Medical Whistleblower training on Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress, a quick multiple choice survey to assess basic knowledge of PTSD.

1. Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress
Survey Test of Learning Objectives
Answers available from MedicalWhistleblower@gmail.com
True or False:
1. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an emotional and physiological response to True 
a trauma severe enough to be overwhelming and that alters the life those or
who experience it. False 
2. Any human being has the potential to develop PTSD because the cause True 
external and not resulting from the individual’s personality. or
False 
3. Secondary trauma can occur due to lack of support from friends, family, and True 
co-workers resulting in a victim’s lack of trust, isolation from society, and a or
fear of feeling. False 
4. Symptoms of PTSD include intrusive recollections, nightmares, emotional True 
(somatic) memories, acting out/reliving trauma, reenactment play, or
perceptual illusions, dissociation, and problems with memory retrieval. False 
5. Crime survivors suffering from PTSD can feel shameful, guilty, abandoned, True 
vulnerable, hopeless and helpless and loose interest in things they used to or
enjoy. False 
6. PTSD suffers should be forced to admit guilt for their “disease” and made to True 
accept blame for their circumstances. or
False 
7. Individuals suffering from PTSD can respond to triggers that will cause the True 
traumatic experience to be re-experienced, even though it may have or
happened years earlier. False 
8. PTSD suffers often experience dissociation which is a disconnection between True 
the traumatic events and the meaning associated with those events and or
Interferes with ability to verbalize the events and their meaning. False 
9. PTSD is easily overcome and healing is rapid. True 
or
False 
10. Healing requires a strong support network trusted people to support the True 
trauma victim and to combat the dehumanizing effect of trauma. or
False 
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