BHS 175 TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The shutdown process is part of what system - ✔✔The Dorsal Vagal System
✔✔What causes the body's alarm system to become hypersensitivity long after the
traumatic event - ✔✔Structural and functional changes in the brain
✔✔What is the meaning of the concept of trauma genesis - ✔✔The etiology or cause of
trauma
✔✔Traumatic stress has the potential to rewrite the neurocircuitry in the nervous system
- ✔✔True
✔✔Trauma informed professionals view trauma induced symptomatic behaviors caused
by the disease, disorder or intentionality. - ✔✔False
✔✔Emotional contagion - ✔✔the process by which emotions are transferred from one
person to another
✔✔Emotion contagion occurs through a process known as somatic energy - ✔✔True
✔✔When exposed to traumatic stress , why does the body shut down it's health
sustaining systems - ✔✔to divert energy to self preservation systems for survival
✔✔What is the key to integrating trauma memories - ✔✔Tell and process your trauma
story in a mindful and relaxed
state._________________________________________________________________
____________
It is key that the client has successfully learned to self soothe in order to be able to
become desensitized to the traumatic memories over time.
✔✔________is passed onto future generations - ✔✔Epigenetic Trauma
✔✔Does psychiatry place an emphasis on medicine, drug interactions, diagnosis or
prevention, support systems, cultivating good mental health? - ✔✔place an emphasis
on medicine, drug interactions, diagnosis
✔✔The _______ is an area of the brain that gives us a sense of time - ✔✔Dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex
✔✔The scientific work of psychiatry places a strong emphasis on cultivating good
mental health - ✔✔False
, ✔✔Trauma induced symptoms were once clustered into three categories but are now
clustered into three categories but are now clustered into - ✔✔4
✔✔The cluster symptoms called constriction were split into two which two categories? -
✔✔Numbing and Avoidance
✔✔Which cluster of trauma -induced symptoms causes someone to evade sounds or
smells associated with the traumatic event. - ✔✔Cluster- Avoidance
✔✔Trauma induces system clusters are _____________ - ✔✔Hyperarousal
Intrusion
Constriction Avoidance
Constriction Numbing
✔✔Which cluster of trauma - induced symptoms , includes flashbacks common in PTSD
- ✔✔Numbing
✔✔In the DSM-4 PTSD was classified as an anxiety disorder - ✔✔True
✔✔Traumatic stress injury is an official diagnosis recently accepted in the DSM 5 -
✔✔False
✔✔Symptoms must present within __ months of the stressful event or situation to be
considered an adjustment disorder - ✔✔3 months
✔✔The work of ____ influenced the development of exposure therapy - ✔✔Wolpe
✔✔____________ developed the tri-phasic model - ✔✔Judith Herman 1992
✔✔How many phases are found in the tri-phasic model & what are the phases - ✔✔3
phases
Phase 1. safety and stability
Phase 2. Trauma Memory Processing
Phase 3.Reconnection
✔✔The Veteran Administration/ Department of Defense recommends trauma - focused
cognitive behavioral therapy to treat soldiers with PTSD - ✔✔False
✔✔In what phase does coaching of in- session self- regulation begin ? - ✔✔preparation
and relationship building
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The shutdown process is part of what system - ✔✔The Dorsal Vagal System
✔✔What causes the body's alarm system to become hypersensitivity long after the
traumatic event - ✔✔Structural and functional changes in the brain
✔✔What is the meaning of the concept of trauma genesis - ✔✔The etiology or cause of
trauma
✔✔Traumatic stress has the potential to rewrite the neurocircuitry in the nervous system
- ✔✔True
✔✔Trauma informed professionals view trauma induced symptomatic behaviors caused
by the disease, disorder or intentionality. - ✔✔False
✔✔Emotional contagion - ✔✔the process by which emotions are transferred from one
person to another
✔✔Emotion contagion occurs through a process known as somatic energy - ✔✔True
✔✔When exposed to traumatic stress , why does the body shut down it's health
sustaining systems - ✔✔to divert energy to self preservation systems for survival
✔✔What is the key to integrating trauma memories - ✔✔Tell and process your trauma
story in a mindful and relaxed
state._________________________________________________________________
____________
It is key that the client has successfully learned to self soothe in order to be able to
become desensitized to the traumatic memories over time.
✔✔________is passed onto future generations - ✔✔Epigenetic Trauma
✔✔Does psychiatry place an emphasis on medicine, drug interactions, diagnosis or
prevention, support systems, cultivating good mental health? - ✔✔place an emphasis
on medicine, drug interactions, diagnosis
✔✔The _______ is an area of the brain that gives us a sense of time - ✔✔Dorsolateral
prefrontal cortex
✔✔The scientific work of psychiatry places a strong emphasis on cultivating good
mental health - ✔✔False
, ✔✔Trauma induced symptoms were once clustered into three categories but are now
clustered into three categories but are now clustered into - ✔✔4
✔✔The cluster symptoms called constriction were split into two which two categories? -
✔✔Numbing and Avoidance
✔✔Which cluster of trauma -induced symptoms causes someone to evade sounds or
smells associated with the traumatic event. - ✔✔Cluster- Avoidance
✔✔Trauma induces system clusters are _____________ - ✔✔Hyperarousal
Intrusion
Constriction Avoidance
Constriction Numbing
✔✔Which cluster of trauma - induced symptoms , includes flashbacks common in PTSD
- ✔✔Numbing
✔✔In the DSM-4 PTSD was classified as an anxiety disorder - ✔✔True
✔✔Traumatic stress injury is an official diagnosis recently accepted in the DSM 5 -
✔✔False
✔✔Symptoms must present within __ months of the stressful event or situation to be
considered an adjustment disorder - ✔✔3 months
✔✔The work of ____ influenced the development of exposure therapy - ✔✔Wolpe
✔✔____________ developed the tri-phasic model - ✔✔Judith Herman 1992
✔✔How many phases are found in the tri-phasic model & what are the phases - ✔✔3
phases
Phase 1. safety and stability
Phase 2. Trauma Memory Processing
Phase 3.Reconnection
✔✔The Veteran Administration/ Department of Defense recommends trauma - focused
cognitive behavioral therapy to treat soldiers with PTSD - ✔✔False
✔✔In what phase does coaching of in- session self- regulation begin ? - ✔✔preparation
and relationship building
