Bessel A. van der Kolk’s 29th Annual Trauma Conference-Main Conference Day 2 – Gabor Maté and Others

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The study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in helping to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among the emotional, cognitive, social and biological forces that shape human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming attachment and social experiences in childhood (“Developmental Trauma”), this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can “set” psychological expectations and biological selectivity.

When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on drugs or cognition. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level of the brain; i.e., by “unconscious” interpretations that take place outside of conscious awareness. Insight and understanding have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes, but synchrony, movement and reparative experiences do.

Workshops included in this recording:

• The Effects of Trauma on the Mind-Body Relationship in Everyday Life: Posture, Balance, Self-Awareness, Sensory Integration, Giving and Receiving – Matthew Sanford
• When the Body Says No: Trauma, Physical Illness and Self Care – Gabor Maté, MD
• Panel Discussion
• The Evolution of Child Trauma Treatment: 15 Years of Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) – Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD
• Panel Discussion
• Healing Relational Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy – Frank Guastella Anderson, MD
• Amazing Grace: Journey to Wellness -The Intersection of Spirituality &Medicine to Promote Personal Healing and Community Wholeness – Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv

1. Identify the role of stress and developmental trauma when it comes psychoneuroimmunology, and how can this increased knowledge enhance clinical practice.
2. Summarize the ARC framework with youth and families who have experienced multiple and/or prolonged traumatic stress.
3. Communicate how Affect Dysregulation and Executive Function difficulties are manifested in individuals diagnosed with various psychological disorders.
4. Analyze the neurobiology of Executive Functions as it relates to treatment outcomes.
5. Identify the intersection of spirituality and medicine to promote personal healing and community wholeness.

The Effects of Trauma on the Mind-Body Relationship in Everyday Life: Posture, Balance, Self-Awareness, Sensory Integration, Giving and Receiving – Matthew Sanford

• The Accident
• The Experience of Silence
• The Inside of Movement
• Living in Multiple Plains of Time
• Coming Home to Your Body
• Inward Yoga Exercises

When the Body Says No: Trauma, Physical Illness and Self Care – Gabor Maté, MD

• Addiction Defined
• Coping Mechanisms and Dissociation
• The Connections of Trauma, Physical Illness and Self Care

Panel Discussion
The Evolution of Child Trauma Treatment: 15 Years of Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) – Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD

• Evolution as a Child Clinician
• The ARC Framework
• Breakdown of the Framework

Panel Discussion
Healing Relational Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy – Frank Guastella Anderson, MD

• Internally Focused Meditation
• Understanding Traumas
• Basics of Internal Family Systems
• Complex Traumas in the IFS Model
• Self to Part Connection
• Video Demonstration of the IFS Model

Amazing Grace: Journey to Wellness -The Intersection of Spirituality & Medicine to Promote Personal Healing and Community Wholeness – Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv

• A Watershed Moment
• The 10-Point Coalition
• Understanding the Data
• A Story of a Young Man