'Synchrony Rhythm; Attachment Synchrony and Rhythmicity

Outline of WorkshopNeuroscience & Brain DevelopmentNeuroscience and brain development How children learn to regulate their arousal systems How the brain regulates itself Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of... [ view full abstract ]

Outline of Workshop
Neuroscience & Brain Development

Neuroscience and brain development

How children learn to regulate their arousal systems

How the brain regulates itself

Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development due to trauma, abuse and neglect:

How the brain responds to threat, and how Early Life Trauma

Interpersonal neurobiology

Adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle

Loss of affect regulation

Chronic destructive relationships towards self and others;

Dissociation and amnesia

Somatization

Self-blame, guilt and shame

Chronic distrust and identification with the aggressor
Attachment, Trauma, and Psychopathology

The breakdown of information processing in trauma

Mirror neuron systems and brain development

How to overcome the destabilization and disintegration

The compulsion to repeat – origins and solutions.

Difference between disorganized attachment and traumatic stress
Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory and the Body

Theneurobiology of traumatic stress

Learned helplessness and learned agency

Restoring active mastery and the ability to attend to current experiences

Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects that serve as engines for
continuing maladaptive behaviors

How mind and brain mature in the context of caregiving systems
The Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders

Developmental Trauma Disorder

Affect and impulse dysregulation

Disturbances of attention, cognition, and consciousness

Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning

Interpersonal difficulties

Somatization and biological dysregulation

This presentation will review the development of DTD in the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its
implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
Trau m a - s p e c i f i c Tr e a t m e n t I n t e r v e n t i o n s

The role of body-oriented and neurologically-based therapies to resolve the traumatic past

Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy

EMDR

Self-Regulation, including Yoga

Mindfulness

Play and Theatre

Dance, Movement and sensory integration.

Neurofeedback