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Digital Seminar

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

How to Individualize Trauma Treatment

Faculty:
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Copyright:
13 Oct, 2023
Product Code:
POS059543
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Despite advances in trauma research and claims of “gold standard” treatments, one method doesn’t work for everybody. Trauma treatment requires addressing many different systems that can be affected in different ways in different people. Understanding how to adapt and apply interventions for individuals experiencing traumatic stress is as important as the interventions themselves. In this workshop, you’ll learn: 

  • What we currently know about the impacts of developmental trauma on brain development 
  • How to access what is the best clinical intervention for particular problems 
  • Learn how we can change people’s internal map of predictions and expectations by introducing new experiences with precision, attunement, and interactions 
  • Why the potential role of some unconventional approaches such as yoga, martial arts, and theater are interesting subjects of current research 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



Faculty

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD's Profile

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Trauma Research Foundation


Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.

Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR. 

He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects. 

His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.

Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a professor at Boston University School of Medicine, the Director of the Trauma Center, and the National Complex Trauma Network. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. van der Kolk receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.


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Objectives

  1. Investigate how traumatic stress impacts humans differently at different stages of development. 
  2. Describe the research on the impact of traumatic experience on future perception. 
  3. Construct a model for selecting individualised trauma interventions based on the client needs. 

Outline

  • Identify the basics of the brain circuitry involved in self-experience, salience, and executive functioning, and how these are impacted by trauma 
  • How trauma impacts the processing of subsequent experiences 
  • Learn how physical mastery, memory processing, affect regulation, sensory integration and other techniques can help people from moving from being trapped in their traumatic past into living in the present 
  • The potential role of both traditional and innovative techniques in the future of the field of traumatic stress 
  • Summarise treatment strategies and alternatives to drugs and talk therapy 

Target Audience

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

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