Neuroscience-based Trauma Treatment: How to Maximize Your Efficacy
- Speaker:
- Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 57 Minutes
- Copyright:
-
Mar 19, 2021
- Product Code:
- NOS096112
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Despite your best efforts, evidence-based trauma therapies can fail, leaving you feeling frustrated and helpless. Fortunately, neuroscience research provides insights into why this often occurs, and what steps therapists can take to maximize treatment efficacy. This recording offers simple, neuroscience-based skill sets you can help clients build before initiating evidence-based trauma therapies, as well as straightforward, easy-to-implement techniques that can prepare clients’ brains for trauma-focused treatment. Specifically, you’ll discover:
- The five areas of the brain impacted by trauma, and how each contributes to posttrauma symptoms
- What neuroscience tells us about the recommended “order of operations” of trauma treatment, and why evidence-based therapies are often initiated at the wrong time
- The difference between bottom-up and top-down approaches to therapy, and when to use each during treatment
- Four techniques that can help prepare clients’ brains for the often intense, cognitive-heavy trauma therapies
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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 1.75 continuing education credits.
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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 1.75 continuing education credits.
The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 1.75 clock hours of instruction.
PESI, Inc. is an approved CEU provider with the State of Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. This self-study activity qualifies for 1.75 contact hours. Approved Provider # NVCEP2006.
PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance in this self-study course meets the qualifications for 1.75 clock hours of continuing education credit.
This self-study program has been approved for 1.5 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.
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This self-study activity consists of 1.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
The Montana Board of Behavioral Health no longer pre-approves any courses or sponsors. Each licensee is responsible for taking courses which contribute to their competence and directly relate to their scope of practice as defined in board statute (MAR 24-219-32). Licensees must keep CE documentation for three years in case of an audit. This intermediate level self-study activity consists of 1.75 clock hours of instruction.
This self-study activity consists of 1.75 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 credits.
PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 2.25 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
This self-study activity consists of 1.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists no longer approves programs or providers. PESI activities meet the continuing education requirements as listed in Title 22 of the Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 801, Subchapter K, Section 801.264 Types of Acceptable Continuing Education. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.

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Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Neuroscience-based Trauma Treatment (5.1 MB) | 39 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Text Document | Transcript (50.7 KB) | 35 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA Related seminars and products
Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton was trained in the use of EMDR as a treatment method during her time as a clinical psychologist with the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs where she worked with active service members and combat veterans with PTSD.
She has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety.
She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degree in affective neuroscience from Stanford University and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.
Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past President of the Oklahoma Psychological Association, the President of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association for 2019 and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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Objectives
- Assess the five areas of the brain impacted by trauma, and how each contributes to post-trauma symptoms.
- Evaluate what neuroscience tells us about the recommended “order of operations” of trauma treatment, and why evidence-based therapies are often initiated at the wrong time.
- Determine the difference between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to therapy, and when to use each during treatment.
- Use four techniques that can help prepare clients’ brains for the often intense, cognitive-heavy trauma therapies.
Outline
- List five areas of the brain impacted by trauma, and how each contributes to post-trauma symptoms.
- Amygdala – smoke alarm
- Hippocampus – timekeeper
- Insula – interoception center
- Cingulate – self-regulation center
- Prefrontal cortex – executive functioning center
- Explain what neuroscience tells us about the recommended “order of operations” of trauma treatment, and why evidence-based therapies are often initiated at the wrong time.
- Build alliance first
- Help clients develop felt sense in a safe manner
- Utilize bottom up techniques
- Utilize top down techniques
- Incorporate behavioral techniques
- Most evidence-based therapies start with #4 or emphasize #4 instead of emphasizing bottom-up, somatic, stabilizing approaches.
- Describe the difference between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to therapy, and when to use each during treatment.
- Bottom-up: Working with the body to change the brain, especially lower areas of the brain such as the amygdala and insula.
- Top-down: Working with the mind to change the brain, especially upper areas of the brain such as the cingulate and prefrontal cortex.
- Start bottom-up when treating trauma, before integrating top-down techniques.
- Use four techniques that can help prepare clients’ brains for the often intense, cognitive-heavy trauma therapies.
- Mirror neuron activation in emotional centers to build therapeutic alliance
- Sensory awareness techniques, including grounding techniques, to increase felt sense and enter the body safely
- Vagus nerve activation through breathing-based techniques such as the 5-5-8-2 breath
- Body-based techniques such as autogenic training to increase heart rate variability, decrease amygdala activation, increase insula activation
- Lifestyle habits, and behaviors outside of session that can build brain-derived neurotrophic factor for hippocampal regeneration
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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