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Traumatic Grief: Where Trauma and Grief Intersect

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1.  Stress and stressful situations are a normal part of life. When the response to a traumatic or stressful event becomes excessive, problematic responses can affect every aspect of an individual's cognitive, behavioral, physiological, biological, and social responses. The extreme responses are categorized as trauma and stressor-related disorders. The following is an example of a disorder under this heading:
  1. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  2. Bipolar Disorder
  3. Excoriation Disorder
  4. Conduct Disorder
2.  Responses to trauma can include all of the following EXCEPT:
  1. Intense Fear
  2. Horror
  3. Mania
  4. Helplessness
3.  Activation of survival responses include:
  1. Flight, Fight, Fear
  2. Flight, Fight, Freeze
  3. Flight, Facts, Freeze
  4. Fake, Fight, Freeze
4.  Traumatic grief is defined as:
  1. Death of a loved one with distressing preoccupation
  2. Exposure to actual or threatened death
  3. Death of a loved one
  4. The process of experiencing psychological, behavioral, social, and physical reactions to the perception of loss
5.  In the concept of order, disorder, reorder; reorder is:
  1. The catalyst that throws our lives into disorder
  2. The daily rhythm, routine, and structure of our lives
  3. An event that disorders the order of our lives
  4. The new order of life after the event that caused disorder
6.  The “A” Framework includes:
  1. Awareness, Ascend, Adapt
  2. Arrange, Ascend, Adapt
  3. Awareness, Adapt, Advance
  4. Awareness, Avoid, Advance
7.  The twin tasks of traumatic bereavement are:
  1. Empowerment & adjustment
  2. Trauma mastery & loss accommodation
  3. Absorb the event & accommodate the loss
  4. Avoidance & acceptance
8.  All of the following are risk factors for traumatic grief EXCEPT:
  1. Human-caused event
  2. Randomness
  3. Natural Circumstances
  4. Preventability
9.  Post-traumatic growth is reflected in all of the following EXCEPT:
  1. The conviction that things will turn out well
  2. Strengthening of relationships/sense of connection
  3. Increased sense of personal strengths
  4. Awareness of increased possibilities in life
10.  The 3 Es of trauma-informed care are:
  1. Event, Expectations, Effect
  2. Event, Experience, Effect
  3. Event, Experience, Evolve
  4. Education, Expectations, Evolve

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