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TF-CBT CERT EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR
VERIFIED||
Which of the following is NOT a therapeutic purpose of creating a
Trauma Narrative? - ANSWER-Learning which people, places, or
situations to avoid so that trauma reactions won't be triggered.
Avoidance of trauma reminders is not a goal of TF-CBT; all the
other options are key reasons for engaging in trauma narrative
development
LaQuan is a 16 year old young woman referred to you by child
welfare due to a long history of physical abuse and one incident of
sexual abuse by caregivers and others. Your trauma assessment
indicated that LaQuan also had been bullied at school and hit,
punched and sexually touched by peers. She also had witnessed
many incidents of violence in the home between her mother and
her mother's boyfriend; she has lived her whole life in a
neighborhood that often has violent incidents that frightened her.
She described significant levels of fear and distress for nearly all
of these incidents she had experienced. Which of these traumatic
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events should be included in her Trauma Narrative? - ANSWER-
Determine which events are associated with the most symptoms
and distress and focus on those.
It is often surprising to us which events that children have
experienced are associated with the greatest amount of distress.
As you make a plan for trauma narration, focus on those events
that are the most responsible for producing symptoms.
What should a therapist do when a child begins to feel distressed
while constructing the Trauma Narrative and wants to stop? -
ANSWER-Pause; remind the child that their distress is a normal
reaction, but that it will get better; encourage the use of stress
management skills they have already learned; then resume
narrative development.
Encourage the use of previously-learned PRAC skills to address
trauma-related distress, and then continue (even if briefly) to work
on the narrative in order to increase the child's sense of mastery.
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Inaccurate or unhelpful cognitions should be addressed by: -
ANSWER-Challenging the child's beliefs.
Encouraging the child to re-evaluate unhelpful or inaccurate
beliefs is one of the core elements of processing the trauma
narrative.
Due to the complicated and sensitive nature of the trauma
narration and processing component, parents should be advised
NOT to challenge their child's inaccurate or unhelpful thoughts
directly? - ANSWER-TRUE.
Cognitive processing activities can be challenging and usually
require patience and strategic questioning. Parents may be too
emotional to engage in these activities properly, and so it is the
therapist's responsibility to engage in processing activities.
Which statement about cognitive processing with younger
children is most accurate? - ANSWER-Using familiar strategies
like relating stories with a moral to learn is often a helpful way of
doing cognitive processing with young children.
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Many children are used to taking lessons from stories they read,
even before they can engage in examining their own thoughts or
beliefs.
Cognitive processing activities with caregivers: - ANSWER-Can
be initiated by reviewing the child's trauma narrative and
discussing caregivers' reactions to it.
This serves both to help caregivers prepare for the narrative and
to explore caregiver reactions to the child's traumatic
experiences.
Which of the following statements is the most accurate about
working with caregivers during the creation of the child's Trauma
Narrative? - ANSWER-Therapists should focus on the caregivers'
reactions to the trauma and helping them challenge their
problematic beliefs about them.
Parent sessions do not stop when the child is working on trauma
narration and processing. Parents frequently have their own
TF-CBT CERT EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR
VERIFIED||
Which of the following is NOT a therapeutic purpose of creating a
Trauma Narrative? - ANSWER-Learning which people, places, or
situations to avoid so that trauma reactions won't be triggered.
Avoidance of trauma reminders is not a goal of TF-CBT; all the
other options are key reasons for engaging in trauma narrative
development
LaQuan is a 16 year old young woman referred to you by child
welfare due to a long history of physical abuse and one incident of
sexual abuse by caregivers and others. Your trauma assessment
indicated that LaQuan also had been bullied at school and hit,
punched and sexually touched by peers. She also had witnessed
many incidents of violence in the home between her mother and
her mother's boyfriend; she has lived her whole life in a
neighborhood that often has violent incidents that frightened her.
She described significant levels of fear and distress for nearly all
of these incidents she had experienced. Which of these traumatic
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events should be included in her Trauma Narrative? - ANSWER-
Determine which events are associated with the most symptoms
and distress and focus on those.
It is often surprising to us which events that children have
experienced are associated with the greatest amount of distress.
As you make a plan for trauma narration, focus on those events
that are the most responsible for producing symptoms.
What should a therapist do when a child begins to feel distressed
while constructing the Trauma Narrative and wants to stop? -
ANSWER-Pause; remind the child that their distress is a normal
reaction, but that it will get better; encourage the use of stress
management skills they have already learned; then resume
narrative development.
Encourage the use of previously-learned PRAC skills to address
trauma-related distress, and then continue (even if briefly) to work
on the narrative in order to increase the child's sense of mastery.
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Inaccurate or unhelpful cognitions should be addressed by: -
ANSWER-Challenging the child's beliefs.
Encouraging the child to re-evaluate unhelpful or inaccurate
beliefs is one of the core elements of processing the trauma
narrative.
Due to the complicated and sensitive nature of the trauma
narration and processing component, parents should be advised
NOT to challenge their child's inaccurate or unhelpful thoughts
directly? - ANSWER-TRUE.
Cognitive processing activities can be challenging and usually
require patience and strategic questioning. Parents may be too
emotional to engage in these activities properly, and so it is the
therapist's responsibility to engage in processing activities.
Which statement about cognitive processing with younger
children is most accurate? - ANSWER-Using familiar strategies
like relating stories with a moral to learn is often a helpful way of
doing cognitive processing with young children.
, 4|Page
Many children are used to taking lessons from stories they read,
even before they can engage in examining their own thoughts or
beliefs.
Cognitive processing activities with caregivers: - ANSWER-Can
be initiated by reviewing the child's trauma narrative and
discussing caregivers' reactions to it.
This serves both to help caregivers prepare for the narrative and
to explore caregiver reactions to the child's traumatic
experiences.
Which of the following statements is the most accurate about
working with caregivers during the creation of the child's Trauma
Narrative? - ANSWER-Therapists should focus on the caregivers'
reactions to the trauma and helping them challenge their
problematic beliefs about them.
Parent sessions do not stop when the child is working on trauma
narration and processing. Parents frequently have their own
