Trauma, Inflammation, and Recovery
Insights from Neurobiology
Recorded Friday 18 March 2022
With Donna Jackson Nakazawa
CE Credits: 3 hours
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.
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.
READ MORE...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.
CE – Continuing Education (CE) credits for 3 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.
Access to the Talks On Demand runs for 365 days from the date of purchase.
FULL PROGRAM
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.
Q&A
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.
Q&A
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.
Q&A
FEES (USD)
Includes: 1 year’s access, test and CE Certificate of Attendance, subtitles and transcript
INDIVIDUAL
$78 (or $39 Confer member)
GROUP RATE
$50pp in groups of over 10 (please apply to accounts@confer.uk.com)
CE
Continuing Education (CE) credits for 3 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate. You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.
This Talk On Demand is accredited by:
- NBCC
This Talk On Demand is NOT accredited by the following organisations:
- ASWB
- NYSED (Psychology)
Please contact events@conferonline.org for any further questions.
Confer has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7136. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Confer is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
SCHEDULE
00:05:36
How Our Biographies Become Our Biology
01:01:07
Q&A
01:13:20
A Growing Mental Health Crisis
01:59:51
Q&A
02:17:19
The Neuroscience of Flourishing
02:51:36
Q&A
03:34:03
End
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.