Healing Trauma: Attachment, Trauma, The Brain & The Mind

The old dichotomies of “nature or nurture” and “mind and brain have finally yielded to an appreciation of the complex and powerful ways in which biology and environment continously interact in shaping perception and behavior. Thus, a new paradigm for treatment is now possible; therapy is an invention that changes the brain. A framework for understanding normal growth and development and a re-evaluation and redefinition of trauma is presented. This conference examines: 1) How life experience influences maturation and development of the brain. 2) The effect of both positive and traumatic environmental events in the development of behavior, symptoms, and illness.

The speakers emphasize the ways in which the social environment, including relationships of childhood, adulthood, and treatment, can change aspects of the structure of the brain and ultimately alter the mind. The presenters translate complex brain phenomena into readily understandable models that will have immediate applicability for clinical practice.

OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

Gain experience in using principles of attachment theory

Clarify normal growth and development

Understand how positive and traumatic environmental experiences alter brain function and structure

Learn specific techniques for treating trauma-based pathology

Understand how the use of specific therapeutic techniques can optimize the functioning of the brain and mind

This program includes the following tapes:

• (650) Attachment, the Brain and the Developing Mind
• (651) Effect of Early Childhood Trauma on Affect Regulation
• (652) Trauma, Therapy, and the Brain
• (653) Attachment Disturbances and the Development of Psychopathology
• (654) Childhood Trauma and Compulsive Punishment of the Self: Breaking the Transgenerational Chain of Child
• (655) EMDR - Basic Uses and Future Applications
• (656) Affect, Dyadic Regulation and the Body: Transforming Experiences and the Emergence of Healing Affects
• (657) The Role of Empathy in Human Development and Psychoanalysis

Program CD Price: $130.00
Homestudy Price: $150.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
Plus sales tax (for CA residents) & Shipping (Additional Shipping Charge for International Orders)
Total CD's: 13