Responses To Threat: Freeze, Appease, Flight, Fight
The Responses To Threat: Freeze, Appease, Fight, Flight information handout is designed to give clients essential information about common responses to threat.
Responses To Threat: Freeze, Appease, Flight, Fight
This Responses To Threat tool will help you understand the automatic ways people react to danger, like freezing, appeasing, fighting, or running away. This can help you make sense of your own responses to threatening situations.
Overview
Human beings are programmed to respond automatically in a variety of ways to a threat including freezing, escaping, and dissociation. Traumatized individuals often report considerable distress and self-criticism about these normal, natural, and involuntary responses. The Responses To Threat: Freeze, Appease, Fight, Flight information handout is designed to help you share this essential information with your clients.
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