TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE EXAM
1 (Units 1-4) 2025 WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is a traumatic event? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A traumatic event can involve a single
experience, or enduring repeated events that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to
cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved in that experience
What is trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Trauma is a unique individual experience of an event
or enduring conditions in which the individual's ability to integrate his/her emotional
experience is overwhelmed and the individual experiences (either objectively or subjectively) a
threat to his/her life, bodily integrity or that of a caregiver or family
What does modern trauma theory conceptualize? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Modern trauma
theory conceptualizes trauma and traumatic responses as occurring along a continuum in terms
of severity and it's not the event that determines whether it's a traumatic to someone but
rather the individual's experience of the event and the meaning they make it
What are the 5 types of trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Single incident trauma
2. Complex or repetitive trauma
3. Developmental trauma
4. Intergenerational trauma
5. Historical trauma
What is single incident trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A single event such as accident or
assault - an individual experience
, What is complex or repetitive trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Chronic, ongoing trauma such as
physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence - relationship based, can vary in severity
What is developmental trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Early life trauma of a chronic nature
that may involve child's care giving system
What is intergenerational trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Trauma impacts are essentially
"passed down" from one generation to the next ie. passed down by parents, not necessarily
over own experience - within a family system
What is historical trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Cumulative "wounding" over the lifespan
from massive group trauma. Collective trauma, often a particular cultural group
- a share experience ie residential schools
ACE study: purpose, participants and method - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The Adverse Childhood
Events Study
- explored relationship between trauma and health issues
- 17000 participants were asked about 10 types of childhood trauma
with 5 personal risk factors
1) physical 2) sexual 3) emotional abuse 4) physical and 5) emotional neglect
and 5 family member factors
6) domestic violence towards mother 7) household mental illness 9) parental separation/divorce
10) incarceration of the household member
ACE study: findings and results - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- more than half reported at least one
and 1/4 reported 2 categories of childhood exposure
- most prevalent factor was substance abuse in the household
- number of ACEs increased = increase in adult risk factors ie. smoking, alcohol & drug abuse
and severe obesity
1 (Units 1-4) 2025 WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is a traumatic event? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A traumatic event can involve a single
experience, or enduring repeated events that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to
cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved in that experience
What is trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Trauma is a unique individual experience of an event
or enduring conditions in which the individual's ability to integrate his/her emotional
experience is overwhelmed and the individual experiences (either objectively or subjectively) a
threat to his/her life, bodily integrity or that of a caregiver or family
What does modern trauma theory conceptualize? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Modern trauma
theory conceptualizes trauma and traumatic responses as occurring along a continuum in terms
of severity and it's not the event that determines whether it's a traumatic to someone but
rather the individual's experience of the event and the meaning they make it
What are the 5 types of trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Single incident trauma
2. Complex or repetitive trauma
3. Developmental trauma
4. Intergenerational trauma
5. Historical trauma
What is single incident trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A single event such as accident or
assault - an individual experience
, What is complex or repetitive trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Chronic, ongoing trauma such as
physical or sexual abuse, domestic violence - relationship based, can vary in severity
What is developmental trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Early life trauma of a chronic nature
that may involve child's care giving system
What is intergenerational trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Trauma impacts are essentially
"passed down" from one generation to the next ie. passed down by parents, not necessarily
over own experience - within a family system
What is historical trauma? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Cumulative "wounding" over the lifespan
from massive group trauma. Collective trauma, often a particular cultural group
- a share experience ie residential schools
ACE study: purpose, participants and method - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The Adverse Childhood
Events Study
- explored relationship between trauma and health issues
- 17000 participants were asked about 10 types of childhood trauma
with 5 personal risk factors
1) physical 2) sexual 3) emotional abuse 4) physical and 5) emotional neglect
and 5 family member factors
6) domestic violence towards mother 7) household mental illness 9) parental separation/divorce
10) incarceration of the household member
ACE study: findings and results - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- more than half reported at least one
and 1/4 reported 2 categories of childhood exposure
- most prevalent factor was substance abuse in the household
- number of ACEs increased = increase in adult risk factors ie. smoking, alcohol & drug abuse
and severe obesity
