Credits: Jorgensen, Ryan. Projections from MKUltra Canvas Print. 2017, photograph. Tasmania.
Image credit: Jorgensen, Ryan. Projections from MKUltra Canvas Print. 2017, photograph. Tasmania.

Trauma, Inflammation, and Recovery

Insights from Neurobiology

Recorded Friday 18 March 2022

With Donna Jackson Nakazawa

CPD Credits: 3.5 hours

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.

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.

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SPEAKERS

Donna Jackson Nakazawa,

FULL PROGRAMME

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.

Q&A

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.

Q&A

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.

Q&A

FEES

Includes: 1 year’s access, test and CPD Certificate of Attendance, subtitles and transcript

INDIVIDUAL

£60 (or £48 Confer member)

GROUP RATE

£50pp in groups of over 10 (please apply to accounts@confer.uk.com)

CPD

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 3.5 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate. You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.

SCHEDULE

00:05:36
How Our Biographies Become Our Biology

01:01:07
Q&A

01:13:20
A Growing Mental Health Crisis

01:59:51
Q&A

02:17:19
The Neuroscience of Flourishing

02:51:36
Q&A

03:34:03
End