TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
The TCI System helps Organizations -
correct answer ✅Prevent Crises. De-escalate potential crises,
Manage acute Physical behavior, Reduce potential and actual injury
to children and staff, Teach children adaptive coping skills, Develop
a learning organization.
Developmental Relationships -
correct answer ✅are characterized by attachment, reciprocity,
progressive complexity, and balance of power.
Theory of Change -
correct answer ✅Identifies roles and tasks as well as desired
practice at all levels of the organization that, when implemented
create a consistent approach to crisis prevention and management
in a nurturing, safe, and predictable environment.
What are the six domains in TCI? -
correct answer ✅1. Leadership and program support
2. Child and family inclusions
3. Clinical participation
4. Supervision and post-crisis response,
5. Training and competency standards, and
,TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
6. Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedback
What are the six modules of TCI? -
correct answer ✅1. Crisis Prevention: Creating a Safe Place for
Learning
2. Crisis as Opportunity
3. De-Escalating the Crisis
4. Managing the Crisis
5. Recovery
6. Safety Interventions
A Trauma-informed organization -
correct answer ✅Supports trauma-informed care through:
Policies
Procedures
Practices
A Trauma -Informed Organization Ensures that Staff -
correct answer ✅Understand- Understand what trauma is and
how it impacts everyone in the system.
,TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
Recognize- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past and
present trauma.
Respond- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
Developmental Relationships are characterized by -
correct answer ✅Attachment
Reciprocity
Progressive Complexity
Balance of Power
What is the definition of Crisis? -
correct answer ✅Is an upset in a steady or normal state.
Reactive Aggression -
correct answer ✅When there is a loss of ability to regulate
emotions and emotions instead of reason drive the child's actions.
Proactive Aggression -
correct answer ✅Is planned and is used to obtain something;
reason and the thinking brain dominate not emotions.
, TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
What is the fight, flight, or Freeze response -
correct answer ✅It is the stress response
What can trigger a stress response? -
correct answer ✅A smell, thought, or perceived danger
What is the Therapeutic Milieu? -
correct answer ✅The combinations of people, emotions, attitude,
and objects that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care,
and accountability.
What are the spaces in the Therapeutic Milieu -
correct answer ✅Ideological, Physical, Cultural, Social, Emotional
What are setting conditions? -
correct answer ✅Anything that makes challenging behavior or
traumatic stress responses make or less likely to occur.
Ideological Space -
correct answer ✅1. Communicates a philosophy of care
2. Supports developmentally appropriate practice.
& Answers
The TCI System helps Organizations -
correct answer ✅Prevent Crises. De-escalate potential crises,
Manage acute Physical behavior, Reduce potential and actual injury
to children and staff, Teach children adaptive coping skills, Develop
a learning organization.
Developmental Relationships -
correct answer ✅are characterized by attachment, reciprocity,
progressive complexity, and balance of power.
Theory of Change -
correct answer ✅Identifies roles and tasks as well as desired
practice at all levels of the organization that, when implemented
create a consistent approach to crisis prevention and management
in a nurturing, safe, and predictable environment.
What are the six domains in TCI? -
correct answer ✅1. Leadership and program support
2. Child and family inclusions
3. Clinical participation
4. Supervision and post-crisis response,
5. Training and competency standards, and
,TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
6. Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedback
What are the six modules of TCI? -
correct answer ✅1. Crisis Prevention: Creating a Safe Place for
Learning
2. Crisis as Opportunity
3. De-Escalating the Crisis
4. Managing the Crisis
5. Recovery
6. Safety Interventions
A Trauma-informed organization -
correct answer ✅Supports trauma-informed care through:
Policies
Procedures
Practices
A Trauma -Informed Organization Ensures that Staff -
correct answer ✅Understand- Understand what trauma is and
how it impacts everyone in the system.
,TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
Recognize- Recognize behaviors and patterns that reflect past and
present trauma.
Respond- Respond in ways that avoid re-traumatization
Developmental Relationships are characterized by -
correct answer ✅Attachment
Reciprocity
Progressive Complexity
Balance of Power
What is the definition of Crisis? -
correct answer ✅Is an upset in a steady or normal state.
Reactive Aggression -
correct answer ✅When there is a loss of ability to regulate
emotions and emotions instead of reason drive the child's actions.
Proactive Aggression -
correct answer ✅Is planned and is used to obtain something;
reason and the thinking brain dominate not emotions.
, TCI Seventh Edition Exam Questions
& Answers
What is the fight, flight, or Freeze response -
correct answer ✅It is the stress response
What can trigger a stress response? -
correct answer ✅A smell, thought, or perceived danger
What is the Therapeutic Milieu? -
correct answer ✅The combinations of people, emotions, attitude,
and objects that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care,
and accountability.
What are the spaces in the Therapeutic Milieu -
correct answer ✅Ideological, Physical, Cultural, Social, Emotional
What are setting conditions? -
correct answer ✅Anything that makes challenging behavior or
traumatic stress responses make or less likely to occur.
Ideological Space -
correct answer ✅1. Communicates a philosophy of care
2. Supports developmentally appropriate practice.
