Mental Health Exam 2
(PTSD/Trauma/Crisis intervention)
With 100% Correct Answers
How does SAMHSA define trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Results from an event, series of
events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally
harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and
physical, social, emotional or spiritual well-being.
What are some important points about traumatic events? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Often
unexpected
-Ignite a "fight/flight or freeze" response at the time of the event
-Overwhelm an individuals coping resources
-Can be experienced directly or through the imagination of another person's experience
What determines whether an event is traumatic or not? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How an event
is perceived by that individual
Events that occur OUTSIDE of expected life stages are often perceived as... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Traumatic
What things influence a person's immediate and long term response to potentially traumatic
events? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Biopsychosocial and cultural factors
What are some common traumatic events experienced by children? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Physical abuse
-Emotional abuse
,-Sexual abuse
-Severe childhood neglect
-Interpersonal trauma
-Repeated abandonment
-Sudden and traumatic loss
The greater the number of adverse childhood experiences a person has had, the more
vulnerability that person may have to... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mental and medical illnesses
-Psychosocial stressors
-Ineffective coping
-PTSD
For most people, regardless of the severity of the trauma, the immediate and enduring effects
of trauma are met with... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Resilience
What is commonly found amongst people who have experienced trauma? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Substance abuse disorders which is known to predispose people to higher rates of
trauma
What percentage of veterans with PTSD also have substance abuse issues? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔60-80%
Traumatic stress increases what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The risk for mental illness and
symptom severity in mental illness
What are the trauma related disorders in adults? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-PTSD
-Acute stress disorder
-Adjustment disorder
, -Dissociative disorders
What are the types of dissociative disorders? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-Depersonalization/derealization
-Dissociative amnesia
-Dissociative identity disorder
What is PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Usually occurs after exposure to HIGHLY traumatic
events involving actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others
What are the feelings of PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔**Associated with feelings of**
-Intense fear
-Horror
-Helplessness
What is the incidence of PTSD in combat vets and rape victims? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔10-30%
Why are women twice as likely as men to develop PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Women have
a much higher incidence of sexual trauma
What are the symptoms of PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reexperiencing the trauma through
intrusive memories, nightmares, and flashbacks
-Avoidance of stimuli (triggers) associated with the trauma accompanied by the feelings of
numbness, detachment, emptiness, estrangement/isolation
-Alterations in mood
(PTSD/Trauma/Crisis intervention)
With 100% Correct Answers
How does SAMHSA define trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Results from an event, series of
events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally
harmful or threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and
physical, social, emotional or spiritual well-being.
What are some important points about traumatic events? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Often
unexpected
-Ignite a "fight/flight or freeze" response at the time of the event
-Overwhelm an individuals coping resources
-Can be experienced directly or through the imagination of another person's experience
What determines whether an event is traumatic or not? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔How an event
is perceived by that individual
Events that occur OUTSIDE of expected life stages are often perceived as... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Traumatic
What things influence a person's immediate and long term response to potentially traumatic
events? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Biopsychosocial and cultural factors
What are some common traumatic events experienced by children? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Physical abuse
-Emotional abuse
,-Sexual abuse
-Severe childhood neglect
-Interpersonal trauma
-Repeated abandonment
-Sudden and traumatic loss
The greater the number of adverse childhood experiences a person has had, the more
vulnerability that person may have to... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mental and medical illnesses
-Psychosocial stressors
-Ineffective coping
-PTSD
For most people, regardless of the severity of the trauma, the immediate and enduring effects
of trauma are met with... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Resilience
What is commonly found amongst people who have experienced trauma? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Substance abuse disorders which is known to predispose people to higher rates of
trauma
What percentage of veterans with PTSD also have substance abuse issues? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔60-80%
Traumatic stress increases what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The risk for mental illness and
symptom severity in mental illness
What are the trauma related disorders in adults? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-PTSD
-Acute stress disorder
-Adjustment disorder
, -Dissociative disorders
What are the types of dissociative disorders? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-Depersonalization/derealization
-Dissociative amnesia
-Dissociative identity disorder
What is PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Usually occurs after exposure to HIGHLY traumatic
events involving actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others
What are the feelings of PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔**Associated with feelings of**
-Intense fear
-Horror
-Helplessness
What is the incidence of PTSD in combat vets and rape victims? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔10-30%
Why are women twice as likely as men to develop PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Women have
a much higher incidence of sexual trauma
What are the symptoms of PTSD? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reexperiencing the trauma through
intrusive memories, nightmares, and flashbacks
-Avoidance of stimuli (triggers) associated with the trauma accompanied by the feelings of
numbness, detachment, emptiness, estrangement/isolation
-Alterations in mood
