Jennifer Sweeton – 2-Day Mastery Course on Neuroscience Informed Therapy

This recording will bring together science and biology in order to help you with your anxiety, depression and treatment of trauma, substance abuse, or chronic pain.

Jennifer Sweeton – 2-Day Mastery Course on Neuroscience Informed Therapy

Neuroscience has provided us with amazing insights into brain function and how it affects our physical and psychological well-being.-being. Yet in-depth studies on Mental health professionals may have difficulty understanding the brain. “Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex” Most people don’t understand what it means.

You face more than just terminology. How can you overcome the challenges of applying complex scientific and biological information in your clinical practice? How does neuroscience help you when you’re face-To-Face to face meeting clients on Stress, depression, addiction, and other problems they are faced with every day?

This recording will bring together science and biology in order to help you with your anxiety, depression and treatment of trauma, substance abuse, or chronic pain.

Better still, you’ll go beyond the biological mechanisms that underlie various disorders with detailed instruction on Actual treatment strategies that you can share with your clients. Through case studies, experiential exercises, and brief lectures you’ll learn to individualize interventions based in Mindfulness Based Cognitive TherapyTreatment of mood disorders, trauma, addictions and attachments using Somatic, Attachment and Somatic Psychologies.

Better still, you’ll have the opportunity to practice the application of what you’ve learned under the skilled supervision of our instructor, and take home detailed handouts allowing their immediate incorporation into your clinical work.

Discover how neuroscience understanding can transform the way you see and work with clients.

1. Analyze the role of the nervous system in mental health disorders and communicate how this knowledge impacts the clinician’s choice of therapeutic intervention.
2. Psychoeducational methods that make it easy for clients to understand the neurobiology behind mental health conditions are a good option.
3. Mental health professionals should understand neuroscience and neuroanatomy to foster motivation and encourage engagement in therapy.
4. Analyze the research on Mindfulness and how it can be used in conjunction with treatment for depression.
5. Discuss how memory malleability affects your treatment of clients who have traumatic memories.
6. Find out how neurobiology of Addiction can help clients with substance use disorders set realistic goals.
7. In trauma symptomology, establish the neurobiological fight or flight response.
8. How attachment influences key brain networks is important for understanding how to treat mood disorders and affect regulation.
9. Discuss how research on the relationship between diet, mental health, and other disorders could influence treatment strategies.
10. Evaluate how an understanding of the neurodynamics of habit formation informs the therapist’s clinical approach to foster behavioral change.
11. Assess the most recent scientific research on You can learn gratitude and the limitations of using positive psychology-based approaches.
12. Explain how mindfulness practices can help clients relax and reduce stress.

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DAY 1.

Understand the Brain’s Reward System

• Habit formation & maintenance
• Why the brain doesn’t always choose well
  • The conscious brain myth
  • Brain-dictated actions
  • Routines vs. impulse
  • Reward & habit
  • Coping & stress
• Brain-wise change
  • Strategie for impulse
  • Serotonin
  • Solidifying Change – From neurons to brain regions
  • From state to trait: Short experiences that lead to lasting change
• Willpower
  • Willpower: Where does it come from?
  • Role exercise
  • Mindfulness
  • A short willpower exercise

The Body’s Impact on The Brain: Manage Stress and Anxiety by Altering Your Physical Status

• Body-Brain-Mind Talk
• The Vagal Nerve
• Variability in the heart rate
• Interoception
• Build stress resiliency & emotional regulation
• Deep relaxation, breath, posture
• The Body-Brain-Mind connection in all treatment approaches

The Brain’s Impact on The Body

• Chronic pain, nociceptors or neurotransmitters
• The centralization and dorsolateral frontal lobe.
• Stress can have a negative impact on your health on Pain and inflammation
• Measurement of pain
• CBT interventions to reappraise your pain
• Pain catastrophizing
• Biofeedback
• Mind-For pain relief, body treatments

How Relationships Can Change Your Brain: Neuroscience Attachment

• Neuropeptides – Behavior and Oxytocin
• Social brain healing
• Storytelling and its importance
• The brain is in love
• Long-term brain behavior-Term love
  • It’s a matter of novelty versus habit
• Engendering secure attachment
  • Key brain networks
  • Build compassion & empathy

DAY 2

From a depressed brain to a resilient one

• How the depressed brain becomes stuck
  • Hemispheric lateality
  • Cytokines & depression
• The neuroscience of guilt & shame
• Opposing routes
• Brain intercommunication
• Gratitude – neurochemistry & practice
• Neurofeedback: Research on direct communication with your brain

Trauma Therapy and the Science of Memory

• Grounding
• Mindfulness and meditation: Titrating emotions
• Trauma: The fight/flight/freeze response
• Executive functioning
• Implicit memories
  • Dual awareness
  • Brain savvy narratives
• Breath/Movement/Awareness
• How to deal with shame during trauma

The Addicted Mind: Clinical Implications for the Neuroscience Of Craving

• The reward center plays a key role
• The neuroscience of craving
  • Mindfulness & movement based supports
  • Identifying false sanctuaries & underlying beliefs
• Dual awareness
• Reduce conflict and avoid risk
• The Aging Brain
• Over the course of your life, brain changes occur.
• Memory enhancement strategies
• Buffering from Alzheimer’s Disease
• Is Mindfulness a neuroprotective strategy?

Nutrition & the Brain: We Are What We Eat!

• For optimal brain function, nutrition is key
• The brain on Sugar
• Nutraceuticals
• The creation of an inter-disciplinary team

Potential Treatment Risks and the Limitations of Neuroscientific Studies

• fMRI imaging- Blood flow vs. Neuronal Activity
• How only looking at brain activations is insufficient to see the whole picture
• Study size and validity of neuroscientific studies
• Research on animals – can it be applied directly to humans?
• Psychotherapeutic techniques have specific risks and limitations

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