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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

2. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?

3. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

4. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

5. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who developed the Polyvagal Theory and for which academic institution did he work at the time?

2. What is Van der Kolk's purpose for including a story about Tom's refusal to take his prescribed medication?

3. What is the meaning of the term "neuroception"?

4. What aspect of the assessment Van der Kolk gave to Noam intrigued Van der Kolk the most and why?

5. What specific role does the right brain perform in the aftermath of trauma?

6. Which of Tom's symptoms did Van der Kolk decide to actively treat and why?

7. What development in the early 1990s revolutionized our understanding of the way the human brain processes information?

8. What major transition in the world of psychiatry did Van der Kolk get to witness, as described in Chapter 2, "Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain"?

9. What does Van der Kolk mean when he says he hopes that the book serves as not only a guide, but as an invitation?

10. What relationship does Van der Kolk identify between trauma and sensory experiences?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Van der Kolk's message regarding the difference between awareness and action and how does Van der Kolk get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Van der Kolk’s book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. What message is Van der Kolk sending about these two themes over the course of the text?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the theme of hope within The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. What is Van der Kolk’s message regarding hope and how do you know?

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