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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRAUMA SERIES
• Psychobiology of Trauma: The Brain-Mind-Body-Connection
• Treating Trauma and Addiction
• Responding to Traumatic Loss: A Psychobiological Approach
• Care for the Caregiver: The Psychobiology of Secondary Trauma
• Advanced Suicide Intervention: A Psychobiological Approach to Clinical Work
with Suicide and Trauma
STRESS AND TRAUMA IN THE WORKPLACE
• Primary and Secondary Trauma in the Workplace
• Resilience and Wellness
• Compassion Fatigue: When Helping Hurts
GRIEF AND LOSS
• Trauma, Family Systems and the Brain-Mind-Body Connection
• Treating Suicidal Adolescents in a Family Context
PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF TRAUMA SERIES The extraordinary integration of knowledge in fields of neuroscience, emotion, attachment and trauma presents health and human services professionals with challenges about how to use new knowledge in our work. This series of workshops is designed to provide understanding and skills for applying this exciting integration of theories in trauma work.
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This new 2-day workshop teaches about evolutionary biology, recent advances in neuroscience and how our brains function within the framework of trauma and traumatic stress. Our brains, nervous systems and bodies are affected by both chronic stress and by acute or traumatic experiences which result in a variety of physical and mental health conditions. Participants will learn a practical framework for understanding trauma and its effects on our brains, bodies and emotional systems, as well as basic principles and strategies that practicitoners can use immediately in working psychobiologically with clients to help them integrate trauma experiences without re-traumatization.
- Specialized workshops are available to help social service agencies, school staff and other professionals to utilize the principles of this approach in their work.
- 1-page workshop flyers available by email.
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This workshop explores core beliefs about the connections between trauma and addiction including recent advances in neuroscience, evolutionary biology and psychology, and how our brains function within the framework of trauma and addiction. Dependency and addiction are explored from a psychobiological perspective and are seen initially as ways of regulating the nervous system following trauma (especially early relationship trauma) and possible physiological and psychological addiction. Somatic principles and strategies for dealing with trauma and addiction are provided.
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Losses that are sudden and unexpected, involve violence, preventability, horror and destruction of human bodies, and the loss of a child are traumatic deaths . Losing a loved one in traumatic circumstances is complicated by many factors that may interfere with so-called normal processes of grieving. The issues of trauma often have to be addressed first, or at least together with issues associated with grief. Dealing with the psychobiological components of traumatic loss is important in dealing with especially acute grief symptoms which can last, or recur frequently during the first year following a traumatic loss. This workshop will assist participants to learn about traumatic loss and grief, including working with the trauma elements from a psychobiological perspective.
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This workshop teaches an integrated approach for understanding, recognizing and managing the impact of working with traumatized clients- including physicians, nurses, emergency responders, mental health clinicians, etc. Participants will learn about current models of secondary trauma including Vicarious Traumatization and Compassion Fatigue. Central to this workshop is the understanding of the primacy of psychophysiology and neurobiology in our responses to both primary and secondary trauma. Presentations and experiential exercises will facilitate participant learning of practical somatic and psychological strategies that will assist in protecting them from the negative impact of secondary trauma, and knowing when they need to seek help.
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- Specialized workshops are available for health care workers (including physicians), social workers/human services workers, and emergency personnel.
- 1-page flyers available by email.
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This advanced workshop blends a neuro-psychobiological framework with the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) model (Living Works Inc.) for providing suicide intervention and treatment of depression, PTSD and other anxiety disorders as well as self-harming and suicidal behaviors. It incorporates current neurobiological research and a somatic therapy approach with the ASIST suicide intervention model used in Canada and other countries. (top of page)
- Jeannette has also been an ASIST trainer since 1991.
- 1-page flyers available by email.
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STRESS AND TRAUMA IN THE WORKPLACE SERIES
This series of workshops is designed to provide health and mental health professionals and other human services workers with an awareness of the impact of secondary traumatic stress/vicarious trauma, what to do about it and how to protect against further damage. The workshops integrate theories of burnout, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, and resiliency with practical strategies for personal and organizational wellness.
- Primary and Secondary Trauma in the Workplace
- Resilience and Wellness
- Compassion Fatigue
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This series of workshops will provide participants with an understanding of loss and grief, particularly complicated and traumatic loss, and skills to help people dealing with such losses. The intersection of trauma and grief will also be addressed from a psychobiological perspective. Working with special populations including adolescents is included.
- 1-Page flyer available by email.
(top of page)Trauma affects not only individuals but also families. This workshop will explore the impact of trauma on individuals and on family systems from psychobiological and systemic frameworks. Participants will learn how to understand and address individual trauma from a holistic mind-body perspective and a solution-focused family therapy approach to address the broader systemic picture.
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This workshop explores the connections between adolescent suicidal behavior and trauma, loss and change, often clearly related to family issues. Trauma may involve medical procedures, accidents, significant losses as well as abuse, neglect and less than optimal emotional availability of parents (often associated with parental depression, bereavement, etc.) Participants will learn about the relationships between trauma, family dynamics and the development of adolescent self-harming behaviors, including disordered eating, self-mutilating and suicidal behaviors. A comprehensive and practical risk assessment and treatment framework will be provided based on identifying family strengths and resilience, systemic family therapy principles, and a psychobiological approach to trauma and its treatment.
Training has been facilitated in association with:
- CTI (Canadian Training Institute, Toronto, ON)
- Living Works Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Fisher & Associates
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