PTG Comprehensive Exam

“Saluto” means __________ “genesis” means _________

Which of these elements is NOT part of coherence

Which of these is NOT a pathogenic approach to health:

What is trauma?

What does NOT describe the 21st century approach to trauma?

Who articulated the concept of salutogenesis? 

Secondary traumatic stress can result from:

ACEs stands for: 

Select the FALSE statement about resilience:

Select the FALSE statement about posttraumatic growth:

The five phases of posttraumatic growth include:

Which of these changes does NOT describe domains of posttraumatic growth:

Select the FALSE statement about Expert Companions:

Fill in the blank: Human beings are by nature experiencing post-traumatic growth. Our job is to _____________________.

What word was used in the late 1800s to describe what we now call trauma, especially in women?

What effective treatment option started in the 1800s and resurfaced in the 1990s?

Who was Pierre Janet’s mentor?

Pierre Janet coined which term we still use today?

Charcot argued vehemently against the popular prejudice that hysteria was only found in women. He acknowledged hysteria in soldiers as well as what other type of then-male worker?

Who worked with Anna O. before Freud?

What term emerged to describe “hysteria” in soldiers during the first world war?

What did Pierre Janet find to be more effective for trauma treatment than convalescence?

For psychiatrists in WWII, success in trauma treatment looked like:

In WWI, French psychiatrist, Salmon, discovered that soldiers were more likely to be able to return to the frontlines if they recovered:

In psychodynamic therapy (popular between 1950-1980), progress was made via:

“Unconditional positive regard” was articulated by Carl Rogers and is a key proponent of

Two methods that were popular in trauma treatments utilized in the 1960’s were:

When did PTSD make it into the DSM?

PTSD came out of Figley’s experience as a veteran from what war?

When was Prozac released to the public?

What increased as a result of the 1980s drug boom?

Who developed trauma-informed care?

When did Otto Van der Hart directly question whether abreaction (flooding/implosion) was effective and ethical?

Who articulated complex trauma along with the tri-phasic model for treating trauma?

What is the ultimate building block of trust and connection?

In the beginning of the 20th century, babies in US orphanages had a 99% chance of dying before 7 months if they did not receive:

Who can create trust and connection with self-regulation and polyvagal-informed relational skills?

Who first articulated the existence of attachment  between caregivers and infants?

When caregivers can __________ distressed infants, the brain learns that others can be trusted and self is worthy of love.

In addition to attachment rupture, trust and connection can be lost through shattered assumptions from experiences such as:

What becomes accessible in a regulated nervous system that can help you build trust and connection?

What can education provide people experiencing trauma?

What is interoception?

What are the two essential elements of Forward-Facing®?

What causes stress symptoms?

What is neuroception?

What part of the brain can be described as the “threat detector”?

What criterion does the DSM require for PTSD or (in the words of Fran Shapiro) big T trauma?

What criterion does Shapiro refer to when discussing “little t trauma?”

Just because it happened, doesn’t mean it will cause trauma in the future. What needs to happen to create future trauma responses?

In the word “polyvagal,” poly means “many.” What does “vagal” mean?

The sympathetic nervous system is:

The more energy coursing through the body, the less:

According to Dr. Gentry, anxiety is an outdated term. We’d be better off just calling it:

What is self-regulation?

“You want to know what heals trauma? ___________ heals trauma.” – Bessel van der Kolk

When practicing acute relaxation:

Who is squeezing the muscles in your body?

Self-regulation is a Forward-Facing practice because:

If we’re in shutdown, what do we need the most?

When you’re able to self-regulate around others, you’re not only offering them co-regulation, you’re:

“The struggle with the _________ of trauma is where the growth occurs.” – Richard Tedeschi

Bereavement refers only to ____________ while grief is about any loss.

The disclosure phase of posttraumatic growth DOES NOT include: 

Select the FALSE statement about grief:

When companioning someone through grief, we want:

When someone is grieving we can expect:

Dysregulated grief DOES NOT include:

Regulated grief includes:

Forward-Facing®️ grief looks like:

“When we self-regulate, we give up the ________________that keeps us from grieving everyday losses.” – Jenny Brackman

What are some phrases an expert companion might say while working in the story phase of posttraumatic growth?

Survivors create a “posttraumatic story.” How can expert companions facilitate growth related to that story?

Select the assumption that is NOT one of the main assumptions shattered by trauma according to posttraumatic growth theory:

Securely attached humans hold these assumptions:

When we work with people to craft new stories, we are helping them:

When a survivor transforms their understanding of trauma responses into survival skills, that evidence of which domain of posttraumatic growth:

Connecting with other survivors is evidence of:

“I am grateful for people I’ve met who I can depend on” is a statement that is evidence of:

“I’m so thankful things are different now than they were for me growing up” is evidence of:

“I’m more comfortable with not having all the answers” is a sign of:

Having a mission:

Why might trauma symptoms be more easily tolerated with a sense of mission?

What is intentionality?

What makes Forward-Facing unique in contrast to traditional PTG approaches?

The reactive to intentional worksheet can be used for:

The formula for hope contains these two pieces:

When you put the formula for hope into action you get:

Our sense of mission is more potent when

“Let this not be in vain” is one way to describe:

Choose the statement that is NOT true about the “expert” part of expert companion. An expert companion:

Choose the statement that is NOT true about the “companion” part of expert companion. An expert companion:

Choose the CORRECT statement about expert companions:

Forward-Facing®️ uniquely emphasizes the expert companion’s ability to:

True or False: Despite the fact that expert companions were initially observed in everyday life, Tedeschi and Calhoun developed the idea of expert companions for licensed clinicians.

What percentage of his work with trauma survivors can paraprofessionals do, according to Dr. Gentry?

Having a contract between you and the person you’re companioning can provide:

People with developmental trauma may have difficulty:

Which parts of the Forward-Facing®️ process catalyze posttraumatic growth?

What doesn’t kill you: