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Cultural Competence and Humility In the Trauma-Aware Therapist - Test
by Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP

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1. To manage countertransference, the trauma-aware therapist should: Help
Attempt to avoid countertransferential responses, since trauma survivors are hypersensitive to therapist responses.
Attempt to embrace the reality of her/his countertransferential responses.
Bring her/his countertransference material into the session and make clients aware of it in the service of greater genuineness and transparency.
Be attuned to feeling overwhelmed, as the material being discussed by trauma survivors is powerful.
2. Which of the following are common countertransference responses to trauma? Help
Encouraging clients not to go into the details of their trauma stories
Using therapist objectivity as a distancing strategy
Neither of the above: each of these is one appropriate therapeutic response
Both 1 and 2
3. When a client tells a trauma story with details that seem to be fantastical or impossible, the best therapeutic response is: Help
Listening to the themes of the story rather than focusing on the content.
Validating the facts of the story and affirming that you believe the client.
Disabusing the client of the reality of the story so as to protect against false memories being formed.
Refer the client for an evaluation for antipsychotic medication.
4. Which of the following is an important step that therapists can take to reduce the risk of harmful countertransference errors with trauma survivors? Help
Avoid working with clients who have trauma histories similar to that of the therapist.
Use experiences of guilt and shame to inform the therapist of areas that the therapist should be working on in her/his own therapy.
Practice compassion with self, so that it is possible to offer repairs of ruptures with clients.
Be especially cautious when making interpretations with trauma survivors clients, so as not to unintentionally enact the role of Persecutor.
5. Vicarious Traumatization (VT) is: Help
Evidence that the therapist has his own unaddressed trauma history.
An expectable consequence of empathic connection with trauma survivors.
Another name for secondary PTSD.
Avoidable if the therapist takes excellent care of her/himself.
6. Vicarious Traumatization (VT) is experienced: Help
Differently for each therapist depending on his identities.
Globally, rather than in relationship to a specific client.
In both work and personal life.
All of the above
7. Dynamics about boundaries with trauma survivor clients: Help
Are no different in meaning than to clients who have never experienced trauma.
Must be clear and integrated into the rest of the psychotherapy relationship.
Need to be more strongly enforced given that many of them have had boundary violations and will push on therapist boundaries.
Must be flexible, so that clients do not see the "rules" as more important than they themselves are.
8. The MOST important element of self- care for therapists working with trauma survivors is: Help
The inclusion of playful activities so as to balance the pain of hearing about trauma in their work.
Giving the therapist as much distance as possible from trauma topics when not at work.
Not an ethical obligation, but rather a good choice for a therapist to make.
Giving the therapist skills to remain hopeful and avoid sinking into the trance of despair.
9. Boundary crossings in therapy with trauma survivors: Help
Must be done with care and thought, within the therapeutic frame.
Must always be avoided, as they are likely to be trauma reenactments.
Are evidence that the therapist is enacting hostile countertransference against the client.
Are usually ethics violations.
10. The position of trauma reenactment that has been added to the Karpman drama triangle for a better understanding of trauma dynamics in therapy is: Help
Rescuer.
Bystander.
Perpetrator.
Confuser.
11. A culturally competent therapist: Help
Always refers clients out when they are from a group with which s/he is unfamiliar.
Avoids having bias of any kind.
Has a framework for understanding difference rather than algorithms for groups.
Will speak the same language as her/his client.
12. It is more appropriate to speak of "target" and "agent" groups because: Help
These more accurately describe the position of a group in a social hierarchy.
These terms remind therapists of how their clients have been targeted.
Clients will feel more understood.
Terminology is less important than really understanding how a person has been harmed.
13. Therapists need to deploy their cultural competence skills with: Help
Clients of color.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered clients.
Immigrants.
All clients.
14. Aversive bias is: Help
Most common among people who are not highly educated.
So common that it is found in around 85% of people studied.
Less common among working class individuals due to their exposures to people from all social groups.
A problem for therapists attempting to be culturally competent.
15. According to Nathanson, the four most common responses to shame are: Help
Withdrawing or distancing from the source of the shame, merging with the source of the shame, minimizing one's own behavior, guilt.
Attacking the source of the shame, minimizing one's own behavior, pathologizing the source of the shame, anger.
Withdrawing or distancing from the source of the shame, attacking the self for being shameful, attacking the source of the shame, denial.
Denial, premature self-forgiveness, avoiding possible opportunities to feel shame, confusion.
16. Which of the following concepts is not included in the ADDRESSING model? Help
Indigenous heritage
Relationship status
Heterosexual identity
All of the above are included
17. Cultural competence is relevant to trauma-informed practice because: Help
Trauma is its own component of identity.
Some cultures have a trauma history that a therapist should understand and appreciate.
A culturally competent therapist is less likely to make certain kinds of countertransference errors.
All of the above
18. Multiple and intersecting identities are: Help
Evidence that a person has experienced a trauma.
Present mostly in people who are racially mixed.
Present in every person's identity development.
Evidence of a dissociative process.

 

 

 
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