Psychophysiology of Trauma

This presentation focuses on understanding the physiology of trauma by understanding the normal life-preserving survival responses of “flight/fight/freeze” in an individual and how they fulfill nature’s species-preserving function. Investigating the disturbance of these responses forms the essential foundation for understanding symptoms that results in Post-Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Trauma is fundamentally a highly activated incomplete psycho-physiological response to threat, frozen in time. What is significant in the resolution of trauma is the completion of incompleted responses to threat and the ensuing discharge of the energy that was mobilized for survival.

This course is a requirement for Level-2 Certification. You do not need to be enrolled in the Certification Program to attend this course.

Brief Description of Instructional Format:

Videotaped segments of interviews with traumatized children are used to demonstrate intervention process. Didactic presentation provides information and framework related to PTSD; break out sessions provide participants opportunities to practice strategies presented. Multiple handouts provide checklists, etc.

Goal:

To provide participants with an overview of the relatedness of trauma with changes in learning, behavior and memory of trauma victims as well as to better understand the intervention strategies needed to help ameliorate learning, behavior, memory reactions to trauma.

Session Objectives:

To identify the psychophysiology components of traumatization, the impact trauma has on the mind (memory) and body, and the interventions designed to relieve the effects of trauma.

Learning Objectives:

Learner will be able to:

Identify specific psychophysiological effects of trauma on learning, behavior and emotions.
Identify the specific responses of Explicit and Implicit memory functions.
Identify strategies directed at reducing the psychophysiological effects of trauma.
Identify ways to use the mind and body as healing resources.

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