7. The Seven Phases of the Cycle of Experience

Module Seven 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. Sometimes clients need assistance getting “back into the window” from a hypo-aroused state. Things that might be useful include:

a. Ask them to notice details from their own senses, like vision and hearing

b. Essential Oils

c. An interactive exercise like tossing a koosh ball, which requires their presence

d. Slowing things down

e. All of the above

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* 3. When clients cannot discern “discomfort from danger:”

a. They can easily go out of the WoT as if they are truly in physical danger when they are not

b. They disconnect from their own process, making it hard to sustain awareness and fully reprocess traumatic events.

c. Their nervous system can create a high Sympathetic reaction or Dorsal Vagal reaction before any conscious awareness.

d. They are likely to go out of the WoT again, after becoming oriented.

e. A and C

f. All of the above

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* 4. When you ask your clients about specific sensations it helps:

a. Deflect them from the story

b. Give you data about whether or not they can give specific answers, and are in the WoT

c. Connect them with their sensory experiences and be more present

d. B and C

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* 5. People who chronically make poor decisions may be disconnecting at “sensation" or at "awareness” (before “mobilization/discernment”) in the Cycle of Experience. T/F?

True

False

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* 6. In the Cycle of Experience, which one is not a possible sign of blocking awareness

a. Client says, “I don’t know” before reflecting.

b. Client cannot pay attention or seems distracted

c. Client is clearly describing a pain in their stomach

d. Client loses their visual focus

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* 7. Which of the following are examples of the therapist pushing for “action” prematurely?

a. The client is afraid to speak up, and the therapist tries “assertiveness training.”

b. A client begins to raise their arm in a protective move, then stops at their waist. The therapist instructs the client to “finish the move” by raising their arm all the way over their head.

c. A client starts to feel angry and feels a scream begins to arise. Their throat tightens, and they can’t speak. The therapist encourages the client to scream.

d. All of the above

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* 8. What does the Cycle of Experience help you track?

a .The dynamics of how your clients flow, and how they disconnect from themselves.

b. The degree to which your client is able to hold “sustained awareness.” This helps guide you to how slowly to pace the work to facilitate their ability to stay present.

c. When you see your client disconnecting, you can more clearly reflect the context of the disconnection - timing, story, emotion, body, beliefs - and how they do it - minimize self, blame self or others, lose focus, dissociate, deflect, etc.

d. Your client’s ability to develop a solid sense of their wants and needs, or if they take action that is more impulsive and less internally supported

All of the above

b and c only

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* 9. Where do people most commonly disconnect on the Cycle of Experience?

Between “closure” and “withdrawal”

At “sensation” and/or “awareness”

During “action”

Just after “mobilization/discernment”

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* 10. What happens if the therapist encourages a client into an “action” before “mobilization,” or good discernment have developed?

a. The client will have to override their own caution/inability in order to perform the action.

b. The therapy will skip over the dilemma of having some desire, along with the impulse to “not act.”

c. It will be difficult for the client to fully engage in the action, or to integrate the experience. They may get “relief,” but no “resolution.”

d. All of the above