Across
- 3. attempt to avoid distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings as well as external reminders (conversations about event)
- 8. threatening thoughts that constantly occur to a person without control that can create anxiety and fear
- 9. disease that Precious' father died of
- 13. character experienced sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at the hands of her mother and father
- 14. place that Precious and her son go to live that gets her away from her mom
- 16. disorder in which a person develops characteristic symptoms after exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor
Down
- 1. first line treatment for PTSD
- 2. character neglected and physically/emotionally abused her daughter
- 4. place where Precious' principal sends her after finding out about her second pregnancy
- 5. character motivated Precious and other students to learn to read and write
- 6. disease that Precious is diagnosed with at the end of the movie
- 7. condition that Precious' first-born daughter has
- 10. character helped Precious with welfare and getting out of her home situation
- 11. unwanted; nonconsensual; or forced intercourse
- 12. vivid experience in which you relive some aspects of a traumatic event
- 15. area/neighborhood where the film takes place