BHS 175 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔If you start to mimic your patient/client's shallow or rapid breathing, what system in
your body becomes activated - ✔✔Sympathetic nervous system
✔✔If you start to mimic your patient/clients' sad frown, what system in your body
becomes activated - ✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system
✔✔if you notice your nervous system is being hacked by your patients'/clients'
emotional state of depression, one desynchronizing skill you can practice is
___________
Correct Answer - ✔✔Sit up straight
✔✔Good self-care of your nervous system requires practicing skills in-vivo (while in the
presence of your patient/clients) to prevent your nervous system from being hijacked by
someone else's emotions - ✔✔true
✔✔Trauma-informed professionals help survivors overcome challenging behaviors -
✔✔false
✔✔The first task in creating stability is ___________________________ - ✔✔Creating
an environment of safety
✔✔In the practice of mindfulness, you should never think or worry about the past -
✔✔false
✔✔Trust is really about predictability. - ✔✔true
✔✔Grounding techniques are a form of deep relaxation used to self-regulate - ✔✔false
✔✔Your style of communication can activate or deactivate the security defense system
of the other person (receiver - ✔✔true
✔✔What is the antidote for defensiveness - ✔✔Accepting full or partial responsibility
✔✔The inhaling process during breathing exercises causes the body to relax - ✔✔false
✔✔If you don't teach survivors to self-regulate outside of your presence, you can hinder
the recovery and healing process by creating dependency - ✔✔true
✔✔What is the second step required to express our needs using a gentle startup -
✔✔Describe the situation without blaming
, ✔✔ According to Dr. Herman, "disasters" is the common name used for traumatic
occurrences derived from human design - ✔✔false
✔✔Childhood abuse includes neglectfully withholding medical care or other necessities
to sustain life - ✔✔true
✔✔Throughout human history, hysteria was believed to be caused by - ✔✔A wandering
uterus
Substance Being retained in the uterus
Unbearable emotions stemming from psychological trauma
Sexual deprivation
✔✔Jean-Martin Charcot was a student of Sigmund Freud. - ✔✔false
✔✔The feminist movement helped officially recognize that post-traumatic stress
disorder can result from the hideous acts of perpetrators (e.g., rape, domestic violence,
etc - ✔✔true
✔✔Who proposed that the symptoms of hysteria were caused by perverted acts of
childhood sexual abuse but later recanted - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
✔✔Who was one of the first to humanely treat soldiers suffering from war neurosis -
✔✔William Rivers
✔✔During World War II, what was the primary goal of treatment? - ✔✔Return the
soldier to the battlefield
✔✔From World War I to Vietnam, soldiers who exhibited trauma-induced symptoms
were considered psychologically ill or predisposed to be mentally ill, even weak and
cowardly, by mental health professionals - ✔✔true
✔✔During what decade did the DSM recognize post-traumatic stress disorder as an
actual condition - ✔✔The 1980s
✔✔The sympathetic nervous system manages the body's ______________ -
✔✔Energy and survival systems
✔✔The parasympathetic nervous system manages the body's _______ - ✔✔Rest and
relaxation systems
✔✔The Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary System is built to deal with what type of
stressors - ✔✔Immediate
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔If you start to mimic your patient/client's shallow or rapid breathing, what system in
your body becomes activated - ✔✔Sympathetic nervous system
✔✔If you start to mimic your patient/clients' sad frown, what system in your body
becomes activated - ✔✔Parasympathetic nervous system
✔✔if you notice your nervous system is being hacked by your patients'/clients'
emotional state of depression, one desynchronizing skill you can practice is
___________
Correct Answer - ✔✔Sit up straight
✔✔Good self-care of your nervous system requires practicing skills in-vivo (while in the
presence of your patient/clients) to prevent your nervous system from being hijacked by
someone else's emotions - ✔✔true
✔✔Trauma-informed professionals help survivors overcome challenging behaviors -
✔✔false
✔✔The first task in creating stability is ___________________________ - ✔✔Creating
an environment of safety
✔✔In the practice of mindfulness, you should never think or worry about the past -
✔✔false
✔✔Trust is really about predictability. - ✔✔true
✔✔Grounding techniques are a form of deep relaxation used to self-regulate - ✔✔false
✔✔Your style of communication can activate or deactivate the security defense system
of the other person (receiver - ✔✔true
✔✔What is the antidote for defensiveness - ✔✔Accepting full or partial responsibility
✔✔The inhaling process during breathing exercises causes the body to relax - ✔✔false
✔✔If you don't teach survivors to self-regulate outside of your presence, you can hinder
the recovery and healing process by creating dependency - ✔✔true
✔✔What is the second step required to express our needs using a gentle startup -
✔✔Describe the situation without blaming
, ✔✔ According to Dr. Herman, "disasters" is the common name used for traumatic
occurrences derived from human design - ✔✔false
✔✔Childhood abuse includes neglectfully withholding medical care or other necessities
to sustain life - ✔✔true
✔✔Throughout human history, hysteria was believed to be caused by - ✔✔A wandering
uterus
Substance Being retained in the uterus
Unbearable emotions stemming from psychological trauma
Sexual deprivation
✔✔Jean-Martin Charcot was a student of Sigmund Freud. - ✔✔false
✔✔The feminist movement helped officially recognize that post-traumatic stress
disorder can result from the hideous acts of perpetrators (e.g., rape, domestic violence,
etc - ✔✔true
✔✔Who proposed that the symptoms of hysteria were caused by perverted acts of
childhood sexual abuse but later recanted - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
✔✔Who was one of the first to humanely treat soldiers suffering from war neurosis -
✔✔William Rivers
✔✔During World War II, what was the primary goal of treatment? - ✔✔Return the
soldier to the battlefield
✔✔From World War I to Vietnam, soldiers who exhibited trauma-induced symptoms
were considered psychologically ill or predisposed to be mentally ill, even weak and
cowardly, by mental health professionals - ✔✔true
✔✔During what decade did the DSM recognize post-traumatic stress disorder as an
actual condition - ✔✔The 1980s
✔✔The sympathetic nervous system manages the body's ______________ -
✔✔Energy and survival systems
✔✔The parasympathetic nervous system manages the body's _______ - ✔✔Rest and
relaxation systems
✔✔The Sympathetic-Adrenomedullary System is built to deal with what type of
stressors - ✔✔Immediate
