Questions And Answers
Spaces within a therapeutic milieu - ✔️ Ideological
physical
cultural
social
emotional
Setting Conditions - ✔️ Anything that makes challenging behavior or
traumatic stress responses more or less likely to occur
Foundations for intentional use of self - ✔️ Selfawareness
self regulation
Relationship skills and attunement
self-care
The triune brain - ✔️ The thinking brain
the emotional brain
the survival brain
Pain Based Behaviors - ✔️ Inability to regulate emotions,
overreaction to situations, impulsive outbursts, trauma re-enactment,
defiance, inflexibility, running away through anger or fear, self-injury,
withdrawal
reptilian brain - ✔️ Survival functions such as breathing, heart rate,
circulation, and most bodily functions that do not require conscious thought
Amygdala - ✔️ To determine whether or not something is a threat
The thinking brain - ✔️ Neocortex- responsible for higher functions
such as reasoning, language, creativity, and abstract thought
The emotional brain - ✔️ Also called the limbic system, and is the
center for emotions, emotional behavior and motivation