PTSD in the classroom

PTSD stands for...

• Pre-Terminal Situation Disorder

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Post Traumatic Situation Disorder

• Pre-Tactile Stress Disorder

What are the ways you can create a supportive classroom environment for those with PTSD?

• Collaborate with the student and their parents

• Allocate a safe space away from the class

• Inform everyone in the class of their triggers

• All of the above

Those diagnosed with PTSD are at a higher risk of developing another mental illness.

• True

• False

It is enough to only give trigger warnings verbally.

• True

• False

Exposure to triggers can be part of a healthy healing process for someone with PTSD.

• True

• False

How might you help a student work through an attack?

• Leave them alone, give them space!

• Advise them to follow their therapist's advice

• Surround them with their friends

• Work through breathing and ensure them that they are safe

• All of the above

Side effects of PTSD include...

• Self-focused negativity and blame

• Feeling alienated / isolated

• Lack of interest in achievement

• All of the above

ILPs or EHCPs will always identify and tell you how to deal with students in your class with PTSD.

• True

• False

Lack of concentration is a side effect of PTSD.

• True

• False

As long as you have given appropriate trigger warnings, you are not responsible for how a student with PTSD responds to lesson content.

• True

• False