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2-Day: Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Watch renowned trauma expert and NY Times bestselling author, Bessel van der Kolk, MD, for this transformational intensive recording on the latest research and drug-free treatment techniques for your trauma clients.

Dr. van der Kolk will give you a new understanding of the neuroscience of traumatic stress and the research demonstrating the efficacy and possible limitations of mind-body treatment approaches. He will detail the benefits of neurofeedback, EMDR, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and sensory integration methods such as dance and movement.

Through intriguing videos, case studies, and masterful explanation, you will learn how to give your clients:

A way to find words that describe what is going on
Ways to regulate their emotions
The ability to trust other human beings after the shameful and horrific details of their lives
The research on the latest tools to process traumatic memories
Transformation! – to be fully alive in the present, not stuck in the past

This is a “don’t miss” recording that is based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research but also that of other leading specialists.

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Outline

Neuroscience & Brain Development

Neuroscience and brain development
How children learn to regulate their arousal systems
How the brain regulates itself
Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development due to trauma, abuse and neglect
How the brain responds to treatment

Early Life Trauma

Interpersonal neurobiology
Adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle
Loss of affect regulation
Chronic destructive relationships towards self and others
Dissociation and amnesia
Somatization
Self-blame, guilt and shame
Chronic distrust and identification with the aggressor

Attachment, Trauma, and Psychopathology

The breakdown of information processing in trauma
Mirror neuron systems and brain development
How to overcome the destabilization and disintegration
The compulsion to repeat – origins and solutions
Difference between disorganized attachment and traumatic stress

Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory and the Body

The neurobiology of traumatic stress
Learned helplessness and learned agency
Restoring active mastery and the ability to attend to current experiences
Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects that serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors
How mind and brain mature in the context of caregiving systems

The Diagnosis of Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders

Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
Affect and impulse dysregulation
Disturbances of attention, cognition and consciousness
Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning
Interpersonal difficulties
Somatization and biological dysregulation
The development of DTD in the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment

The Latest Research on Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions

The role of body-oriented and neurologically-based therapies to resolve the traumatic past
Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy
EMDR
Self-regulation, including yoga
Mindfulness
Play and theatre
Dance, movement and sensory integration
Neurofeedback

Objectives

Analyze & communicate how traumatized people process information.
Determine how sensorimotor processing can alleviate traumatic re-experiencing.
Articulate the range of adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle.
Substantiate how trauma affects the developing mind and brain.
Communicate the recent advances in neurobiology of trauma.
Differentiate between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress.
Break down how adverse childhood experiences affect brain development, emotion regulation & cognition.
Choose techniques of physical mastery, affect regulation and memory processing.
Assess how traumatic imprints can be integrated using techniques drawn from yoga, theater, neurofeedback, and somatic therapies.
Appraise the current DSM-5® position on DTD.
Demonstrate how to integrate various treatment approaches in your practice.
Defend treatment strategy alternatives to drugs and talk therapy through an understanding of current research.

Copyright : 31/01/2019

The Enduring Neurobiological Effects of Abuse & Neglect

Join Dr. Teicher as he provides a thorough exploration of his research on how early childhood maltreatment creates a cascade of physiological and neurohumoral responses that leads to a variety of psychiatric disorders. Discover the connection between childhood development and the associated neurological responses to the impact of trauma.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the same content from the 30th Annual International Trauma Conference, you cannot receive self-study credit for this program if you have already attended the live workshops.

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Objectives

Assess how traumatic experiences impact brain development and affect regulation as it relates to clinical practice.

Outline

Findings from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Research on Enduring Effects of Childhood Maltreatment

Correlations of ACEs with Psychological Disorders
Enduring Effects of ACEs on Disrupted Neural and Cognitive Development

Brain Structures Affected by Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment

Results from Neuroimaging
Effects on Corpus Callosum and Amygdala

Impacts of Types and Timing of Maltreatment

Gender Differences in Impacts of Abuse
Critical and Sensitive Periods of Brain Development

Relationships Between Childhood Abuse, Brain Changes, and Psychiatric Illness

Psychological Distress and Disorders Related to ACEs
Impact of Trauma on Brain Fiber Network Organization
Treatments to Mitigate Structural and Functional Deficiencies to Increase Resilience

Copyright : 01/06/2019

Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement

Explore the world of expressive arts to enhance your current trauma treatment. Discover the three levels of the expressive arts therapies continuum and the evidence-based four-part model for expressive arts and trauma. Dr. Malchiodi will guide you through the best practices and real-world application of this model so you can immediately implement this with your clients.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the same content from the 30th Annual International Trauma Conference, you cannot receive self-study credit for this program if you have already attended the live workshops.

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Objectives

Defend why sensory-based arts interventions are essential to reducing the body’s response to stress and put to practical use in-session.
Appraise current research into the efficacy of expressive arts approaches to trauma treatment.

Outline

Integration of Expressive Arts Into Expressive Art Therapy

The “Silos” of Expressive Art

Current Expressive Arts Programs in Health and Community Settings

Continuum of Expressive Arts Therapies

Sensory-Based Experience
Asset Driven Approach as Opposed to Pathology Driven Interventions

Limitations of Evidence Base Underlying Expressive Arts Therapy for Trauma Treatment

Efficacious Components of Therapy
Directions for Future Research

Effective Implementation of Community-Based Interventions

Four-Part Model for Expressive Arts and Trauma – Movement, Sound, Storytelling, and Silence

Examples of Effective Implementation
Utilizing Established Cultural Practices

DE-CRUIT: Treating Trauma in Military Veterans through Shakespeare & Science

DE-CRUIT is a veteran-created, scientifically proven, trauma-informed program to help veteran-specific issues post service. Utilize rituals along with breath, language, and theatre camaraderie to reconnect what trauma and the military disconnected to improve quality of life for veterans and their families.

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Objectives

Utilize DE-CRUIT techniques to transform military camaraderie into camaraderie among treatment group members to communalize the process of healing from the trauma of war.

Me Too: At the Intersection of Sexual Violence and Racial Justice - A Fireside Chat with Tarana Burke

Join this powerful, culturally-relevant, discussion with the founder of the Me Too movement - Tarana Burke. She shares the life experiences that led to the creation of this movement, discusses trauma created by the prevalence of sexual violence in our culture, and life-changing empowerment strategies to help others heal.