Trauma And Post Traumatic Stress Test

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Medical Whistleblower training on Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress, a quick multiple choice survey to assess basic knowledge of PTSD.

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Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress

Survey Test of Learning Objectives

Answers available from [email protected]

True or False:

1. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an emotional and physiological response to a trauma severe enough to be overwhelming and that alters the life those who experience it.

True or False

2. Any human being has the potential to develop PTSD because the cause external and not resulting from the individual’s personality.

True or False

3. Secondary trauma can occur due to lack of support from friends, family, and co-workers resulting in a victim’s lack of trust, isolation from society, and a fear of feeling.

True or False

4. Symptoms of PTSD include intrusive recollections, nightmares, emotional (somatic) memories, acting out/reliving trauma, reenactment play, perceptual illusions, dissociation, and problems with memory retrieval.

True or False

5. Crime survivors suffering from PTSD can feel shameful, guilty, abandoned, vulnerable, hopeless and helpless and loose interest in things they used to enjoy.

True or False

6. PTSD suffers should be forced to admit guilt for their “disease” and made to accept blame for their circumstances.

True or False

7. Individuals suffering from PTSD can respond to triggers that will cause the traumatic experience to be re-experienced, even though it may have happened years earlier.

True or False

8. PTSD suffers often experience dissociation which is a disconnection between the traumatic events and the meaning associated with those events and Interferes with ability to verbalize the events and their meaning.

True or False

9. PTSD is easily overcome and healing is rapid. True or False

10. Healing requires a strong support network trusted people to support the trauma victim and to combat the dehumanizing effect of trauma.

True or False