TCI Training Questions with verified answers
"What am I feeling now?" - an amygdala hijack Ans✓✓✓ - anger or fear triggers a
fight, flight, or freeze response (an emotional and physical state)
- the amygdala sends a danger message straight to the survival brain (objectivity is
undermined)
- later we ask ourselves, "what am I thinking?"
A physical restraint should only be used when... Ans✓✓✓ Agency policies and
state regulations regarding restraint allow it
The child's individual crisis support plan prescribes it
Our professional dynamic risk assessment indicates it
A restraint should be avoided or discontinued when... Ans✓✓✓ - adults cannot
control the child safely
- adult is not in control - too angry
- child is threatening and is capable of harming staff
- sexual stimulation is the motivation
, - in a public place
- child has a weapon
- child's medical condition prohibits it
- child has emotional problems risking traumatization
- child is on medication(s) that affects their system
A therapeutic milieu... Ans✓✓✓ the combination of people, emotions, attitudes,
and objets that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care, and
accountability
A trauma-informed organization ensures that staff... Ans✓✓✓ - Understand what
trauma is and how it impacts everyone within the system
- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past or present trauma
- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
A trauma-informed organization supports and facilitates trauma-informed care
through: Ans✓✓✓ Policies
Procedures
Practices
Active listening... Ans✓✓✓ - helpings children express their thoughts and feelings
- reduces defensiveness and opposition
"What am I feeling now?" - an amygdala hijack Ans✓✓✓ - anger or fear triggers a
fight, flight, or freeze response (an emotional and physical state)
- the amygdala sends a danger message straight to the survival brain (objectivity is
undermined)
- later we ask ourselves, "what am I thinking?"
A physical restraint should only be used when... Ans✓✓✓ Agency policies and
state regulations regarding restraint allow it
The child's individual crisis support plan prescribes it
Our professional dynamic risk assessment indicates it
A restraint should be avoided or discontinued when... Ans✓✓✓ - adults cannot
control the child safely
- adult is not in control - too angry
- child is threatening and is capable of harming staff
- sexual stimulation is the motivation
, - in a public place
- child has a weapon
- child's medical condition prohibits it
- child has emotional problems risking traumatization
- child is on medication(s) that affects their system
A therapeutic milieu... Ans✓✓✓ the combination of people, emotions, attitudes,
and objets that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care, and
accountability
A trauma-informed organization ensures that staff... Ans✓✓✓ - Understand what
trauma is and how it impacts everyone within the system
- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past or present trauma
- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
A trauma-informed organization supports and facilitates trauma-informed care
through: Ans✓✓✓ Policies
Procedures
Practices
Active listening... Ans✓✓✓ - helpings children express their thoughts and feelings
- reduces defensiveness and opposition
