How can therapy help to restore a sense of self after trauma?

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, briefly describes her course Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity, intended to help clinicians doing trauma therapy, to understand the new neuroscience, and how to intervene at a deep brain level to help survivors recover.

 

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Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity

Ruth Lanius Course:

Six-part weekly webinar explores critical brain systems affected by trauma, how altered functioning of each is associated with trauma-related symptoms, and how to treat them.


Begins September 15, 3pm EDT

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Ruth Lanius Course On Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity

Session 1. The Reptilian Brain and Trauma

How can we target the reptilian brain therapeutically in order to heal from trauma?

Here, we will discuss the important role of the reptilian brain in subconscious processes, including innate reflexive functioning (active and passive defensive responses), autonomic regulation, and in generating raw affective experience -- all functions critical to the recovery of traumatic stress.

We will also review how the reptilian brain can influence the limbic and cortical parts of brain, which allows us to regulate emotions, think and plan, and look into the future. The critical implications of the connections of the reptilian brain to both the limbic and cortical brain structures for the treatment of trauma will be considered.


Learning Objectives
  1. To discuss the role of the reptilian brain and its relationship to trauma-related symptomatology
  2. To describe the implications of reptilian brain dysfunction for the treatment of trauma-related disorders

This six-part weekly webinar will explore critical brain systems that are affected frequently by trauma and how altered functioning of each brain system can be associated with certain trauma-related symptoms.

The effects of a variety of present- and past centered therapies, including mindfulness training, body-oriented approaches, neurofeedback, heart rate variability training, brain stimulation, EMDR, CBT/prolonged exposure, will be then be discussed to illustrate how trauma treatment can lead to the restoration of critical brain networks and contribute to the healing from traumatic stress.

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD is one of the leading clinical neuroscience researchers in the study of the traumatized brain and one of the few who has focused her research on the importance of neurofeedback in treatment of trauma. She is the co-author of Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness; Neuroscience; Treatment written with Paul Frewen, PhD and co-editor of The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, with Eric Vermetten and Clare Pain. She has published over 150 research articles.
Sessions Tuesdays 3pm EDT

  • 15 September -- 1) The Reptilian Brain and Trauma.
  • 22 September -- 2) Sensory Processing, Trauma, and the Development of the Self: Implications for Sensory-Based Treatment Interventions.
  • 29 September -- 3) The Major Brain Networks and Trauma: Implications for Daily Functioning of Trauma Survivors.
  • 6 October -- 4) The Sense of Self in the Aftermath of Trauma: Lessons from the Default Mode Network.
  • 13 October -- 5) The Neurobiology of Eye Contact and Shame: Implications for the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma.
  • 20 October -- 6) Trauma and Neuroplasticity: How the Brain Recovers from Trauma

    About the course

    Each session of the course will be recorded and available to registrants to watch from the website as many times as you like.

    In most cases, the recording will be posted about a week after the live session. Occasionally, for technical reasons, it may take a little longer. It rarely takes longer than two weeks.

    Registrants will have access to the recording to watch as often as they like for 30 days from when it is posted.

    CEs are only available if the attendee is present for the live session. To qualify, you will need to post that you are present in the live session in the chat, and also complete the evaluation after all the sessions are done. If you follow these guidelines, it is possible to get credit for some portion of the six if it's not possible for them to attend all of them.

Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity

Ruth Lanius Online Course

Begins September 15, 3pm EDT

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