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Current Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma: The Shift from Cognition to Affect Regulation (3-day program)

This 3-DAY conference explores how neuroscience has transformed the clinical perspective and therapeutic approaches of clinicians at the cutting edge of these developments. There has been a surge of research and remarkable findings about the nature of the brain and Mind. The research has influenced the mental health field and captured the imagination of many clinicians. More recently we have entered into a new, more advanced phase of integration with profound implications for treatment.

The presenters not only cover the most up-to-date knowledge about practical, everyday applications of "brain-wise" psychotherapy, but explore the important issues about the relationship between brain and mind, the nature of the self and the interpersonal relationship between patient and therapist.

Educational Objectives: Listeners will learn about:

1. Current developments in treatment of trauma including EMDR and Sensorimotor psychotherapy.

2. The incorporation of the body in treatment of trauma patients

3. The effects of trauma on affective, cognitive and behavioral dysregulation

4. Approaches to dynamic regulation of states of consciousness

5. The importance of disorganized attachment in understanding the affects of trauma

Presentations

Rhythyms of the Mind and Brain Interacting with Other Rhythms - Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Clinical Applications of Neuroscience Research for the Treatment of PTSD - Bessel van der Kolk, MD

EMDR and Adaptive Information Processing (Part 1) - Francine Shapiro, PhD

EMDR and Adaptive Information Processing (Part 2) - Francine Shapiro, PhD

Demystifying the Mechanisms of Trauma: Maladaptive Consequences of Adaptive Bio-Behavioral Reactions to Life Threat - Stephen Porges, PhD

The Central Role of Disintegration in Trauma and of Integration in Healing - Daniel Siegel, MD

Optimal Stress: Stronger at the Broken Places - Martha Stark, MD

Panel Discussion - Messler Davies, Ogden, Schore, Shapiro, Siegel, Stark & van der Kolk

Killing the Patient with Kindness: Explorations on the “Dark Side” of the Therapeutic Relationship - Jody Messler Davies, PhD

Trauma, Attachment and the Body: Expanding the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Affect Tolerance - Pat Ogden, PhD

Working in the Right Brain: A Regulation Model of Clinical Expertise for Treatment of Attachment Trauma - Allan Schore, PhD

Final Panel - Messler Davies, Ogden, Schore, Shapiro, Siegel, Stark & van der Kolk

Program CD Price: $170.00
Homestudy Price: $190.00
Homestudy Credit: 20 CE hours
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Emotion, Mindfulness and Movement: From Pain to Transformation

This one-day immersion recorded in April 2009 gives clinicians access to new directions in treatment. It is an adjunct to current training and supervision of various treatment approaches.

This workshop emphasizes techniques that help resolve the painful emotions, cognitive distortions and intimacy issues associated with attachment failure, and clarifying body-oriented techniques that mitigate trauma-related dysregulation. Through the lens of attachment theory, Dr. Ogden demonstrates movement interventions and the use of "directed mindfulness" techniques to expand the patient's window of affect tolerance.

Pat Ogden is the founder and director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, in Colorado, co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, has served on the faculty of The Naropa University since 1985. For 35 years she has pioneered the development of somatic psychotherapy for work with individuals and groups, and specializes on treatment of trauma and attachment.

OBJECTIVES

1. Explain the nature of body-based survival responses.

2. Recognize and discuss the effects on the ANS (autonomic nervous system) when intense emotions are avoided.

3. Illustrate treatment methods that incorporate principles of sensorimotor psychotherapy and mindfulness.

4. Recognize specific steps in treatment of contract, access, process, transformation and integration.

Program CD Price: $30.00
Homestudy Price: $50.00
Homestudy Credit: 4 Continuing education hours
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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
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Total CD's: 13

Trauma and Traumatic Attachments

In an era marked by devastating natrual disaster and human violence, we are increasingly being drawn to the treatment of traumatized individuals. Catastrophic fear results in a variety of clinical symptoms which depend on pre-existing autonomic and cognitive coping strategies and the subjective meaning of trauma itself.

In this program we examine how the brain is effected in traumatic experiences.

Program CD Price: $85.00
Homestudy Price: $105.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CEU Hours
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Understanding And Treating Trauma

Catastrophic fear results in a variety of clinical symptoms which depend on pre-existing autonomic and cognitive coping strategies and the subjective meaning of trauma itself.

This conference addresses our understanding of neurophysiology, cognitive alteration, rapid asessment and psychotherapy of traumatized patients. An extensive syllabus will be provided to registrants. All of the talks will be summarizing research findings in the area of attachment, brain and cognition, neurobiology of emotional development, developmental psychopathology, treatment of incest, abuse and other traumas.

This program includes the following tapes:

(900) Overview
(901) Memory, Brain Process, Development (Part I)
(902) Clinical Manifestation of Incest Experience
(903) Compulsion to Forget and Re-enact Trauma
(904) Panel Discussion
(905) EMDR: Accelerated Information Processing
(906) Memory, Brain Process, Development (Part II)
(907) Convergence and Divergence
(908) Discussion

Program CD Price: $150.00
Homestudy Price: $170.00
Homestudy Credit: Available for Home Study Course, 14 hours continuing education
Plus sales tax (for CA residents) & Shipping (Additional Shipping Charge for International Orders)
Total CD's: 16