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Strategies for Treating PTSD Part 2

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1.  According to van der Kolk, research on healing from PTSD does NOT include:
  1. Community
  2. Affect regulation
  3. Effective breaks from triggers
  4. Processing traumatic memories
2.  Which of the following is NOT a PTSD healing approach?
  1. Yoga, tai chi, qigong
  2. Brainspotting
  3. Neurofeedback
  4. EMDR
3.  Instinctive trauma responses are:
  1. ineffective
  2. detrimental
  3. neutral
  4. brilliant and purposeful
4.  One difference between freeze vs. collapse is:
  1. Freeze causes temperature drop and collapse does not.
  2. freeze is a hyper arousal while collapse is hypo arousal.
  3. Collapse actually has high energy.
  4. Collapse has tense muscles.
5.  Which of the following is NOT a strategy for freeze?
  1. Not too much eye contact
  2. Ask permission
  3. Engaging in mindfulness
  4. Explicit narrating of what you are doing
6.  Which of the following is NOT a strategy for collapse?
  1. Saying mantras
  2. Activating mobilization system
  3. Light pressure
  4. Movement to increase heart rate
7.  Pat Ogden suggests:
  1. using a body-oriented approach to treatment
  2. using a mind-oriented approach to treatment
  3. using a wellness-oriented approach to treatment
  4. using a mind and wellness-oriented approach to treatment
8.  Which of the following is NOT a possible trigger in PTSD?
  1. a realization
  2. smell
  3. person
  4. thought
9.  The Window of Presence is:
  1. important to avoid
  2. a stress response
  3. sympathetic nervous system
  4. the ventral vagal
10.  Which of the following is a self-soothing technique?
  1. Ruminating thoughts
  2. Heavy breathing
  3. Stretching
  4. Tools for rage

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