Trauma, Inflammation, and Recovery
Insights from Neurobiology
NOW CLOSED
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Friday 18 March 2022
A Live Webinar with Donna Jackson Nakazawa
CPD Credits: 3.5 hours
- Includes a recording of the event with access for a year (14 days post the event)
- Bookings close at 9:00am GMT Tuesday 15 March
Recent discoveries in neuroscience tell us that body and brain are constantly responding to perceived threats from our environment, deciding – on a cellular level – whether we are safe or not. How secure we feel in the world around us profoundly affects not only our physical and immune health, but our brain’s immune health, which, in turn, determines our mental wellbeing.
READ MORE...In this seminar, we will explore how early trauma sets the stage for brain health in adulthood, how chronic stressors in adult life exacerbate these potential ill effects, and the latest scientific understanding on the biophysical link between trauma, inflammation, and mental health. Participants will also learn the latest neuroscience on why chronic stressors and adversity affect the female brain and immune system in unique ways, and how this gender difference first manifests in puberty, playing a role in higher rates of mental health disorders and autoimmunity in girls and women.
We will discuss how these myriad factors contribute to depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, and other mental health concerns in all patients, and most importantly why understanding these key emerging findings in neuroscience and neuroimmunology are crucial to intervening and treating mental health disorders.
FULL PROGRAMME
14.00 GMT
Introductions
14.05
How Our Biographies Become Our Biology: How Chronic Stress and Trauma Change the Brain and Behavior
In this session, participants will learn how early trauma sets the stage for brain health in adulthood, how chronic stressors in adult life exacerbate these potential ill effects, and the latest scientific understanding of the biophysical link between trauma, inflammation, and mental health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) have a firm grasp of the current understanding of how trauma, adversity, and uncertainty affect brain health; 2) understand the epigenetic effects of chronic stress and trauma on the brain, behaviour, and mental health; and 3) understand the link between physical inflammation, brain health, and behaviour.
15.00
Q&A
15.15
Break
15.30
A Growing Mental Health Crisis: Emerging Neuroscience on Trauma, Inflammation and Mental Health
In this session, we will discuss how the body and brain constantly respond to perceived threats from our environment, and decide, on a cellular level, whether we are safe, or unsafe. We will delve into emerging neuroscience on the cellular link between our physical and mental health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) understand why the brain responds to emotional stress as if it’s physical stress; 2) identify why stressors affect the female brain and immune health in unique ways, beginning with the onset of puberty; 3) have a firm grasp on the healing power of family connection and resiliency.
16.15
Q&A
16.30
Break
16.45
The Neuroscience of Flourishing: Trauma, Inflammation and Recovery
We will discuss the importance of intervening and utilizing an array of different tools in the toolbox to address trauma, inflammation, and brain health. After this session, participants will be able to: 1) identify therapeutic interventions appropriate for treating complex trauma and addressing inflammation and brain health.; 2) utilize evidence-based practices in treatment to build resiliency; 3) have a firm grasp on the healing neurobiological power of the practitioner-client therapeutic relationship; 4) emerge with a deep understanding of the way in which a felt sense of safety profoundly determines both physical and mental health.
17.15
Q&A
18.00
End