Trauma, Inflammation, and Recovery
Insights from Neurobiology
NOW CLOSED
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Friday 18 March 2022
A Live Webinar with Donna Jackson Nakazawa
CE Credits: 3 hours
- Includes a recording of the event with access for a year (14 days post the event)
- Bookings close at 5:00am EDT Tuesday 15 March
Recent discoveries in neuroscience tell us that body and brain are constantly responding to perceived threats from our environment, deciding – on a cellular level – whether we are safe or not. How secure we feel in the world around us profoundly affects not only our physical and immune health, but our brain’s immune health, which, in turn, determines our mental wellbeing.
READ MORE...In this seminar, we will explore how early trauma sets the stage for brain health in adulthood, how chronic stressors in adult life exacerbate these potential ill effects, and the latest scientific understanding on the biophysical link between trauma, inflammation, and mental health. Participants will also learn the latest neuroscience on why chronic stressors and adversity affect the female brain and immune system in unique ways, and how this gender difference first manifests in puberty, playing a role in higher rates of mental health disorders and autoimmunity in girls and women.
We will discuss how these myriad factors contribute to depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and other mental health concerns in all patients, and most importantly why understanding these key emerging findings in neuroscience and neuroimmunology are crucial to intervening and treating mental health disorders.
FULL PROGRAMME
10.00 EDT
Introductions
10.05
How Our Biographies Become Our Biology: How Chronic Stress and Trauma Change the Brain and Behavior
In this session, participants will learn how early trauma sets the stage for brain health in adulthood, how chronic stressors in adult life exacerbate these potential ill effects, and the latest scientific understanding of the biophysical link between trauma, inflammation, and mental health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) have a firm grasp of the current understanding of how trauma, adversity, and uncertainty affect brain health; 2) understand the epigenetic effects of chronic stress and trauma on the brain, behaviour, and mental health; and 3) understand the link between physical inflammation, brain health, and behaviour.
11.00
Q&A
11.15
Break
11.30
A Growing Mental Health Crisis: Emerging Neuroscience on Trauma, Inflammation and Mental Health
In this session, we will discuss how the body and brain constantly respond to perceived threats from our environment, and decide, on a cellular level, whether we are safe, or unsafe. We will delve into emerging neuroscience on the cellular link between our physical and mental health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) understand why the brain responds to emotional stress as if it’s physical stress; 2) identify why stressors affect the female brain and immune health in unique ways, beginning with the onset of puberty; 3) have a firm grasp on the healing power of family connection and resiliency.
12.15
Q&A
12.30
Break
12.45
The Neuroscience of Flourishing: Trauma, Inflammation and Recovery
We will discuss the importance of intervening and utilizing an array of different tools in the toolbox to address trauma, inflammation, and brain health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) identify therapeutic interventions appropriate for treating complex trauma and addressing inflammation and brain health.; 2) utilize evidence-based practices in treatment to build resiliency; 3) have a firm grasp on the healing neurobiological power of the practitioner-client therapeutic relationship; 4) emerge with a deep understanding of the way in which a felt sense of safety profoundly determines both physical and mental health.
13.15
Q&A
14.00
End
FEES (USD)
Bookings close at 5:00am EST Tuesday 15 March
Live Webinar:
$70 (Member $35)
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Includes a recording of the event
CE
This event is accredited by:
- NBCC
Certificates of attendance for 3 hours will be provided.
To receive the full CE credits, you are required to attend 100% of the live event. No partial credit will be given.
This event is NOT accredited by the following organisations:
- ASWB
- NBCC
- NYSED (Psychology)
- NYSED (Psychoanalysis)
- NYSED (Social Workers)
Please note, that this event is not being recorded and no CE test post event will be available and so you will need to attend all of the live event to receive the CE certificate.
Please contact events@conferonline.org for any further questions.
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VENUE
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SCHEDULE
Friday
10.00 EDT Introductions
10.05 How Our Biographies Become Our Biology: How Chronic Stress and Trauma Change the Brain and Behavior
11.00 Q&A
11.15 Break
11.30 A Growing Mental Health Crisis: Emerging Neuroscience on Trauma, Inflammation and Mental Health
12.15 Q&A
12.30 Break
12.45 The Neuroscience of Flourishing: Trauma, Inflammation and Recovery
13.15 Q&A
14.00 End
CONTENT LEVEL
- Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explore how early trauma sets the stage for brain health in adulthood and how chronic stressors in adult life exacerbate these potential ill effects.
- Identify why stressors affect the female brain and immune health in unique ways.
- Explain the link between physical inflammation, brain health, and behaviour.
- Describe the epigenetic effects of chronic stress and trauma on the brain and behaviour.
- Identify therapeutic interventions appropriate for treating complex trauma.
TARGET
AUDIENCE
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Addiction Professionals
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other related mental health professions.
BOOKING CONDITIONS
Regrettably, refunds cannot be given in any circumstances except as follows:
- You cancel in writing to info@conferonline.org 60 days before the first date of the event you have booked, in which case you will be entitled to a 100% refund.
- You cancel in writing to info@conferonline.org 30 days before the first date of the event you have booked, in which case you will be entitled to a 50% refund.
This does not apply to parts of an event such as a seminar within a series but only to a whole event or complete series. You may give your place to another person if you let us know that person's name at least 24 hours before the event begins.
We reserve the right to change a speaker at one of our conferences without offering a refund. However, if a solo presenter cancels we will offer a full refund OR transfer of your fee to another Confer event. If the entire event is canceled we will offer you a full refund.
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