Watch Dr. Fisher and walk away with the strategies you need to adapt to any treatment situation…even for your most challenging trauma cases when other approaches fall short. Whether you are an EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor or DBT therapist, these concepts and techniques will be of value to you.
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Simply complete this training and the included post-event evaluation, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
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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.
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
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Demonstrate knowledge of three neurobiologically-based trauma responses and their clinical implications.
Theorize the treatment implications of how the somatosensory and autonomic effects of trauma exacerbate PTSD.
Assess the role of procedural learning and memory in client presentations.
Describe the relationship between autonomic dysregulation and addictive or self-destructive behaviour to inform treatment interventions.
Specify three interventions for regulating autonomic arousal.
Categorize ‘implicit memory’ and its role in post-traumatic stress disorders.
Employ three interventions that ensure safe, successful memory processing.
Distinguish the signs that traumatic memory has been sufficiently processed.
Catalogue the root causes of ‘disorganized attachment’ status in children as it relates to case conceptualization.
Assess the clinical implications of the symptoms and difficulties associated with disorganized attachment in adults.
Evaluate the role of structural dissociation in the treatment of complex trauma and personality disorders.
Investigate common trauma-related internal conflicts and behavioural issues caused by structural dissociation.
Utilize mindfulness-based interventions that address resolution of internal conflicts.
Determine the role of shame as an adaptation to trauma in relation to treatment planning.
Propose 3 interventions for decreasing problematic shame, fear and anger.
Outline
What is a ‘trauma’?
The neurobiological effects of traumatic experience
Impact of trauma on brain development
Threat and the developing brain
How Trauma is Encoded in the Brain and Body
Implicit versus explicit memory
Procedural learning
Assessment of trauma-related symptoms and co-morbidities
Differential diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, C-PTSD, developmental trauma
Assessment tools and scales
Applications of Neurobiological Research to Treatment
Assumptions of neurobiologically-informed treatment
Helping clients increase activity in the prefrontal cortex
Fostering the growth of new neural pathways
Research risks and limitations
Trauma-informed Treatment Planning
Addressing ongoing neurobiological effects of the trauma
Phase-oriented treatment model
Well-accepted trauma treatment approaches
Evidence-based treatments
Strategies from EMDR, IFS and SP
Contraindications for treatment
Stabilization Phase Treatment
Assist clients to identify and differentiate trauma-related symptoms
Observing triggers and triggering
Dis-identifying from implicit memories
Reframing the symptoms to reduce shame
Use of Mindfulness-based Interventions
Mindfulness in the context of therapy
The effect of mindfulness on the brain
Using mindful language and interventions to promote neuroplastic change
Implementing the Principles of Neuroplastic Change in Therapy
Inhibition of old patterns of thinking/behaving
Intensive repetition of new patterns or skills
Role of mindful concentration
Treatment of Traumatic Memories
Implicit versus explicit memory
A neurobiologically-informed approach to processing explicit memory
Risk factors and complications of memory processing
Approaches to treatment of traumatic memory
Resolving Implicit Memory
Treatment approaches for addressing implicit memory
Overcoming the fear of traumatic memory
Assessing when memory has been adequately processed
Traumatic Attachment
When the source of safety is the source of threat
“Frightened” and “Frightening” caregiving
Disorganized-unresolved attachment as survival defence
Impact of disorganized attachment on affect regulation/dysregulation
Effects of Disorganized Attachment in Therapy
Phobia of therapy and the therapist
Traumatic transference and disorganized attachment
Affect dysregulating effects of psychotherapy
Increasing regulatory ability in therapy
Right brain-to-right brain communication
Addressing Disorganized Attachment
The therapist as neurobiological regulator
Minimizing negative affect
Maximizing positive affect
Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy
Dissociation as a Complication of Trauma
Fragmentation and dissociation as an adaptation to trauma
Understanding client symptoms as manifestations of fragmented parts
Mindful observation of distress and impulsive behaviour as parts-related
Dis-identification with the parts and symptoms
Changing the Client’s Relationship to Themselves and Their Parts
Increasing empathy for the parts
Facilitating inner dialogue and negotiation
Replacing self-hostility with self-compassion
Treating the Effects of Trauma-shame
Understanding shame as a defensive survival response
Shame as a source of safety in trauma
Combatting shame-based cognitive schemas
Treatment of shame as a part of the personality
Addressing the Effects of Persistent Fear
The role of fear as a survival defence
A neurobiologically-informed approach to addressing anxiety symptoms
Treatment of anxiety as a part of the personality
Interventions for the Effects of Anger and Hostility
The role of anger as a survival defence
Discharging anger versus using anger to empower
Treatment of anger as a part of the personality
Target Audience
Addiction Counsellors
Case Managers
Counsellors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychotherapists
Social Workers
Other Mental Health Professionals
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