Complex Trauma Exam 2025 With
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Type I Trauma - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Unexpected Single Episode
Type II Trauma - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Complex, repetitive,
ongoing trauma.
Higher risk for PTSD (significantly higher)
Complex Trauma 4 Effects on Development -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1. Attachment issues- trust issues
2. Inability to self regulate
3. Lack of self integrity
4. Long term biological and psycho-social stress reactivity
(even when there is no physical threat)
Complex Trauma, 5 Core Problems Of - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1.
Affect dysregulation
2. Structural dissociation
3. Somatic dysregulation
4. Impaired self development
5. Disorganized attachment
The limbic system plays a pivotal role in the regulation of
________ and ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Emotion
Memory
Two important brain regions involved in memory. -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-hippocampus and amygdala
,Hippocampus - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Important in the formation
and retrieval of both verbal and emotional memories. Integrates
implicit memory to create explicit memory.
Amygdala - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Creates the emotional content of
memory.
Implicit Memory 4 Building Blocks - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1. Motor
memory (procedural/behavioral)
2. Perceptual memory (sight/sound)
3. Emotional memory
4. Bodily sensation
The Triune Brain - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Neocortex
Limbic system
Brain stem
Neocortex - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Thinking brain.
Left hemisphere- logic, language, verbal processing
Right hemisphere- creativity and non verbal processing,
imagery
Limbic System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Emotional Brain
Motivation and emotion
Brain Stem - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Physical Brain/survival brain
regulation of autonomic function, arousal and pain systems.
Limbic system communicates with the ________ quicker than
the ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Brain stem
Neocortex
The HPA axis is the biology of a ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Trigger
, The HPA axis is made up of the ________, ________, and
________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Adrenal gland
The Hypothalamus is the control center for the ________,
controls both ________ and ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.
Sympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Fight or flight
response
Stages of life particularly important for brain development -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-2nd year of life, late preadolescent, and
early adolescent
Parasympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Rest and
digest.
Vagus nerve originates from brain stem, receives information
from many places including Hypothalamus --> supplies
Parasympathetic input to visceral organs (heart, lungs, GI
tract).
Pituitary Polyvagal Theory - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Freeze and
dissociation
Pituitary - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Located mm away from
Hypothalamus and under its control
Control center for many hormones
Sends signals to the Adrenal Glands to release hormones
Stress Hormone - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Cortisol
Adrenal Glands - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Located top of kidneys
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Type I Trauma - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Unexpected Single Episode
Type II Trauma - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Complex, repetitive,
ongoing trauma.
Higher risk for PTSD (significantly higher)
Complex Trauma 4 Effects on Development -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1. Attachment issues- trust issues
2. Inability to self regulate
3. Lack of self integrity
4. Long term biological and psycho-social stress reactivity
(even when there is no physical threat)
Complex Trauma, 5 Core Problems Of - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1.
Affect dysregulation
2. Structural dissociation
3. Somatic dysregulation
4. Impaired self development
5. Disorganized attachment
The limbic system plays a pivotal role in the regulation of
________ and ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Emotion
Memory
Two important brain regions involved in memory. -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-hippocampus and amygdala
,Hippocampus - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Important in the formation
and retrieval of both verbal and emotional memories. Integrates
implicit memory to create explicit memory.
Amygdala - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Creates the emotional content of
memory.
Implicit Memory 4 Building Blocks - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-1. Motor
memory (procedural/behavioral)
2. Perceptual memory (sight/sound)
3. Emotional memory
4. Bodily sensation
The Triune Brain - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Neocortex
Limbic system
Brain stem
Neocortex - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Thinking brain.
Left hemisphere- logic, language, verbal processing
Right hemisphere- creativity and non verbal processing,
imagery
Limbic System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Emotional Brain
Motivation and emotion
Brain Stem - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Physical Brain/survival brain
regulation of autonomic function, arousal and pain systems.
Limbic system communicates with the ________ quicker than
the ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Brain stem
Neocortex
The HPA axis is the biology of a ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Trigger
, The HPA axis is made up of the ________, ________, and
________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Adrenal gland
The Hypothalamus is the control center for the ________,
controls both ________ and ________. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems.
Sympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Fight or flight
response
Stages of life particularly important for brain development -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-2nd year of life, late preadolescent, and
early adolescent
Parasympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Rest and
digest.
Vagus nerve originates from brain stem, receives information
from many places including Hypothalamus --> supplies
Parasympathetic input to visceral organs (heart, lungs, GI
tract).
Pituitary Polyvagal Theory - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Freeze and
dissociation
Pituitary - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Located mm away from
Hypothalamus and under its control
Control center for many hormones
Sends signals to the Adrenal Glands to release hormones
Stress Hormone - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Cortisol
Adrenal Glands - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-Located top of kidneys
