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Exploring the Essential Features of “Jennifer Sweeton – Brain-Based Therapy & Practical Neuroscience: Attachment & Emotion Regulation – PESI”
Speaker: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Format: Audio and Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
- Apply brain-based proven treatments for disorders:
Depression
Anxiety
OCD
PTSD
Mood disorders - Improve treatment outcomes through neuroscience, evidence-based treatment and attachment theory
- Learn which traditional psychotherapy methods are effective and which are counter-therapeutic
- Discover how to talk to clients about their brain
This seminar focuses on the revolution and sea change occurring in psychotherapy. It describes how to conceptualize psychotherapy based on an integrative model that discards the need for the “schools of psychotherapy.” Special attention will be on how to talk about the brain in therapy to motivate clients to try evidenced-based interventions.
Watch this seminar and learn how to optimize therapy for a variety of clients by harnessing the latest knowledge from neuroscience; developmental psychology; psychotherapy research; evidence-based practice; attachment research; and psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches. Take home practical strategies for anxiety disorders such as OCD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and PTSD; as well as for depression.
Speaker
Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and internationally-recognized expert on trauma, anxiety, and the neuroscience of mental health. Dr. Sweeton has been practicing EMDR for nearly a decade and has treated a variety of populations using EMDR and other memory reconsolidation approaches, including combat veterans, individuals with PTSD and complex trauma, and those suffering from treatment-resistant anxiety. She completed her doctoral training at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, and the National Center for PTSD. Additionally, she holds a master’s degrees in affective neuroscience from Stanford University, and studied behavioral genetics at Harvard University.
Dr. Sweeton resides in the greater Kansas City area, where she owns a group private practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates. She is a past president of the Oklahoma Psychological Association and holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is the president of the Greater Kansas City Psychological Association. Dr. Sweeton offers psychological services to clients in Oklahoma, Kansas, and internationally, and is a sought-after trauma and neuroscience expert who has trained thousands of mental health professionals in her workshops.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Sweeton is in private practice. She has an employment relationship with the Oklahoma City VAMC. Dr. Sweeton receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Sweeton has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Target Audience
Counselors, Psychologists, Case Managers, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
Outline
- Psychotherapy in the 21st Century
The integrative approach—no more need for the “schools” of psychotherapy
Variables in successful treatment
Outcomes management
BASE (Brain, Alliance, System and Evidence-Based Practices) - What Neuroscience Offers to Therapy
Emotion: laterality and lobes
The role of attention and affect regulation: prefrontal lobes
How to change the brain in successful therapy: neuroplasticity
New neurons in the brain: neurogenesis
The social brain, empathy and attachment - Developmental Neurobiology Brain Development
Deprived vs. enriched environments
Temperament and attachment in therapy
Durability of attachment schema into adolescence and adulthood
The development of the adolescent brain
The aging brain - The Role of Memory
The fundamental role of memory in therapy
Implicit and explicit memory and how they can become dysregulated
Hippocampus and amygdala dynamics
Memory improvement techniques - The Stress Response System
Historical models and the current view
A balanced perspective of stress: allostasis
When stress breaks down the system: allostatic load
Adverse childhood experiences and how they affect adulthood - Working with the Neurodynamics of Anxiety Disorders: Tame the Amygdala
GAD
Panic
OCD
PTSD - Working with the Neurodynamics of Depression
Limitations of the neurotransmitter/medication models
The role of labeling emotions: hemisphere laterality
Cytokines—sickness behavior
Activity reward system—behavior activation
Mindfulness - Healthy Habits—Planting SEEDS
Sleep hygiene
Exercise—BDNF—miracle grow
Education—cognitive
Diet—amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins
Social medicine
Mindfulness
Objectives
- Communicate key nervous system structures, functions and pathways.
- Predict brain alterations that occur from anxiety, trauma and stress, substance abuse, and depression.
- Support how commonly applied treatments such as CBT, DBT, dynamic therapy, meditation and hypnosis can foster healthy brain change.
- Break down neuroplasticity and types of experiences that elicit it.
- Apply interventions that can be used to return the nervous system to natural balance using methods drawn from neural-feedback, psychodynamics, mindfulness, sensory awareness, hypnosis and bodywork.
- Demonstrate specific techniques that enhance attention, interoception, affect regulation and sensory-motor awareness.
- Practice six principles that guide you when including the brain during treatment.
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