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Trauma Counselling Exam QuestionsAnswers Latest Update 2025
Definitions of TRAUMA -
correct answer ✅An inescapably stressful event that overwhelms
people's coping mechanisms. (Bessel Van Der Kolk)
An event is traumatic if it is extremely upsetting, at least
temporarily overwhelms the individual's internal resources, and
produces lasting psychological symptoms. (Briere and Scott)
Trauma is an experience....(that) breaks or betrays our inherent
need for safety, belonging and dignity. (Staci Haines)
What are the 3 stages of trauma recovery? -
correct answer ✅Stage One: Safety and Stabilization
Stage Two: Trauma Processing
Stage Three: Reconnection
Define the stage Safety and Stabilization. -
correct answer ✅This involves working toward internal and
external safety, building a therapeutic alliance, understanding the
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Answers Latest Update 2025
impact of trauma and violence, self-care, sobriety or harm
reduction, and developing resources to increase the ability to
tolerate affect (emotion), self-soothe and improve self-esteem.
Survivors begin to make connections and learn skills for managing
their symptoms. *Containment*
Define the stage Trauma Processing. -
correct answer ✅Once safety and stabilization have been
achieved, this is the time to address the deeper impact of trauma
by processing and integrating the traumatic experiences. This is a
time of grief and mourning, deconstructing negative beliefs,
developing positive schemas or beliefs and addressing and
intervening in post-traumatic symptoms
Define the stage Reconnection. -
correct answer ✅Perhaps best stated by Judith Herman (1992),
this is a time for reconnection with others and with "ordinary" life.
In this stage, the counsellor is somewhat of a sounding board as the
survivor practices new learnings and behaviors and builds new
experiences.
Define dissociation. -
correct answer ✅An experience of disconnection from oneself and
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