Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, part of Georgetown University’s Thrive Center

Pretest

This pretest will help you assess what you already know about this topic. You can take it multiple times to inform your learning. The questions refer to the age at which children typically perform each skill.

This short quiz gets you thinking about the core issues and checks what you already know about this topic.

  1. Trauma can be induced by a single threatening event or ongoing, negative conditions.

  2. The two types of trauma diagnoses include;

  3. There are only several distinct types of traumatic experiences including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect.

  4. Trauma is a common experience for EHS/HS children; research shows that many have experienced at least __ traumatic experience(s) in their lives.

  5. A stress response refers to a person’s internal physical reactions to stress such as an increased heart rate and rapid breathing.

  6. A child's ability to adapt and cope in the face of trauma are determined by:

  7. Trauma only affects children’s emotional development.

  8. Early childhood mental health consultants can help to address the impact of trauma in young children by;