Janina Fisher – Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity in the Treatment of Trauma

Outline

WHAT TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES CAN YOU REMEMBLEVE?

• Results of the Brain scan research
• Narrative memory centres are blocked
• Activated implicit memories: Intense emotions and body sensations, impulses and intrusive images

IMPLICIT and PROCEDURAL MEMORY SYTEMS

• How can we tell if we are recalling without having a story?
• State-Particular memory and Triggers that can cause trauma
• Neuroplasticity and Survival under Threat

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM & ADAPTATION to TRAUMA

• “Neurons that fire together wire together”
• Trauma symptoms: Kindling and sensitization
• “Stuck’ cases
• Treatment-resistant depression
• Shame and Self-Loathing and numbing and Shutdown
• Clients who can go from crisis-to-crisis

MINDFULNESS-BASED TREATMENTS

• These symptoms are a sign of trouble. the Story is better than the Story
• Introduction to Sensorimotor
• Psychotherapy
• Video: Working with the Body in Treatment

CLINICAL PRACTICES MINDFULNESS

• Ingredients of mindfulness
• Avoid attachment and aversion
• Implicit and Procedural memory

REGULATING TRAUMA-RELATED EMOTIONS REACTIVITY, AUTONOMIC AROUSAL AND RELATED EMOTIONS

• Cognitive resources
• Somatic resources
• Interpersonal neurobiological resources

NEUROPLASTIC CHange: PRINCIPLES

• Avoid problematic patterns of Response
• Mindfully observe and not react
• Try out new actions or reactions
• You can practice a new pattern until it becomes automatic

NEUROPLASTIC PRINCIPLES TO TALK THERAPY

• Practice, practice, practice!
• Notice, notice, notice the Results
• As it happens, encode change

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