TCI - Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Test
Review 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Answers | A+ Score Assured
TCI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔purpose:
- trauma informed care/de-escalate
- having physical presence
- this technique works for ages 5 and up (no one younger than 5)
- all feelings are valid, how you respond is what is important
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
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, 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
- co-regulation techniques
(neocortex)
1.) the thinking brain - reasoning, higher functioning, thinking
2.) the emotional brain (limbic system) emotions and motivations
3.) the survival brain - (brain stem) heart rate, breathing, automatic
pain-based behavior - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(fight, flight, or freeze)
Review 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Answers | A+ Score Assured
TCI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔purpose:
- trauma informed care/de-escalate
- having physical presence
- this technique works for ages 5 and up (no one younger than 5)
- all feelings are valid, how you respond is what is important
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
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, 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
- co-regulation techniques
(neocortex)
1.) the thinking brain - reasoning, higher functioning, thinking
2.) the emotional brain (limbic system) emotions and motivations
3.) the survival brain - (brain stem) heart rate, breathing, automatic
pain-based behavior - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔(fight, flight, or freeze)
