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Janina Fisher on Using Neuroscience, Body-Oriented and Parts Therapy Approaches to Treat Trauma
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Objectives
- Develop an understanding of fragmentation theory and design related treatment interventions
- Differentiate between compartmentalization and dissociative conceptualizations and traditional trauma based conceptualizations and their contrasting approaches to treatment
Outline
- Trauma work with parts of selves and self-alienation
- Recent therapeutic history of overlooking trauma or abuse events
- Freudian conceptualizations of childhood sexuality
- Early approaches to trauma therapy - risks of group therapy
- Impact of the neuroscience revolution on trauma theory and treatment
- Pioneering the development of trauma treatment - Hermann, van der Kolk, Fisher
- Development of fragmentation theory
- Understanding the relationship between trauma and dissociation
- Reconceptualizing diagnostic categories through a trauma perspective
- Expanding the concept of compartmentalization to trauma disorders
- Repeated trauma deepening the effects of compartmentalization
- Risks of compartmentalization interventions
- Case example - history of sexual abuse, intimacy impairment
- Positives and negatives of reprocessing trauma experiences
- Alternatives to reprocessing - focus on present life influences
- Attachment styles post trauma - influence on therapeutic options
- Characteristics of disorganized/traumatized attachment patterns
- Selecting appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Self-compassion and self-acceptance as positive outcome
- Introducing the structural dissociation model effectively to clients
- Tapping in to prefrontal cortical function
- Building bonds of empathy
- Resources for continuing development
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01/05/2018
Bessel van der Kolk on Advanced Trauma Treatment Interventions: EMDR, Yoga, Neurofeedback, MDMA and more
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Outline
- Application of multiple treatment modalities for trauma intervention
- Current physical representations of prior traumas – shutting down as defense
- Utility of yoga in reconnection with physicality
- Physical primacy in treatment – inhabiting one’s body
- Core symptom expression and treatment resolution
- Efficacy and application of EMDR in trauma treatment
- Neurological impact of prolonged trauma on brain structures and executive function
- Role of neurofeedback in treatment
- Current and future research directions – MDMA, neurofeedback
- Addressing feelings of weakness and vulnerability – applications of self-compassion
- Vicarious trauma and risks of treatment – necessity of therapy for therapists
- Institutional traumatization – supportive practice characteristics
- Interventions to improve heart rate variability, cortisol characteristics
- Utility of psychodrama and therapeutic techniques – freeing stuck identities
- Case examples – incest survivor, ACOA
- Altering relationship to internal world – accessing nonverbal brain functions
- Structuring psychodrama interventions – establishing safety
- Case example – interpersonal relationship difficulty, impaired intimacy, sexual abuse history
- Matching interventions to client stability and status
- Limitations of current treatment approaches – financial and otherwise
- Internal Family Systems conceptualizations and interventions
- Role of medication adjuncts to treatment and limitations with post trauma individuals
Objectives
- Analyze current trauma interventions and incorporate relevant research findings
- Evaluate varied approaches to trauma treatment and be able to match specific interventions to particular individual presentations
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14/05/2018
Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing (SE) to Heal Trauma and Stress Disorders
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Objectives
- Characterize current Somatic Experiencing interventions and applications.
- Be able to construct and structure clinical somatic interventions for post trauma individuals.
Outline
- Current prevalence and impact of trauma and stressor-related disorders
- Somatic experiencing trauma treatment
- Conceptual development of PTSD and sub-syndromal presentations
- ACE study - impact of accumulated adverse experiences
- Corrective somatic experiences - counteracting fear based physical responses
- Case studies - childhood sexual abuse and related relationship complications
- Therapeutic exercises -vagal activation, healthy aggression
- Integrating cognitive and somatic interventions
- Primacy of somatic interventions
- Risks related to current interventions - prolonged exposure
- Impact of work on procedural memories - improving functional fluidity
- Somatic intervention techniques
- Personal case example - dissociative response to trauma, elements of healing process
- Adapting approaches to physically disabled individuals - case example
- Alternative research directions
- Contraindications for treatment of clients with unacceptable risk factors - homicidal or suicidal issues
- Case example - working with psychosis
- Resources for further training and access to ongoing developments in Somatic Experiencing
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08/03/2018
Pat Ogden on the Sensorimotor Approach to Healing Trauma through the Body
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Objectives
- Recognize and assess somatic responses to trauma and related persisting aftereffects.
- Develop and employ sensorimotor psychotherapeutic interventions for specific trauma symptoms.
Outline
- Sensorimotor approach to trauma treatment - physical responses to trauma
- Development of patterned physiological responses to trauma
- Working within the client window of tolerance - risks of exceeding limits
- Developing mindfulness of bodily responses - physical expression of meaning
- Following the somatic narrative to direct therapy
- Asking permissions and framing to facilitate client safety
- Case example - history of repeated abuse, sense of powerlessness, expression of hope
- Finding therapeutic direction in sensorimotor responses
- Corrective somatic experiences - healing and modulation
- Case example - residual dissociation and managing angry expressions
- Therapist somatic comfort and expression - expanding movement vocabulary
- Body as teacher and resource
- Social attitudes toward physicality and physical expression - future directions for child education
- Case example - aggressive child, development of resources, physical intervention
- Case example - teenage girl, limited verbal expression, crossing boundaries
- Identifying automatic patterns related to prior trauma responses
- Therapeutic interventions to address resistance and rigidity
- Conflicting desires to change and to justify one’s position
- Numbness as defense - “feigned death” response to trauma
- Physically triggered trauma responses
- Therapeutic mechanism for resolving trauma symptoms, restoring and regulating defenses
- Related homework exercises for physical expression
- Spiritual responses to trauma - personal interpretations
- Future directions for the field of sensorimotor therapy - increasing range and accessibility
- Resources for further training and development
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17/04/2018
Mary Jo Barrett on Relational Trauma Therapy for Transformative Results
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Objectives
- Individualize trauma treatment approaches to specific client resources and relational context
- Compose a structure for integrating standard trauma interventions into a collaborative change model of treatment.
Outline
- Relational components of trauma treatment
- History of child abuse interventions - family violence treatment
- Existential shifts involved in leaving family violence
- Attachment and valuing human life
- Integrative relational approaches to transformative change
- Systemic framework for human experience
- Relationship and hierarchical context for trauma experience
- Replication of relationship structure in the therapeutic setting
- Importance of flexibility and collaboration - creating context for change
- Family and couple interventions for traumatized individual
- Avoiding identified patient -“damaged goods” labeling
- Case example - multiple trauma history - mutual triggering
- Definition of traumatic stress - urge to fight, flight or freeze
- Importance of hierarchical attachment system reactions to trauma event
- Collaborative change model - empowering client feedback and control
- Phase one - creating a context for change
- Phase two - challenging patterns and expanding realities - role play example
- Matching interventions to demographics - risks of mismatching
- Current urban research and applications of collaborative change model
- Future directions - family passages
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02/05/2018
Bill O’Hanlon on the Inclusive Therapy Approach to Treat Trauma: Combining DBT, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Neuroscience for Powerful Outcomes
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Objectives
- Structure and organize inclusive psychotherapy interventions for post trauma individuals
- Analyze inclusive psychotherapy interventions and traditional trauma treatment approaches
Outline
- Practical and pragmatic therapeutic trauma approaches vs. theoretically based approaches
- Origins of inclusive therapy
- Milton Erikson and focus on present
- Avoiding repetitive thought patterns
- Directions for ongoing research
- Dissociative trauma related experiences - sensory, cognitive, perceptual, emotional, memories
- Recreating damaging relationships
- Traditional reprocessing approaches and related complications
- Inclusive therapy alternative approaches - acceptance and openness
- The three D’s of trauma impact
- Second phase of integrative therapy - permitting and validating dialectical experience
- Dealing with the risks of repetitive, stuck processing
- Permitting experience as opposed to permitting behavior
- Third phase of integrative therapy - exceptions
- Exploring alternative periods of functional and pathological behavior/experience
- Acknowledging positive aspects of experience and even trauma aftermath
- Relationship of dissociation to intense, overwhelming emotional expression
- Case examples - integrative and validating approaches
- Inviting future perspective to offer optimistic outcomes
- Demonstration of techniques for evoking positive states
- Creating new connections
- Changing repetitive post trauma patterns
- Limitations and usefulness of hypnosis based interventions
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19/04/2018
Skip Rizzo on using Virtual Reality and Technology in the Treatment of Trauma
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the current research base for emerging virtual reality interventions
- Describe and characterize potential virtual reality therapeutic interventions and applications
Outline
- Virtual reality interventions - risks and treatment opportunities
- Utility in clinical assessment and treatment, rehabilitation and resilience
- History and development of VR clinical tools
- Role of the three I’s in assessment and treatment- immersion, interactivity, imagination
- Applying the technology of virtual reality to trauma treatment
- Individualized programming - limitations of treatment efficacy
- Enhanced application of imaginative experiences - varied sensory modalities
- Ethical considerations, concomitant supportive work, therapeutic alliance, skill building
- Appeal of virtual reality approaches to a digital generation - enhancing treatment engagement
- Applications to military trauma settings, including sexual trauma - case example
- Limitations of current research base for an emerging therapy
- Presently available technology for therapeutic interventions
- Risks of self-diagnosis and self-treatments given the emotional power of virtual reality
- Uses of artificial intelligence as adjuncts to provision of psychotherapy services
- Integration into traditional clinical practice
- Directions for future research - specification and dismantling
- Augmented reality, mock interactions
- Pain interventions - proven utility of distraction techniques, chronic vs acute pain
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01/03/2018