Full Course Description
The Whole-Brain Child Approach
OUTLINE
Introduction—Integration as a theoretical framework
Part 1—Two Brains are Better than One: Integrate the Left and the Right
- Whole-Brain Strategy #1–Connect and Redirect:
- Whole-Brain Strategy #2 – Name It to Tame It:
- Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions and Build Resilience for Difficult Transitions
Part 2—Building the Staircase of the Mind: Integrating the Upstairs and Downstairs
- Whole-Brain Strategy #3–Engage, Don’t Enrage:
- Appealing to the Upstairs Brain
- Reducing flight, fight, and freeze responses and increase thinking responses
- Whole-Brain Strategy #4 – Use It or Lose It:
- Exercising the Upstairs Brain
- Strategies for executive function, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and oppositional defiant disorders
- Whole-Brain Strategy #5 – Move It or Lose It:
- Moving the Body to Avoid Losing the Mind
- Using movement to shift automatic emotional and bodily responses
Part 3—Kill the Butterflies! Integrating Memory for Growth and Healing
- Whole-Brain Strategy #6 – Use the Remote of the Mind:
- Replaying Memories to Resolve Little Traumas and Big Traumas
- Whole-Brain Strategy #7 – Remember to Remember:
- Making Recollection a Part of Daily Life
- Creating new neural connections for self-identity formation
Part 4—The United States of Me: Integrating the Many Parts of Myself
- Whole-Brain Strategy #8 – Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By:
- Teaching that Feelings Come And Go
- Whole-Brain Strategy #9 – SIFT: Paying Attention to What’s Going On Inside
- Tools for improving self-awareness and insight
- Whole-Brain Strategy #10 – Exercise Mindsight:
- Intervention for anxiety and mood disorders
Part 5—The Me-We Connection: Integrating Self and Other
- Whole-Brain Strategy #11 – Increase the Family Fun Factor:
- Creating new family dynamics
- Whole-Brain Strategy #12 – Connect Through Conflict:
- Teaching Kids to Argue with a “We” in Mind
- Expressing feelings appropriately in ways that improve relationships
OBJECTIVES
- Identify the framework of integration that can lead to health and wholeness
- Explain how to revolutionize your assessment and treatment of anxiety, affective, executive function, and disruptive behavior disorders
- Utilize Specific clinical experiences to shape how their clients’ brains are wired and function
- Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology with pediatric and adolescent clients
- Implement twelve Whole-Brain strategies
- Show children how to take implicit memories of painful/traumatic experiences and make them explicit
Copyright :
08/11/2013
Brainstorm: A Clinician's Guide to the Changing Adolescent Brain
OUTLINE
Dispelling the popular myths of teenage behavior
- Cultural myths
- Modern scientific views
The Essence of Adolescence
- Benefits and challenges of this important period of life
- How the essential elements of adolescence are the core of living a vital adult life as well
- The myths vs. modern scientific views
- Risk-taking, pushing-away, and sexual behavior of adolescence
- Adolescence is now longer than ever before, creating unique stressors
The Adolescent Brain
- The developmental neurobiology of the adolescent period
- Pruning and myelination leads to the remodeling of the brain into the mid-twenties
- Risk-taking behaviors and the origin of “hyper-rational” thinking overemphasizing the pros of a choice over the possible cons
- Develop “gist thinking” that relies on intuition
- Exercises that stimulate the integrative growth of the brain
Adolescence and Attachment
- Attachment toward parents changes during adolescence
- Push toward peer connections
- Social engagement becomes a central part of teen life
- Early life attachment continues to influence the adolescent’s relationships and the emerging self
- Move non-secure attachment models toward security
- “Mindsight skill practices”:
Clinical Strategies: Staying Present Through Changes and Challenges
- Emergence of a sexual identity and sexual relationships
- Romance and first love
- Drug use and abuse
- The return home of an adolescent who has already left for a period of time
- Other issues
- The most common period for the onset of serious psychiatric problems:
- Mood disorders
- Anxiety
- Disturbances in body image and identity
- Role of our cultural approach to the essence of adolescence
- Other issues
- Social media
- Nutrition
- Divorce
- Education
OBJECTIVES
- Describe 4 fundamental aspects of the essence of adolescence.
- Explore how brain development affects teenage behavior and relationships.
- Identify the difference between impulsivity and hyper- rational thinking.
- List the 2 major components of the remodeling process in the teenage brain.
- Name 3 outcomes of the changes in dopamine processing in the adolescent brain.
- Evaluate adolescent increased risk and 3 neurological processes that cause it.
- Compare adolescent risk-taking with and without the presence of peers.
- Describe the relationship between gender identity and sexual orientation.
Copyright :
09/05/2014
The Role of Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy​
OUTLINE
Play
- How attachment relationships create the space for play
- Neural integration, play and self-regulation
- Trust, social engagement and play
- Forms of play
Development of Play Across the Lifespan
- Developmental trauma and its impact on trust and play
- Abuse, neglect, and attachment
- Traumatic attachment, unsolvable fear, and impaired play
- Dissociation as a developmental result of trauma
The Fundamentals of a Creative Psychotherapy
- The PART we play as therapists
- Healing power of presence
- The Polyvagal Theory and social engagement
- Play and imagination within dyadic integration
- Trust and the social engagement system of the brain
Play and Creativity
- Space for inner directed exploration of the internal and external worlds
- Find time to play and the freedom to create
- Thriving with uncertainty
- The pleasure of play builds upon itself
Play and Therapy
- Energy and Information in new combinations
- Use the a playful mind to change a chaotic or rigid brain
- The central role of consciousness and neuroplasticity in the process of therapy
- The self-organizing aspect of play in therapy
- How creativity and play change a brain
Interventions and Play Activities
- PTSD
- OCD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depression
A Playful Interpersonal Space in Psychotherapy
- Respect and Trust
- Embrace the power of uncertainty
- Cultivate and reignite the creative imagination
- Relational and neural integration at the heart of resilience and health
OBJECTIVES
- Discuss the role of play in the development of mental well-being.
- List four forms of play.
- Contrast a state of trust from a state of wariness.
- Identify how attachment patterns shape the drive for exploration.
- Summarize three ways in which uncertainty is necessary for play.
- Name four ways to incorporate creative play in psychotherapy.
Copyright :
14/10/2015
Brainstorm: The Power + Purpose of the Teenage Brain Session
Outline:
Dispelling the popular myths of teenage behavior
- Cultural myths
- Modern scientific views
Why teens are driven to seek out novelty and take more risks
- Sexual identity and relationships
- Romance and first love
- Drug use and abuse
- Other issues
The brain undergoes rapid changes, even throughout one’s early 20s
- Rebellious “teen” years don’t end when they turn 20
Adolescence is truly a “Golden Age”
Objectives:
- Describe the fundamental aspects of the essence of adolescence
- Explore how the brain development affects teenage behavior and relationships
Copyright :
09/12/2013