Full Course Description

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Trauma: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness with Peter Levine, Ph.D.

Program Information

Objectives

1. Articulate the four major developmental stages that increase vulnerability to trauma and how to recognize them in your clients.
2. Determine the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse as it relates to clinical treatment.
3. Discover the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory and their clinical implications.
4. Demonstrate the importance of “Bottom-up” processing versus “Top Down” processing to improve treatment outcomes.
5. Summarize the process of how overwhelming stress leads to somatic and emotional syndromes in clients.
6. Incorporate Dr. Levine’s simple containment tools in order to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.

Copyright : 09/10/2015

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In Session — Resolving Trauma in Psychotherapy: A Somatic Approach

OUTLINE

1. Introduction: Peter Levine’s Approach to Trauma Resolution
2. The 9 Building Blocks
   1. Create an Environment of Relative Safety
   2. Support initial exploration and comfort with bodily sensations
   3. Pendulation
   4. Restore active defensive responses
   5. Titration
   6. Uncoupling fear from immobility
   7. Encouraging the discharge of energy
   8. Restore equilibrium and balance through self-regulation
   9. Reorient to the here-and-now
3. Video Sessions with Ray
   1. Session 1
   2. Session 2
   3. Session 3
   4. Session 4
   5. Session 5
4. Client reflections

Discussion

OBJECTIVES

• Analyze the nine building blocks of Somatic Experiencing®.
• Articulate techniques to establish a safe environment, orient the client to the here-and-now, and explore bodily sensations.
• Communicate the physiological basis of trauma.

• Articulate why unresolved trauma impacts the ability to interact on an emotional level.

Copyright : 01/01/2010

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