Register now for FREE 2-Day: Trauma Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing Through the Senses with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

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Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened cannot be undone.

But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul.

Join Bessel van der Kolk, MD, along with Licia Sky, BFA, LMT, in a transformational clinical trauma training. Attend and learn from one of the most renowned trauma experts - one who has spent decades working both as a researcher and clinician. – and NY Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps The Score.

As clinicians, the challenge is to help clients reestablish ownership of their bodies and minds — to feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed.

It takes specific methods, like neurofeedback, EMDR, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and sensory integration. Dr. van der Kolk has used every one of these methods extensively to successfully treat his own clients, and has also experienced them himself.

This 2-day conference will serve as both a guide and an invitation – an invitation to dedicate yourself to the pursuit of helping trauma clients with the best treatment approaches proven to alleviate suffering.

Let Dr. van der Kolk and Licia Sky show you how to apply these proven methods and approaches to your clinical practice — so you can experience the satisfaction of helping even your toughest client heal from deep-rooted trauma.

Sign up today for this sell-out event!

Program Information

Objectives

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

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

• Experiential body-oriented therapy exercises with Licia Sky
• 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

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychiatrists
• Addiction Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Other Helping Professionals 
  
  

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