I have just created a new group here on ACEsConnection for those of us who either have experience with neurofeedback therapy, or for those of us who would like to know more about it. I hope you'll consider joining! I am reading lots of encouraging news about the potential for neurofeedback! I for one think it may well have the potential for making a huge difference for prison inmates, among so many other categories of ACE effected people.
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I am here, an active member of ACEs Connection, because I adopted a baby girl from foster care who has a high ACEs score. She suffered much early childhood trauma and neglect.
Does anyone here have any experience with the use of neurofeedback for treating children like mine? I have heard very encouraging things about it and have done some reading...but, have not had the opportunity to try it with my daughter. The pro-neurofeedback people would have us believe that their techniques are nearly miraculous. IF this is true, why aren't we in the ACEs community promoting, suggesting and encouraging the use of neurofeedback with people of all ages who have high ACE scores? It seems to me, we have an obligation to research this treatment method, to either rule it out, or, to let the world know it's a viable tool for making substantial in roads in building resilience. Is anyone else here interested in this topic other than myself? :D
Hi Shelley,
I would welcome an opportunity to learn more about both neurofeedback, and its use in prisons. Having communicated with Stanford Prison Experiment researcher Phil Zimbardo, intermittently over 40 years, and read his most recent self-critique of the Stanford study in his more recent book "The Lucifer Effect:...", as well as Susan Lawrence, M.D.'s book: "Creating A Healing Society:..." (which notes both the ACE study and her work with the then "trauma-informed" California Honor Prison-where inmates renounced gang membership if they had any, and committed to "non-violence"...).
I would certainly like to learn more about the "... lots of encouraging news about the potential for neurofeedback!"
Thank you for considering my application to join the group.
P.S., I have had positive experience with both EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. Prior EMDR Network newsletters on occasion noted it's use with "pre-verbal" children-using "finger snaps" by each ear, rather than Eye Movements...I'm not sure how EMDR clinicians "frame" the traumatic event with pre-verbal children, but hopefully I'll come to learn plenty more, at least about neurofeedback, here.
