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PSI EXAM NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE ALL 100 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+ (BRAND
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- What approach is exemplified by being aware of what we and
our clients bring into the room?
ANSWER: Trauma-Informed Care
- What does Trauma-Informed Care highlight over symptoms
and what does it emphasize over pathology?
ANSWER: Highlights adaptation over symptoms and
resilience over pathology
- Through what type of lens does a Trauma-Informed approach
view trauma?
ANSWER: An ecological and cultural lens, recognizing that
context plays a significant role in how individuals perceive and process traumatic events, whether acute or chronic
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- What are some key components of Trauma-Informed Care in
practice?
ANSWER: Safety, Choice, Collaboration, Trustworthiness,
Empowerment
- What does Trauma-Informed Care look like in practice?
ANSWER: Remaining vigilant in anticipating and avoiding
institutional processes and individual practices that are likely to retraumatize individuals who already have histories of trauma
- What is an example of upholding the importance of consumer
participation in the development, delivery, and evaluation of services?
ANSWER: Trauma-Informed Care
- What are some tools used in Trauma-Informed Care?
ANSWER: Listen and validate resilience, Education and
Training, Understand trauma and its impact, Assessments (of self and clinical environment), Safety First Mentality (promote safety, lead by example), Ensuring Cultural Humility,
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Supporting Consumer Control, Choice, and Autonomy, Sharing Power and Governance
- What are examples of non-Trauma-Informed approaches?
ANSWER: Power over, "You can’t change," Judging, "People
need fixing first," Operate from the dominant culture, "People are out to get you," Right/wrong, Helping, "You are crazy," Compliance/obedience, Need-to-know basis for info, Presenting issue, Us and them, Labels pathology, Fear-based, "I’m here to fix you," Didactic, "People make bad choices," Behavior viewed as problem, "What’s wrong with you," Blame/shame, Goal is to do things the right way, Prescriptive, "People are bad," Consider only research and evidence
- What are examples of Trauma-Informed Care approaches?
ANSWER: Power with, "Your brain is plastic," Observing,
"People need safety first," Cultural humility, "People can live up to the trust you give them," Multiple viewpoints, Learning, "It makes sense," Empowerment/collaboration, Transparency and predictability, Whole person and history, "We are all in this together," Behavior as communication, Empathy-based, Support healing, Participatory, "People who feel unsafe do unsafe things," Behavior viewed as solution, "What happened to you,"
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Respect, Goal is to connect, Choice, "People are doing the best they can," Consider also lived experience
- Can the intake interview take several sessions to gather
information needed to diagnose and develop a treatment plan?
ANSWER: Yes, it can take several sessions
- What is critical during the intake interview process?
ANSWER: Connecting and creating a trusted space to assess
history
- How might an intake interview be conducted with a mother?
ANSWER: May choose to meet with the mother alone at first
and then collect information from collateral supports, using screening tools/questionnaires and demographic inquiry
- In an intake interview assessing pregnancy history, what
does asking "How many times have you been pregnant?" evaluate?