CWTI PHASE 2 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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Why is trauma important? - ACCURATE ANSWERS Simply removing a child from a dangerous environment will not by itself undo the serious consequences or reverse the negative impacts of early fear learning. There is no doubt that children in harm's way should be removed from a dangerous situation. Howev...
CWTI PHASE 2 EXAM QUESTIONS
CWTI PHASE 2 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |
VERIFIED
Why is trauma important? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Simply
removing a child from a dangerous environment will not by itself undo
the serious consequences or reverse the negative impacts of early fear
learning. There is no doubt that children in harm's way should be
removed from a dangerous situation. However, simply moving a child
out of immediate danger does not in oneself reverse or eliminate the way
that he or she has learned to be fearful. The child's memory retains those
learned links, and such thoughts and memories are sufficient to elicit
ongoing fear and make a child anxious.
Child trauma is - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Witnessing or
experiencing an event that poses a real or perceived threat to the life or
well being of the child or someone close to the child.
,The event overwhelms the child's ability to cope and cause feelings of
fear, helplessness, or horror, which may be expressed by disorganized or
agitated behavior.
Internal alarm system - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ If the threat is
removed, everything returns to normal.
The brain releases chemicals that help the body respond to the threat
(fight, flight, freeze)
The impact of potentially traumatic event - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Depends on several factors:
The child's age and development stage
The child's perception of the danger faced.
Whether the child was the victim or a witness
The child's relationship to the victim or perpetrator
The child's past experience with trauma
The adversities then child faces following the trauma
The presence/availability of adults who can offer help
Trauma and the brain - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Trauma can have
serious consequences for the normal development of children's brains,
brain chemistry, and nervous systems.
, Trauma-induced alterations in biological stress systems can adversely
affect brain development, cognitive and academic skills, and language
acquisition.
Trauma early in childhood predisposes to adult psychiatric illness.
Trauma exposed children and adolescents display changes in their lives
of stress hormones similar to those seen in combat veterans.
Trauma affects response to future stress in life and may also influence
long term health.
Impact of trauma on brain structures - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Maltreated children present with a smaller corpus callosum- the structure
which affects how the brains hemisphere communicate About arousal,
emotion, and cognition.
Adults who were maltreated as children show reduce the volume of the
hippocampus which is responsible for learning and memory and the
prefrontal cortex which regulates behavior cognition emotional
regulation.
Extreme neglect and sensory deprivation affects the development of the
temporal lobe- regulates emotions and receives sensory input and is
associated with emotional and cognitive functioning
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