Glossary
Absenteeism - Frequent absences from work that are not due to valid reasons.
ACE - Potentially traumatic events that occur in one's childhood such as: emotional, verbal, or physical abuse, neglect, witnessing the death of a loved one, having a parent with a substance use disorder, or witnessing violence, among other events.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - Events that occur in childhood that are potentially traumatic to the individual.
Adverse community factors - Community experiences such as high rates of violence, poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, and unemployment, easy access to drugs that can impact wellbeing.
Antecedents - Anything that happens before a behavior. Antecedents make behaviors more or less likely to occur.
Behavior - is an action performed by an individual that can be observed objectively and measured by an onlooker.
Big T (or Big Trauma) - Universally known traumas such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction.
Commands - Instructions that are specific and stated directly to tell a child and adult what you want them to accomplish.
Consequences - Anything that happens immediately after a behavior occurs. Consequences either make a behavior more or less likely to occur again.
Conventional thinking - Assumes problematic behaviors result from a person being "bad,' and they must be punished.
Cumulative Trauma - Trauma that is prolonged and accumulated over time.
Expectations - What one anticipates will happen if one behaves in a certain way.
Grounding - The direct contact of the body or part of the body with something that provides support in the present moment.
Grounding - Strategies that can help a person center themselves to cope with emotion and traumatic experiences.
Imitation - Using an individual's behavior as a model.
Languishing - A state of low well - being. Languishing states have low levels of emotional, social and psychological well - being indicators.
Little T (or little trauma) - Trauma that can be individualized and not a collective agreement. For example, losing a pet or bullying can be more traumatic for some and not for others.
Loss of privileges - Withholding a reward when a child exhibits negative behavior.
Modeling - Modeling occurs when an individual provides an example of a behavior that an observer can imitate or copy. Modeling can also occur inadvertently. For example, children watch how others behave. If they like the outcome, they will imitate the behavior.
Motivation - Motivation determines if a person will want to imitate a modeled behavior.
Negative Punishment - Decreases the likelihood the behavior will occur again with the removal of something.
Negative Reinforcement - Negative reinforcement involves the removal of something that discourages the behavior from occurring again.
Observation - Seeing the behaviors of others.
Peer Support - Using one's experiences and strengths to support another person.
Planned Ignoring - Not giving attention to negative behavior.
Planning Ahead - Taking time to think about different behavioral stages/alternative solutions that will promote positive behavior.
Positive Attending - Reinforcing positive behavior.
Positive Reinforcement - Positive reinforcement involves the addition of something that increases the likelihood the behavior will occur again.
Positive Punishment - Decreases the likelihood the behavior will occur again with the addition of a consequence.
Protective factors - Social, cultural, biological, psychological, and economic factors that positively affect one's resilience or ability to persevere in aversive situations.
Psychosocial - How an individual's psychological and behavioral factors intertwine with social, community and cultural factors.
Psychotherapy - The use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome problems.
Punishment - Punishment is a consequence that follows a behavior that decreases the probability that the person will repeat the behavior. Punishment often takes the form of loss of privileges or a timeout from fun activities.
Recovery - A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self - directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. The four major dimensions that support a life in recovery are overcoming or managing one's diseases or symptoms, having a stable and safe place to live, engaging in meaningful daily activities, and developing relationships and social networks.
Reinforcement - Reinforcement is a consequence that follows a behavior that may either increase or decrease the likelihood that the person will repeat the behavior. Reinforcement can be negative or positive.
Resiliency - An individual's and community's ability to persevere in aversive situations, live fully and thrive.
Resiliency Pause Questions -
Resiliency - informed Thinking - The action of sharing skills of well - being to reduce the physiological and emotional toll of traumatic experiences.
Resourcing/Resource Intensification - Strengthens the "felt sense" of the resource and overrides attention that automatically goes to unpleasant sensations.
Risk Factors - Social, cultural, biological, psychological, and economic factors that negatively affect one's resilience or ability to persevere in aversive situations.
Safety - Creating a safe psychical and social - emotional environment.
Self - Care - Taking the time to do things that help you live well and improve both your physical and mental health.
Self - efficacy - In psychology, self - efficacy is an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach goals.
Setting - The environment that a child is in.
Social Learning Perspective/Theory - Theory created by Albert Bandura that says learning occurs through observations of other's behaviors in one's social environment (modeling) and that these behaviors are then imitated based on the perceived reward or punishment of those actions.
Symbolic Ideas - This type of learning occurs when behaviors are demonstrated through books, movies, television, or online media, such as Facebook, TikTok, or other online sites.
Systemic empathy - an empathetic attitude
Time out - When a child is removed from the environment where the negative behavior has occurred for a specific amount of time.
Toxic Stress - Stress that occurs constantly or chronically, can impact multiple aspects of one's life, and can impair functioning.
Tracking - Noticing or paying attention to what is happening insider your body at the present moment.
Transitional Warnings - Letting your child know that an activity is about to end and preparing them to perform another activity.
Trauma - an exceptional experience in which powerful and dangerous events overwhelm a person's ability to cope
Trauma-informed Approaches - approaches to care shift the focus from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"
Trauma-informed Practice - The recognition of the existence and prevalence of trauma
Trauma-informed Thinking - thinking that brings awareness to the need to be sensitive to what happened to a person and that challenging behaviors may result from their traumatic experiences.
Traumatic experiences - de-stressing events that cause psychological or physical harm to a person.
Trustworthiness - Being reliable, honest, and truthful in one's actions and words.
Verbal Instructions - Verbal instruction involves one hearing a description of behavior and then adjusting their behavior based on that description.
When/Thens - Commands formed to instruct the child that when they accomplish a task, the result is that they will receive a positive award.
