23rd Annual International Trauma Conference

Boston, Massachusetts
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Pre-Conference Institutes
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Workshop I (This workshop meets two days – Weds., June 6, and Thurs., June 7.)
Fostering Resilience in Trauma-impacted Youth and Families: The Attachment, Self-regulation, and Competency (ARC) Treatment Framework
Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD • Laurie Brown, LICSW

The Attachment, Self-regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework is a core-components treatment model, developed to provide a guiding framework for thoughtful clinical intervention with complexly traumatized youth and their caregiving systems. Drawing from the fields of trauma, attachment, and child development, the framework recognizes the importance of working with the child-in-context, of acknowledging the role of historical experiences and adaptive responses in current presentation, and of intervening with the surrounding environment – whether primary caregivers or treatment system – to support and facilitate the child’s healthy growth and development. Rather than identify step-by-step intervention strategies, the framework identifies 10 key “building blocks”, or intervention targets, key skills/goals within each domain, developmental and cultural considerations, and potential applications across settings.

Workshop II (This workshop meets two days – Weds., June 6, and Thurs., June 7.)
Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment for Traumatized Children
Elizabeth Warner, PsyD • Alexandra Cook, PhD

This workshop will expose participants to a new approach for working with traumatized children utilizing in-depth case presentation including videotape. SMART was developed because therapists working with children who have experienced complex trauma and neglect often find themselves struggling to address powerful swings in emotion, dissociation, behavioral outbursts, withdrawn numbness, and impenetrable avoidance. Participants will see how SMART addresses arousal and affect regulation utilizing specific therapeutic skills and sensory integration equipment. Furthermore, we will explore how this regulatory capacity leads to expression of traumatic content allowing healing to begin.

Pre-Conference Institutes
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Workshop I Continued

Workshop II Continued

Workshop III The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in the Treatment of Traumatic Stress
Diana Fosha, PhD • Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

Many current models of psychotherapy espouse the centrality of attachment. IFS (Internal Family Systems) and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) have sought to be precise regarding how attachment translates into clinical work. IFS focuses on the development of a secure attachment relationship between the self and its parts when the client’s self, rather than the therapist, becomes the healthy attachment figure for the client’s young, hurt parts. AEDP, aiming to develop security of attachment from the get-go, focuses on the positive vitalizing experiences and positive dyadic interactions that are the stuff of secure attachment, and works explicitly and experientially with the experience of attachment in the therapeutic relationship.

Richard Schwartz (IFS) and Diana Fosha (AEDP), through lively dialogue and videotapes, will explore how to clinically best make use of the therapeutic relationship in trauma treatment.

Workshop IV Mindfulness, Trauma and the Brain
Mohammed R. Milad, PhD • Britta Hoelzel, PhD • Sue Andersen Navalta, PhD • David Vago, PhD • Tim Gard, MSc • Paul A. Frewen, PhD, C.Psych • Jim Hopper, PhD • Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of mindfulness and self-awareness as the foundations of emotional responsiveness, psychological change and personal growth. This workshop brings together a group of neuroscientists whose work constitute the cutting edge on the neurobiological foundations of stress resilience, mindfulness, the effects of trauma, self-awareness and self-organization, as well as how mindfulness meditation and yoga can change the brain.

Workshop V Beyond Stabilization: The Role of the Body in Processing Deep Emotion
Pat Ogden, PhD

With an appreciation that change in emotion requires a change in the body, this workshop will explore the complex territory of affect, emotion and feeling using concepts from attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. New videos of therapy sessions with adults, children, and adolescents will provide rich clinical material to illustrate how working with movement and posture can be a powerful vehicle to enhance interactive regulation and access repressed and dissociated emotional states.

Workshop VI Enhancing Therapeutic Outcomes in Severe Disorders: Neurofeedback in Clinical Practice
Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN • Lawrence Hirshberg, PhD • Ed Hamlin, PhD

Neurofeedback, an exciting and highly promising approach for improving self-regulation of the central nervous system, has been applied in a variety of settings. This workshop will address an overview of brain dysregulation in severe emotional disorders, and the relationship between brain functioning and the mind. Application of neurofeedback as a technique for helping to regulate arousal and improve emotional and behavioral functioning will be described, and evidence supporting its efficacy will be reviewed. Using several case examples, experienced practitioners will describe how they have integrated neurofeedback and psychotherapy to benefit clients who have often not succeeded with other therapeutic approaches.


 

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