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Trauma Reaction Cards Checklist: Behavior Reactions

This document contains a checklist of potential behavioral, body, feeling, and thinking reactions that clients may experience after experiencing trauma. The checklist is separated into four categories: behavioral reactions, body reactions, feelings reactions, and brain and thinking reactions. It includes common trauma responses such as hitting, arguing, nightmares, feeling guilty or ashamed, having flashbacks or memories of the traumatic event, and negative thoughts about safety and the future. The checklist is intended to help identify a client's trauma responses to help with treatment.

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Trauma Reaction Cards Checklist: Behavior Reactions

This document contains a checklist of potential behavioral, body, feeling, and thinking reactions that clients may experience after experiencing trauma. The checklist is separated into four categories: behavioral reactions, body reactions, feelings reactions, and brain and thinking reactions. It includes common trauma responses such as hitting, arguing, nightmares, feeling guilty or ashamed, having flashbacks or memories of the traumatic event, and negative thoughts about safety and the future. The checklist is intended to help identify a client's trauma responses to help with treatment.

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Trauma Reaction Cards Checklist

Client Name:_______________________ Date:______________________


Behavior Reactions
 Hitting  Arguing  Not Listening /Defiance
 Fighting  Cursing  Breaking Things
 Running away  Crying  Outbursts of anger
 School Problems  Lying  Bathroom Problems
 Avoiding people, places,  Acting younger than you are  Isolating yourself from others
things, or sensations related to  Unsafe sexual practices  Trying to end your life
the trauma  Stealing  Trouble with eating
 Hurting your own body  Tantrums  Using drugs/alcohol/cigarettes
 Taking out your feelings on  Difficulty separating from  Trouble getting along with
people you care about caregivers others
 Trusting others too quickly/ _________________________ _________________________
Inappropriate boundaries  

Body Reactions
 Feeling like you are re-  Being on guard or constantly  Feeling disconnected from
experiencing the trauma alert your body
 Jumpy or Easily Startled  Trouble with eating  Hyperactive
 Body Feeling Shaky  Feeling short of breath  Nightmares
 Trouble with sleep  Bellyaches/Nausea  Headaches
 Low energy  Body Feeling of Panic _________________________
 Body or muscles tense  

Feelings Reactions
 Guilty  Having worries  Sad
 Angry  Nervous/anxious  Moody/Irritable
 Ashamed  Depressed  Helpless
 Numb  Betrayed  Hopeless about Future
 Rejected  Easily Upset  Not caring about others
 Not enjoying the things used to  Feeling different from others  Embarrassed
  

Brain & Thinking Reactions


 “Everyone is unsafe”  Not trusting others  “It’s my fault” or blaming self
 “The world is a bad place”  “I am bad”  Memories/Flashbacks
 Difficulty Concentrating/  Forgetting parts of the  Tring to keep feelings/
Focusing trauma thoughts of trauma out of head
 Thinking nothing good will ever  Thinking about the safety of Thoughts about what
happen loved ones happened pop into you head
 Thinking about the trauma  Thinking about dying/  Pictures of what happen pop
often wanting to die into your head
  

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Trauma Reaction Cards Checklist by Beth Richey, LCSW. PATENT PENDING. All rights reserved.

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