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Childhood Grief and Tragic Loss: Too Young to Say Goodbye

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1.  Which of the following is a grief-related task associated with the death of a significant person?
  1. Identifying automatic thoughts and writing an impact statement
  2. Challenging and modifying unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma
  3. Reconstructing a narrative about the relationship
  4. Socratic questioning and modifying maladaptive thinking
2.  What is the definition of trauma?
  1. Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.
  2. Trauma is an ecological response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster.
  3. Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that connects your sense of security.
  4. Psychological trauma is a response to an event that a person finds highly uncomplicated.
3.  Prior to age 16, which of the following traumatic stressors are 2/3 of children exposed to in the U.S.?
  1. childhood illness, finances or debt, and school-life balance
  2. child abandonment, poverty and systemic discrimination, and community violence, trafficking, and/or terrorism
  3. family issues, physical health issues, and burnout or fatigue
  4. discrimination, death, loss, or grief, and professional isolation
4.  Which of the following is NOT a traumatic reaction experienced by children?
  1. depressive symptoms
  2. behavioral challenges
  3. academic difficulties
  4. enuresis and encopresis
5.  What are the 3 E’s for trauma screening?
  1. effectiveness, engagement, and efficiency
  2. education, experience, and exposure
  3. event, experience, and effect
  4. economy, ecology, and equity
6.  What are three child-focused models for trauma treatment?
  1. accelerated resolution therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and cognitive processing therapy
  2. child-parent psychotherapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and attachment, self-regulation, and competency
  3. prolonged exposure therapy, brainspotting, and clinical hypnosis
  4. cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic trauma therapy, and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy
7.  Which of the following is NOT an essential building block of resilience?
  1. competence
  2. character
  3. control
  4. collaboration
8.  Children with ____________are unusually open to interactions with strangers. They can be over-eager to form attachments with others, walking up to and even hugging strangers.
  1. reactive attachment disorder
  2. disinhibited social engagement disorder
  3. acute stress disorder
  4. separation anxiety
9.  Which of the following is NOT associated with bereavement for parents?
  1. network trauma
  2. increased psychiatric illness
  3. suicidality
  4. physical health problems
10.  Strong social support safeguards against the negative ____________________ responses to stress are buffers of protection that aid coping.
  1. biological and physiographical
  2. cultural and universal
  3. psychological and physiological
  4. environmental and ecological

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