3. How Clients Override and Leave the Window of Tolerance

Module Three Quiz

Please complete the following quiz. Answers are either multiple choice or True/False. You will be shown incorrect answers and be able to retake the quiz if necessary. You will need 70% to pass each module. You may go back any time before finishing the quiz and change your answers. (The first question -- your name -- doesn't count!) . If you do not pass the quiz, please go back to the original link and begin again.

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* 1. Please type in your name

Name

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* 2. The “Faux Window” can show up as:

Competency with or without satisfaction

Smiling or laughing when in pain

Working while exhausted

Compulsive behavior

All of the above

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* 3. “Overriding” refers to:

a. Speaking over someone else to make your point

b. Ignoring or pushing past discomfort to try to keep functioning

c. Exceeding one’s optimal resiliency and trying to stay engaged, without realizing it.

d. Both b and c.

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* 4. Clients have greater difficulty truly identifying their own needs and wants when they’ve learned to override well.

True

False

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* 5. It is helpful to track signs that your client may be overriding because:

Effective therapy is compromised if your client is overriding, because some of their focus and energy is invested in not noticing something.

Competency can mask a “faux” window experience and this may compromise the therapy

If the therapist misses the overriding, they will assume the client has a greater resiliency in that moment than they actually have

All of the above are true.

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* 6. Overriding can show up as:

a. Over-working and over-eating

b. A calm nervous system

c. Fantasy, drugs and alcohol,

d. Rituals and obsessions

e. A sense of ease and confidence

f. a, c and d

g. a, c and e

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* 7. Developmental trauma often results in chronic overrides. True or False?

True

False