Questions:
1 What is a traumatic memory?
2 What are the 8 questions for the situation evaluation that your client facing a natural disaster trauma can ask themselves?
3 What are the four guidelines for your client facing trauma to write a letter to their future self?
4 What are the two examples of strategies for your client to work out a specific plan to lower their arousal level?
5 What are the five things that your client should avoid while talking to a child about trauma?
6 What do the letters of the BEMADS protocol stand for when working with flashbacks caused by a natural disaster?
7 When a client experiences a natural disaster, what are the seven downsides or negative outcomes of self-blame?
8 Finish the sentence … The key to dissolving the constriction of the traumatized event is to ___________________.
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Answers:
A. Body, emotions, memory, attention, date, and safe.
B. stay with the sensation until it begins to change
C. With Tom, we developed two techniques of deeper exhalations than inhalations; as well as visualizing the loving smiling face of his wife Karen.
D. Seeing danger realistically; Stopping; Difficulty Receiving Help; Seeking Help; Survivors Guilt; Unpredictability of the World; and Isolation
E. Is this situation threatening? How much of a threat is there?; Is the treat coming from inside or outside of me?; What is my reaction level (encourage them to use a 1-10 point scale)?; Is what I am feeling fear or anger or is it more panic, hysteria, or rage?; What is my body telling me now?; Does it feel like time is slowing down?; What are the ways that others are acting and reacting? Can they see something I don’t? Can I ask them?; Is there evidence I can find to confirm how I am feeling and reacting?
F. Don’t make false promises, don’t fall apart, don’t pass judgment, don’t become an inquisitor, and don’t preach
G. a vivid image that is like a photograph rather than a movie because it stands on its own
H. Write a letter from your future self to your current self from a happier place where you have resolved your issues that are troubling you now; Have your future self describe where you are, what you are doing, what you have gone through to get there, and so on; Your future self can include the crucial things you realized or the steps you took to get to where you are. Write about crucial points that led to your future; Give your present self some advice, and words of encouragement, from the future.
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