CHAPTER 12: TRAUMA- AND STRESSOR-RELATED DISORDERS

Which of the following would qualify as physical neglect?

• Delay in seeking health care

• Supervision from the next room

• Refusing to allow an adolescent to see friends

• Letting a teenager come home from school alone

Delay in seeking health care

Children with histories of __________ have the most severe and wide-ranging problems in school and interpersonal adjustment.

• mental illness

• learning disabilities

• physical disabilities

• abuse and neglect

abuse and neglect

Children who experience chronic stress tend to develop ____, a progressive wear and tear on biological systems.

• regulatory disinhibition

• obsessive–compulsive disorder

• oppositional defiance

• allostatic load

Allostatic load:

Aa concept used to describe this progressive “wear and tear” on biological systems due to the effects of chronic stress.

Which of the following is not characteristic of parents who maltreat their children?

• Unfamiliarity of the parenting role

• Information-processing disturbances

• Self-discipline and patience

• Unfamiliarity of developmentally appropriate expectations for children

Self-discipline and patience

The highest incidence of maltreatment in the United States is due to ____ cases.

• physical abuse

• sexual abuse

• neglect

• emotional abuse

Neglect

Maltreatment is least likely to be associated with ____.

• reduced financial status

• marital conflict

• parental resilience

• family stress

Parental Resilience

Physically abused children tend to have peer relationships marked by ____.

• friendliness and interest

• avoidance and withdrawal

• withdrawal and aggression

• dependency and clinginess

Withdrawal and Aggresion

____ involves a combination of exposure therapy and skill building to allow the individual to practice more effective ways of coping with intrusive memories and emotions.

• Trauma-focused cognitive–behavioral therapy

• Brief counseling

• Grief and trauma intervention for children

• Psychological first aid

Trauma-focused cognitive–behavioral therapy:

A form of exposure therapy that incorporates elements of cognitive-behavioral, attachment, humanistic, empowerment, and family therapy models.

Many of the acute symptoms of sexual abuse resemble children’s common reactions to ____.

• loss of a parent

• fatigue

• illness

• stress

Stress: such as fears, increased anger, anxiety, fatigue, depression, passivity, difficulties focusing and sustaining attention, and withdrawal from usual activities.

Maltreated children may experience fewer negative outcomes if they ____.

• have an external locus of control

• can prosecute the offending parent

• are immediately removed from the home

• have a positive self-esteem and sense of self

have a positive self-esteem and sense of self