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Anatomy of Intimacy: Healing Traumatic Attachment Injuries and Preventing Relapse in Couples Therapy

Creating lasting change in couples therapy is a crucial clinical goal. Yet a significant relapse rate in couples therapy remains a serious problem affecting our field today. Trauma intensifies the need for secure attachments, yet often simultaneously, destroys one’s ability to trust such bonds. This conference brings together key contributors to new insights about healing traumatic attachments and preventing relapse in couples therapy.

This conference explores:

• The best predictors of success or failure in adult intimate relationships

• The most effective therapeutic interventions which help resolve trauma plus restore mastery and connections.

• Key factors in preventing relapse and advancing lasting relationship change

• Understanding the difference between trauma and attachment injuries in couples relationships

• Meta-emotion work with couples in preventing attachment injuries

• Powerful change events in couples therapy that foster secure attachment

This program includes the following tapes:

(424) Prevention of Relapse in Couples Therapy
(425) The Body Keeps the Score: Integration of Body and Mind in the Treatment of Traumatized People
(426) Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
(427) Meta-Emotion:Possible Basis for Preventing Attachment Injuries in Couples
(428) Transforming Moments in EFT
(429) Dialogues

Program CD Price: $95.00
Homestudy Price: $115.00
Homestudy Credit: available for Home Study Course, 14 hours continuing education
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Total CD's: 11

Attachment, Separation and Loss

Almost two decades after developing his theory, John Bowlby, is now considered the father of the attachment theory. Bowlby’s research has since been extensively studied by others and his ideas and beliefs have been confirmed. He examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation. Bowlby shows that human attachment is an instinctive response to the need for protection against predators, and one as important for survival as nutrition and reproduction. Although Bowlby was primarily focused on understanding the nature of the infant-caregiver relationship, he believed that attachment characterized human experience from “the cradle to the grave.” This program was recorded in London, England 1984.

Program CD Price: $149.00
Homestudy Price: $169.00
Homestudy Credit: 1 hour CE credit
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Current Approaches to the Treatment of Trauma: The Shift from Cognition to Affect Regulation (2-day program))

This 2-DAY PROGRAM explores, means which might affect the regulation of psychological states. We look at early developmental issues, as well as the influence of culture and language on reaction to trauma and on the treatment process.

When trauma occurs, there is a tendency toward disintegration, leading to chaos and rigidity. Also, we look at the integrative mechanisms underlying the process of healing, and toward achieving a flow of energy and information that is at the heart of well-being.

Listeners will learn about the most recent experimental and clinical data generating a paradigm shift into models that emphasize affect regulation and integration as central mechanisms of therapeutic change. Advances in our understanding of the rapid appraisal of emotional information that occurs beneath awareness call attention to the essential role of emotion and the body in the change process. Cognitive interventions that fail to address motivation and emotion are increasingly proving to be limited in their efficacy, and in the problems to which they can be applied.

PRESENTATIONS:

Demystifying the Mechanisms of Trauma: Maladaptive Consequences of Adaptive Bio-Behavioral Reactions to Life Threat - Stephen Porges, PhD

The Central Role of Disintegration in Trauma and of Integration in Healing - Daniel Siegel, MD

Optimal Stress: Stronger at the Broken Places - Martha Stark, MD

Panel Discussion - Messler Davies, Ogden, Schore, Shapiro, Siegel, Stark & van der Kolk

Killing the Patient with Kindness: Explorations on the “Dark Side” of the Therapeutic Relationship - Jody Messler Davies, PhD

Trauma, Attachment and the Body: Expanding the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Affect Tolerance - Pat Ogden, PhD

Working in the Right Brain: A Regulation Model of Clinical Expertise for Treatment of Attachment Trauma - Allan Schore, PhD

Final Panel - Messler Davies, Ogden, Schore, Shapiro, Siegel, Stark & van der Kolk

Program CD Price: $140.00
Homestudy Price: $160.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
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Healing Trauma: Attachment, Trauma, The Brain & The Mind

The old dichotomies of “nature or nurture” and “mind and brain have finally yielded to an appreciation of the complex and powerful ways in which biology and environment continously interact in shaping perception and behavior. Thus, a new paradigm for treatment is now possible; therapy is an invention that changes the brain. A framework for understanding normal growth and development and a re-evaluation and redefinition of trauma is presented. This conference examines: 1) How life experience influences maturation and development of the brain. 2) The effect of both positive and traumatic environmental events in the development of behavior, symptoms, and illness.

The speakers emphasize the ways in which the social environment, including relationships of childhood, adulthood, and treatment, can change aspects of the structure of the brain and ultimately alter the mind. The presenters translate complex brain phenomena into readily understandable models that will have immediate applicability for clinical practice.

OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

Gain experience in using principles of attachment theory

Clarify normal growth and development

Understand how positive and traumatic environmental experiences alter brain function and structure

Learn specific techniques for treating trauma-based pathology

Understand how the use of specific therapeutic techniques can optimize the functioning of the brain and mind

This program includes the following tapes:

(650) Attachment, the Brain and the Developing Mind
(651) Effect of Early Childhood Trauma on Affect Regulation
(652) Trauma, Therapy, and the Brain
(653) Attachment Disturbances and the Development of Psychopathology
(654) Childhood Trauma and Compulsive Punishment of the Self: Breaking the Transgenerational Chain of Child
(655) EMDR - Basic Uses and Future Applications
(656) Affect, Dyadic Regulation and the Body: Transforming Experiences and the Emergence of Healing Affects
(657) The Role of Empathy in Human Development and Psychoanalysis

Program CD Price: $130.00
Homestudy Price: $150.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
Plus sales tax (for CA residents) & Shipping (Additional Shipping Charge for International Orders)
Total CD's: 13