Intervening with the Effects of Stress and Trauma

Quiz for CEUs for LEP/LCSW/LMFT/LPCC

CPD for NCSPs

Online Workshop: Stress, Trauma and the Brain

Regalena Melrose, Ph.D., instructor

To take this quiz: Please download and save this in your computer as a Microsoft Word document. Please bold or otherwise highlight your answers. Save your answers and email the document as an attachment to:

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1.  The triune brain has three parts: the neocortex, limbic or mid-brain, and the hippocampus.

True False

2.  The amygdala acts like a smoke screen, detecting threat in milliseconds, sending messages to both the neocortex and brain stem/animal brain.

True False

3.  The “kindling effect” of the amygdala is when the amygdala turns on with stress or trauma and eventually fails to turn off, keeping the neocortex activated and the brain stem/animal brain de-activated.

True False

4.  The last 20 years of neuroscience has quadrupled what we learned about the brain in the first 130 years of study, due largely in part to the development and use of MRIs.

True False

5.  Self-regulation is mediated by both the central and autonomic nervous systems.

True False

6.  The autonomic nervous system is comprised of two branches: sympathetic and limbic.

True False

7.  The four most important resources offering relief to the sympathetic branch of the nervous system include: safety, community, competence, and anger management.

True False

8.  Some of the most effective interventions with the effects of stress and trauma include various forms of talk therapy.

True False

9.  Sensory awareness plays a vital role in the development of the following capacities: reading, adaptive behavior, and empathy.

True False

10.  The neuroscience points to “nonspecific” intervention as most important to the challenges of educators today: creating the conditions within which both learning and adaptive behavior are possible.

True False

3 hours/units