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Exploring the Essential Features of “Kate Cohen-Posey – Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Anxiety, Trauma, Impulse Control, Depression and Relationships”
Description
Join Dr. Kathy Seifert, one of the nation’s leading experts in the field of attachment and trauma disorders in children, and learn proven techniques you can use to help children look at their trauma with new eyes, reducing the emotional impact of the trauma in the present day. You’ll learn how to identify the outward signs of trauma and how you can use the experience of trauma to help children develop skills and feel stronger.
By completing this seminar recording you will uncover many factors that can alter the normal development of children and learn the warning signs of attachment problems. Walk away with multiple treatment options you can provide to children and their families to counteract trauma and anger in their lives.
Dr. Kathy Seifert is a leading psychotherapist, author, speaker and researcher who specializes in family violence and trauma. She will provide you with the latest prevention, assessment and treatment strategies for attachment and trauma in children and families.
Speaker
Dr. Kathy Seifert, PhD
Kathryn Seifert, PhD, is a psychologist in Maryland and one of the leading experts in the fields of multi-victim violence, bullying, trauma and mental health related violence in the United States. Dr. Seifert specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals who are at risk for violence and those who are emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, victimized, delinquent, and/or suffering from attachment disorders.
Dr. Seifert has appeared on CNN, Discover ID, and Fox News and consults with numerous public agencies. She testifies in courts as an expert on the maltreatment of children and has a blog, Stop the Cycle.
Dr. Seifert has written two books, How Children Become Violent (Acanthus, 2006) and Youth Violence: Theory, Prevention, and Intervention (Springer, 2015). In these two books, she wrote about the groundbreaking research such as the ACE’s research out of the CDC, connecting child maltreatment, delays in the development of coping skills, and youthful violent behaviors. Dr. Seifert also developed the CARE-2, Child and Adolescent Risk/Needs Evaluation.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kathryn Seifert is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eastern Shore Psychological Services; and CARE-2, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Seifert receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Kathryn Seifert has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Target Audience
Counselors, Psychologists, Case Managers, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Describe three negative effects of trauma on children’s development
- Identify the best method to recognize children with attachment problems
- List three trauma reduction techniques
- Name five risk factors that place children at higher risk for violence
- Describe how to match the needs of the child and the family with the treatment techniques
- Describe how healthy families support healthy development of children
Outline
Overview
- Child Development & Attachment
Core concepts of child development and how they are affected by trauma
Vital functions of secure attachment
Major symptoms of disrupted attachment
Assessment
- Children
6 symptom categories
Traumatized brain
3 attachment patterns
Holistic assessment practices
Assessing development - Parents
Awareness of emotional and environmental triggers
Marital relationships and co-parenting
Parenting attitudes and competencies
Parent mental health and stability - Family System
Structure—family systems work
Ongoing patterns
Support systems
Stressors and stress management
Treatment
- Focus of Intervention
Child
Family relationships
Community systems
Rules, roles and boundaries - Integration of Interventions
Family therapy
CBT and skill building involving parents and schools
Longevity and relationships
Story-telling and psycho-drama—healing trauma by changing the end of the story
Movement and rhythm
Building confidence and competence - Applications
Foster care
Departments of Social Services and Juvenile Services
Acute care and residential treatment programs
Outpatient settings with multiple agency involvement - Facilitate the Healing Process
The trauma cycle—fight, flight and freeze
Unfreezing
Relaxing and reducing fear and arousal responses
Corrective developmental experience
Creating attachment
Using structure attunement and empathy - Therapeutic Methods
4 attachment cycles that can occur in the first year of life
Rapport
Commitment
Building relationship
Inner child metaphor
Family systems therapy
Building reciprocity
Moral development
Multimodal approaches and longevity - Parenting
4 aspects of providing a secure base
Reinterpreting child’s behavior
Facilitating 4 competencies—knowledge, skills, judgment and self-control
3 steps to remaining calm and composed
Creating a sense of belonging
Reducing and managing family conflicts
Creating a healing environment
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