TCI UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● developmental relationships are characterized by:
Answer: - attachment
- reciprocity (ex: throwing a ball back and forth)
- progressive complexity (ex: the medal system)
- balance of power
●● a trauma informed organization:
Answer: - supports and facilitates trauma-informed care through:
- policies
- procedures
- practice
●● a trauma informed organization ensures that staff:
Answer: - understand - understand what trauma is/how it impacts
everyone within the system
- recognize - recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect trauma (past
or present)
,- respond - respond in ways that avoid bringing up trauma
●● the TCI system assists organizations to:
Answer: - prevent crisis from occurring
- de-escalate potential crises
- manage - acute physical behavior
- reduce - potential and actual injury to young people and staff
- teach - young people adaptive coping skills
- develop - a learning organization
●● competencies
Answer: 1.) be able to prevent and/or de-escalate a potential crisis
situation with a child/young person
2.) be able to safely and therapeutically manage a crisis situation
3.) be able to process with children - help improve their capacity to
regulate their emotions and use positive coping strategies
●● therapeutic milieu
Answer: ("the living") the combination of people, emotions, attitudes,
and objects that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care and
accountability
●● spaces within therapeutic milieu
, Answer: (these are the things that we can control - the spaces)
- ideological - connection/programming
- physical - safe/clean environment
- cultural - diversity - accept/celebrate cultural differences
- social - attachments/relationships, develop skills
- emotional - safety/acceptance, effects of trauma
●● setting conditions
Answer: anything that makes challenging behavior/traumatic stress
responses more or less likely to occur
●● foundations for intentional use of self
Answer: - self awareness - knowing own attitudes, beliefs, values
(ready/willing/able - 'neutrality)
- self regulation - focus attention, awareness of physical/emotional state
(regulate behaviors)
- relationship skills/attunement - listen/engage, "tune-in" respond to
child, be aware of own feelings (be present and aware)
- self care - monitor personal, levels of stress, healthy lifestyle/reflexive
supervision
●● the triune brain
Answer: - practiced process
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● developmental relationships are characterized by:
Answer: - attachment
- reciprocity (ex: throwing a ball back and forth)
- progressive complexity (ex: the medal system)
- balance of power
●● a trauma informed organization:
Answer: - supports and facilitates trauma-informed care through:
- policies
- procedures
- practice
●● a trauma informed organization ensures that staff:
Answer: - understand - understand what trauma is/how it impacts
everyone within the system
- recognize - recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect trauma (past
or present)
,- respond - respond in ways that avoid bringing up trauma
●● the TCI system assists organizations to:
Answer: - prevent crisis from occurring
- de-escalate potential crises
- manage - acute physical behavior
- reduce - potential and actual injury to young people and staff
- teach - young people adaptive coping skills
- develop - a learning organization
●● competencies
Answer: 1.) be able to prevent and/or de-escalate a potential crisis
situation with a child/young person
2.) be able to safely and therapeutically manage a crisis situation
3.) be able to process with children - help improve their capacity to
regulate their emotions and use positive coping strategies
●● therapeutic milieu
Answer: ("the living") the combination of people, emotions, attitudes,
and objects that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care and
accountability
●● spaces within therapeutic milieu
, Answer: (these are the things that we can control - the spaces)
- ideological - connection/programming
- physical - safe/clean environment
- cultural - diversity - accept/celebrate cultural differences
- social - attachments/relationships, develop skills
- emotional - safety/acceptance, effects of trauma
●● setting conditions
Answer: anything that makes challenging behavior/traumatic stress
responses more or less likely to occur
●● foundations for intentional use of self
Answer: - self awareness - knowing own attitudes, beliefs, values
(ready/willing/able - 'neutrality)
- self regulation - focus attention, awareness of physical/emotional state
(regulate behaviors)
- relationship skills/attunement - listen/engage, "tune-in" respond to
child, be aware of own feelings (be present and aware)
- self care - monitor personal, levels of stress, healthy lifestyle/reflexive
supervision
●● the triune brain
Answer: - practiced process
