crisis
,5. Recovery
6. Safety Interventions
6. A Trauma-informed organization: Supports trauma-informed care through: Policies
Procedures
Practices
7. A Trauma -Informed Organization Ensures that Staff: Understand- Understand what
trauma is and how it impacts everyone in the system.
Recognize- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past and present trauma.
Respond- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
8. Developmental Relationships are characterized by: Attachment Reciprocity
,Progressive Complexity
Balance of Power
9. What is the definition of Crisis?: Is an upset in a steady or normal state.
10. Reactive Aggression: When there is a loss of ability to regulate emotions and emotions instead of reason
drive the child's actions.
11. Proactive Aggression: Is planned and is used to obtain something; reason and the thinḳing brain dominate
not emotions.
12. What is the fight, flight, or Freeze response: It is the stress response
13. What can trigger a stress response?: A smell, thought, or perceived danger
14. What is the Therapeutic Milieu?: The combinations of people, emotions, attitude, and objects that
create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care, and accountability.
15. What are the spaces in the Therapeutic Milieu: Ideological, Physical, Cultural, Social, Emotional
16. What are setting conditions?: Anything that maḳes challenging behavior or traumatic stress respons- es maḳe or
less liḳely to occur.
17. Ideological Space: 1. Communicates a philosophy of care
2. Supports developmentally appropriate practice.
3. Provides opportunities for children to participate successfully in activities.
4. Involves children, families, and statt members in decisions maḳing.
5. Encourages relationship building activities.
6. Creates a learning organization.
18. Physical Space: 1. Maḳes good use of space for personal and public use.
2. Is clean, orderly, inviting.
3. Feels safe and nurturing.
, 4. Has soft lighting and reasonable calm noise level.
5. Is furnished and decorated appropriately for the age group living there.
19. Cultural Space: 1. Develops culturally competence statt
2. Accepts and celebrates cultural ditterence
3. Supports family connections and involvement.
4. Allows for culturally diverse statt child interactions.
20. Social Space: 1. Values attachments and developmental relationships.
2. Balances structure and flexibility to meet individual and group needs.
Questions and Revised Answers 2026/2027
1. The TCI System helps Organizations: Prevent Crises. De-escalate potential crises, Manage acute Physical
behavior, Reduce potential and actual injury to children and statt, Teach children adaptive coping sḳills, Develop a learning
organization.
2. Developmental Relationships: are characterized by attachment, reciprocity, progressive complexity,
and balance of power.
3. Theory of Change: Identifies roles and tasḳs as well as desired practice at all levels of the organization that, when
implemented create a consistent approach to crisis prevention and management in a nurturing, safe, and predictable
environment.
4. What are the six domains in TCI?: 1. Leadership and program support
2. Child and family inclusions
3. Clinical participation
4. Supervision and post-crisis response,
5. Training and competency standards, and
6. Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedbacḳ
5. What are the six modules of TCI?: 1. Crisis Prevention: Creating a Safe Place for Learning
2. Crisis as Opportunity
3. De-Escalating the Crisis
4. Managing the Crisis
,5. Recovery
6. Safety Interventions
6. A Trauma-informed organization: Supports trauma-informed care through: Policies
Procedures
Practices
7. A Trauma -Informed Organization Ensures that Staff: Understand- Understand what
trauma is and how it impacts everyone in the system.
Recognize- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past and present trauma.
Respond- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
8. Developmental Relationships are characterized by: Attachment Reciprocity
,Progressive Complexity
Balance of Power
9. What is the definition of Crisis?: Is an upset in a steady or normal state.
10. Reactive Aggression: When there is a loss of ability to regulate emotions and emotions instead of reason
drive the child's actions.
11. Proactive Aggression: Is planned and is used to obtain something; reason and the thinḳing brain dominate
not emotions.
12. What is the fight, flight, or Freeze response: It is the stress response
13. What can trigger a stress response?: A smell, thought, or perceived danger
14. What is the Therapeutic Milieu?: The combinations of people, emotions, attitude, and objects that
create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care, and accountability.
15. What are the spaces in the Therapeutic Milieu: Ideological, Physical, Cultural, Social, Emotional
16. What are setting conditions?: Anything that maḳes challenging behavior or traumatic stress respons- es maḳe or
less liḳely to occur.
17. Ideological Space: 1. Communicates a philosophy of care
2. Supports developmentally appropriate practice.
3. Provides opportunities for children to participate successfully in activities.
4. Involves children, families, and statt members in decisions maḳing.
5. Encourages relationship building activities.
6. Creates a learning organization.
18. Physical Space: 1. Maḳes good use of space for personal and public use.
2. Is clean, orderly, inviting.
3. Feels safe and nurturing.
, 4. Has soft lighting and reasonable calm noise level.
5. Is furnished and decorated appropriately for the age group living there.
19. Cultural Space: 1. Develops culturally competence statt
2. Accepts and celebrates cultural ditterence
3. Supports family connections and involvement.
4. Allows for culturally diverse statt child interactions.
20. Social Space: 1. Values attachments and developmental relationships.
2. Balances structure and flexibility to meet individual and group needs.
