The world’s leading expert in the field of traumatic stress, Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. is a clinical psychiatrist who has studied the impact and resolution of trauma on human beings for the past 30 years.
Bessel Van der Kolk – Trauma, Attachment & Neuroscience
Neuroscience & Brain Development
Neuroscience research and the course of brain development
How children learn to regulate their arousal systems
Fundamental capacity of the brain to self-regulate
Trauma, abuse and neglect: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development
Traumatic Imprints
Storing of traumatic imprints in the sub-cortical brain areas
Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects
Understand why and how trauma symptoms make sense (adaptations, memory equivalents, etc.)
Understand why and how traumatic imprints perpetuate maladaptive coping behaviors
The Latest Clinical Research on Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions
Neurologically-based, body-oriented therapies to resolve traumatic material
EMDR
Movement Therapies
Neurofeedback
Integrating various approaches during different stages of treatment
The DSM-5® diagnoses and need to incorporate data from DESNOS/Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma Disorder field trials
Behavioral and neurobiological implications of developmental trauma (child abuse/neglect)
Behavioral and neurobiological implications of complex trauma
Recognize and address the myriad of co-morbidities in the traumatized client
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Description:
This special seminar represents current research findings about how people’s brains, minds and bodies are affected by traumatic experiences and illustrate the principles of post-traumatic therapy. Join Dr. van der Kolk, the world’s leading expert in the field of traumatic stress, to explore specific techniques that address:
Affect regulation
The integration of dissociated aspects of experience
Overcoming helplessness
The re-integration of human connections
Memory processing
Disturbances in sensorimotor integration
Complex trauma
Developmental Trauma Disorder
The world’s leading expert in the field of traumatic stress, Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D. is a clinical psychiatrist who has studied the impact and resolution of trauma on human beings for the past 30 years. His research has ranged from developmental impact of trauma to neuroimaging and from memory processes to the use of EMDR and theater groups in PTSD. He is professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston where he also serves as director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Complex Trauma Network. He is past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. van der Kolk has taught at universities and hospitals throughout the world. He is author of over a hundred scientific articles, author of Psychological Trauma and co-editor of Traumatic Stress.
Effective treatment of post-traumatic problems needs to include addressing the imprint of trauma on the physical experience of the self as being helpless and in danger. Recovery needs to incorporate dealing with defensive efforts that helped ensure survival, incorporate physical experiences that contradict feelings and sensations associated with helplessness and disconnection.
